Grade 4 Long Division Lesson Plan involving videos!

Grade 4: Number Sense and Numeration

This is a lesson for a grade 4 class to teach the concept of Long Division.

For this lesson 2 videos found on YouTube will be used. The teacher could either show them in class and give students the links to also view at home OR could have students view the videos at home, after school in an attempt at the flipped classroom method of teaching.  Either way, video is being used in the teaching of this math skill.

The first video will be showed before teaching: 
• The Steps to Long Division

The second video will be showed after teaching:
• How to teach Long Division- The Dance Craze Way

Learning Goal
To learn how divide numbers using the method of long division on paper and with mainpulatives. 

Curriculum Expectations
Overall Expectations:

• By the end of Grade 4, students will:  solve problems involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of single- and multi-digit whole numbers, and involving the addition and subtraction of decimal numbers to tenths and money amounts, using a variety of strategies;

Specific Expectations: Operational Sense

• By the end of Grade 4, students will: divide two-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers, using a variety of tools (e.g. concrete materials, drawings and student-generated algorithms).

Assessment Strategies

• After showing the first video and teaching the concepts of long division have students write various division questions that include dividing two-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers. Then compile these questions to create worksheets for students to complete on their own. Students will be assessed on their ability to understand how to create a division question that divides two- digit whole numbers by one-digit. Students will also be marked for knowledge and understanding of the process of long division by marking their worksheets. 
• After teaching show the second video and have students work in groups to create their own song or jingle to explain the steps of long division. They can use the strategies taught and can even change the words to a song they know.
• Assess students on their knowledge of the steps needed to complete a long division question by the method they sing in their presentation.

Modification/Accommodations 

• If students do not have access to a home computer, allow students to view videos in the classroom or at a computer in the school library.
• Create a PowerPoint presentation and written note that students can read or follow along to for clarification of how to do long division. 
• Prepare examples that students can look at for clarification as well.
• Have struggling students start off with division of one-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers.
• Have higher achieving students create questions dividing two-digit whole numbers by two-digit and three-digit whole numbers.
• Have manipulatives that students can use to divide numbers when completing questions.

Wrap-up
Recap the process of long division and have students share their long division songs or jingles to the class.