1st Grade Place Value Lesson Plan

Topic: Place Value

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to identify place value and use place value understanding to solve problems involving numbers up to 100.

Materials

• Numbers up to 100
• Whiteboards and markers
• Calculators (optional)

Warm-up

• Review counting through 100 by ones, tens, and twenties.Ask students to raise their hand when they reach a number that has a value of 10 (e.g. "Who reaches the number 10? Who reaches the number 20? Who reaches the number 30?")

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of place value by saying, "Today we are going to learn about the different places in a number that represent different numbers. The first place is the ones place, which represents the number 1. The second place is the tens place, which represents the number 10. The third place is the hundreds place, which represents the number 100. The fourth place is the thousands place, which represents the number 1,000. The fifth place is the millions place, which represents the number 1,000,000."
• Use manipulatives or real objects to model each place value, counting out the corresponding number of objects in each place.
• Ask students to name the place value of each number they see.

Guided Practice

• Cut out a number of one-inch squares of construction paper.
• Have students glue the squares onto a blank grid to create a place value chart.
• Show the number 175 on the board and have students use their place value chart to find the ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands places.
• Ask students to find the place value of other numbers on the board, such as 127 and 16,472.
• Ask students to share their answers with a partner and help each other if they get stuck.

Independent Practice

• Have students use the place value chart to add and subtract numbers. For example, they could add 175 and 127 to find that -382 is in the thousands place.
• Encourage students to use their physical place value chart, not just writing the numbers on a piece of paper.

Closure

• Review the concept of place value, including the names of the places and how to add and subtract numbers in those places.
• Ask students to share any questions or challenges they faced during the lesson.

Assessment:

• Observation during the independent practice activity
• Collect and assess the place value posters created by students.
• Administer the place value quiz to assess student understanding of the concepts covered.