For my resource I used the MathKeys computer software program.  I had my students draw a graph and use different images as stamps.  They took one stamp and drew that image a number of times ranging from one to ten across the line.  On the next line they did the same thing but with a different image.  Then they counted up the total number of images on the graph and wrote that number four times along the bottom of the graph.  They drew each image beside each number to represent that number.  Then they counted up the total number of image one and wrote that number beside the image and above the total number of images.  If they had seven stars and there were twenty images in all they would have a picture of the star with the number 7/20 beside of it.  They would do this for each of the four images.  This shows them how part of something can represent a fraction of the whole.  This activity would work best for second grade.
    This software also had a section for doing fractions with bars and circles.  The bars would put a number of blocks and then color in part of the blocks.  The fraction would be the amount shaded in as compared to the whole.  The circle program would take a full circle and you could press on the fraction that you wanted to see.  This helps kids begin to visualize what fractions like 1/2 and 1/4 look like.
    I learned things from myself from using this resource.  At first I did not understand what I was doing when I was stamping the images on the screen.  I closed it down and then went back to it to try and figure it out.  I couldn't see where they were getting the numbers for the fractions.  Once I figured it out, I thought about how good it would be to use with kids.
    I learned that it was hard to teach your college peers on a lower level lesson.  They would either know the material too quickly or you felt that you were not really teaching them anything.  I also learned some different ways to think about fractions.  If you are being asked to decide which is more or which is less, you could do it by making a visual image with a circle and shade in parts or come up with a context for thinking about the problem.  Putting things into a context helps you relate the problem to something that you already know about.