Interacting with polygons and testing the definitions can be engaging, fun and build a powerful, individualized understanding.
Connecting the dots between Geometry and the Coordinate Grid.
The ability to making informed decisions about nutrition is built on using multiplication, division, and an understanding of grams and portion size.
Smart Board technology will assist students with metric system conversions.
Students will be using ratio tables to convert units of metric measurements and looking for patterns to help make the problems easier.
In this lesson, students play a compare and contrast game and Pictionary to practice their science vocabulary.
What do students already know about integers, rational numbers, and the coordinate plane? What gaps do students have in their understanding? Students take the Unit 3 pretest in order to inform instruction.
Practicing math problems is a great way to study for a math test!
Students will use the engineering process to design a windbreak to save a house from wind erosion. Included in this lesson are detailed instructions, a video of the lesson in action, a list of materials, and a printable lab sheet.
Students explore the faces, bases, edges, and vertices of prisms and pyramids to help develop the concepts of volume and surface area.
SWBAT use objects to act out ordering numbers to solve story problems.
A teacher created lesson plan to help students conquer how to make connections between directions in an effort to create something. This activity will have students sharing recipes and understanding why recipes should be followed in sequence.
I love graphic organizers. My students will increase their vocabularies by learning more 2D shape terms through the use of a graphic organizer.
In this direct instruction lesson, students draw sketches in their science notebooks in order to make sense of wave properties. Resources include a slideshow presentation on the properties of waves and multiple examples of student work.
Students create a model using materials to build a barrier or protective wall to prevent your home from flooding during a storm surge.
In this lesson, students will experience different types of publishing in order to strengthen their motivation and cultivate pride in their work. After utilizing the writing process, students will type out their writing on a computer. Included is a tool to help students have success using the computer, and pictures of final drafts created by the students.
Students will be able to compare and contrast two non-fiction books with a similar theme - in this case, plant life cycles. Extensive resources included such as worksheets, samples of student work, assessment ideas, extension activities, and videos of the lesson in action.
Students have a tough time differentiating between punctuation marks when writing and especially when reading. It is important that we give students explicit instruction on punctuation to allow them to become more fluent in using them correctly. In this short lesson, students will determine which punctuation should be used in certain scenarios. Included in this lesson are a punctuation practice chart, a punctuation practice lesson video, and s sample of student work.
A lesson plan for helping students to solve real world problems by using their mathematical tools.
Students increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.