By the end of this lesson, the students should be able to use benchmark fractions in order to identify fractions as being near zero, one half, or one whole, devise rules or generalizations, by analyzing fractions close to different benchmarks, for how to know whether a fraction is close to the benchmarks 0, 1/2, and 1), and use benchmark fractions to compare fractions with different numerators and denominators. This lesson plan includes objectives, essential questions, standards, evaluation methods, materials needed, and the procedural steps for the attention getter, summary directive, group instruction/demonstration, guided practice, independent practice, assessment, and closure. This lesson plan includes several hands on activities that are engaging and provide several visual aide ideas so that the students can master the conceptual understanding of comparing fractions by reasoning about their size in relation to benchmark fractions.