Educator Resources for Flower Power
In Flower Power, students must use their knowledge of fractions and decimals to make as much money as possible through growing and harvesting valuable and exotic flowers. Flower stems must be ordered with large fraction blooms at the top and small fraction blooms at the bottom. Later in the game, the blooms display decimals. When a stem grows to its full height of seven blooms, it will stop growing and students have the opportunity to either harvest it or wait and allow it to be pollinated by a bee. Students can develop more interesting varieties by growing simple flowers and leaving them to pollinate and seed. New and improved strains will germinate from perfectly-ordered flowers. Guide students to understand strategies for balancing pollination and harvesting to achieve a high score as they demonstrate mastery of fractions and decimals.
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Ordering Fractions and Decimals Lesson Plan: Flower Power Game
Grades: 3-8
In this lesson plan which is adaptable for grades 3 through 8, students use BrainPOP resources and hands-on collaborative activities to order fractions and decimals. Students then practice and apply fraction and decimal concepts through online interactive game play.
Common Core State Standards Alignment:
3rd Grade
CCSS.Math.Cont.3.NF.A.1 Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
CCSS.Math.Cont.3.NF.A.3d Compare two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.”
4th Grade
CCSS.Math.Cont.4.NF.A.2 Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators, e.g., by creating common denominators or numerators, or by comparing to a benchmark fraction such as 1/2. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two fractions refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual fraction model.”
CCSS.Math.Cont.4.NF.C.7 Compare two decimals to hundredths by reasoning about their size. Recognize that comparisons are valid only when the two decimals refer to the same whole. Record the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, or <, and justify the conclusions, e.g., by using a visual model.”
