In this lesson students create fraction strips to represent fractions and explore equivalent fractions.
In this lesson, students are identifying fractions in their environment. It is suggested that this lesson is done at the beginning of the fraction unit.
This is a great opening cluster lesson from Tools4NCTeachers. In this lesson, students explore with fraction tiles and make observations and generalizations about fractions. This can also be used to activate prior knowledge in order to see what students know or what misconceptions they already have about fractions. This is remixable.