<p> Title: Learning the Order of Author: Christine S. State: Ohio Operations through the use of Art and Mnemonics</p><p>Grade Span: 3-5 Subject: Mathematics</p><p>Assignment Type: Individual</p><p>Recommended Time Frame: One class period</p><p>Summary of Project: In this lesson, students will be able to follow the four steps in order of operations procedures. Start off your students by creating flipbooks for “PEMDAS” (Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally). While they are working, slip outside the door and put on items to cover yourself. Then come back in and present you are “Aunt Sally.” Pretend to be a crazy old lady, and then ask kids direct questions about what they are writing in their flip books by using a funny voice and being silly. Go outside and take off the items and then come back in the class saying “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.” Continue to come back in and out of the room as yourself and “Aunt Sally.” After students have created the flipbooks, give students a Study Island printable worksheet to complete. The final step is to have your students to take this topic on Study Island.</p><p>Materials and Resources Needed: Whole class Per Group Per Student Study Island Paper Scissors Colored pencils, markers, crayons</p><p>Key Vocabulary Order of operations Parentheses Exponents Expressions</p><p>Implementing the Activity Step A: Fold flipbooks and cut.</p><p>Explain to students how to create a flipbook:</p><p> Fold your paper in half (taco style).</p><p> Fold it in half two more times in the other direction (long way). You should have four sections when completed.</p><p> Cut the three top folds – make sure not to cut the bottom of the flip book. Step B: Mark four sections on your board and have students label their flip books as set out below. (Encourage your students to be creative and color each section.)</p><p>Front of Flip Book</p><p>1 2 3 4 P E M or D A or S</p><p>Inside of Flip Book</p><p>Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally Parentheses Exponents Multiplication or Addition or Division Subtraction Parentheses ( ) or Exponents, i.e., (left to right) (left to right) brackets [ ] powers and square x ÷ + - roots</p><p>Step C: Start your character mode as “Aunt Sally” while students are working. Slip outside your door and put a scarf over your head and come back in pretending you are “Aunt Sally.” Pretend to be a crazy old lady, and then ask kids direct questions about what they are making by changing your voice and acting silly. Go outside and take the scarf off your head. Come back in saying, “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally. She can be so strange. She came into our class today to see how I am teaching. I better go out in the hall and make sure she is gone.”</p><p>Continue going in and out of your class and pretending to be her and then return. Keep repeating this, saying, “Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally.”</p><p>As your children are working on their flip books, encourage them to be creative and color each section. The more creative students can save their projects to work on to fill in the gaps if there is free time, and they would like to add great details. Always encourage students to use their imagination.</p><p>Step D: Have students work through some sample problems using the Order of Operations rules that they have just created in their flipbooks. Explain in detail. At the end, remind the students, “How do I remember it all? PEMDAS!”</p><p>Step E: Print out a worksheet from Study Island. Have students complete the worksheets.</p><p>Step F: Have your students take this topic on Study Island.</p><p>End Result The students will have a flipbook that reminds them the order of operations, as well as an understanding of the order of operations when solving problems or working on numerical expressions. (There is no rubric, as the flipbooks are merely helpful, creative ways for students to learn the order of operations.) For Differentiated Instruction Print out additional worksheets for students that are still struggling. Create a peer-student grouping with students that are struggling and those who have a solid understanding. Students that understand will teach and work with struggling students through each problem.</p><p>Additional Notes <Enter text.></p>