6th Grade Percentage Lesson Plan

Topic: Percentage

Objectives & Outcomes

• Students will be able to define percentage and understand its relation to fractions and decimals.

Materials

• Calculator
• Worksheets with problems related to percentage (for practice and assessment)

Warm-up

• Ask students if they have ever heard of the term "percentage." Ask them to provide a brief definition.
• Display a chart with a list of different percentages (e.g. 10%, 20%, etc.) and ask students to identify which percentage is larger or smaller based on their brief definition of percentage.

Direct Instruction

• Introduce the concept of percentage as a way of expressing a part as a percentage of a whole.
• Use the chart with different percentages to demonstrate how the percentage is based on the size of the whole (e.g. if the whole is 100, a 20% percentage is 20 out of 100, a 50% percentage is 50 out of 100, etc.).
• Explain how the percentage can be used in real-life situations, such as when calculating sales tax or when comparing the performance of different groups (e.g. analyzing the performance of a class as a percentage of the total class population, or comparing the performance of different teams in a competition as a percentage of the total number of teams competing).

Guided Practice

• Have students work in pairs or small groups and provide them with several different scenarios in which they have to calculate a percentage. Have them use the chart with different percentages to calculate the correct percentage for each scenario.
• Go over the answers as a class, discussing how to correctly calculate the percentage in each situation.

Independent Practice

• Have students choose a real-life situation that they are familiar with or come up with their own scenario. Have them create a poster or presentation to show how they would calculate the percentage in their chosen situation.
• Encourage students to be creative and include visuals or explanations to help others understand how they arrived at their answer.

Closure

• As a class, review the steps for calculating a percentage and the meaning of percentages.
• Ask students to share their posters or presentations with the class and discuss any new ideas or insights they had while working on their projects.

Assessment

• Observe students during the independent practice activity and provide feedback on their ability to calculate percentages and explain the meaning of percentages in real-world situations.
• Collect and grade the posters or presentations as a formative assessment of students' understanding of the concept of percentage.