Understanding place value is critical to the Common Core Standards for second grade. Without a concrete understanding, students may not fully grasp the meaning of the digits.
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
Understanding how to interpret data by its shape, spread, and center helps students to understand statistics.
In this lesson, students will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
In this lesson, students write summaries of researched information in their own words and quote text accurately.
Students create investigations to determine the parts of a seed and then research in order to describe the purpose of those parts.
SWBAT identify the name of the month, number of the day, and number of the year on a calendar. SWBAT explore math tools, and will demonstrate their ability to count 20 objects.
This lesson will help students recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows time to focus explicitly on sentences and what they need, while also keeping students engaged and showing them how we always move from left to right.
Students will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.
In this lesson, the teacher will read a book about different landforms. The children will learn about the features of the landforms and how they were shaped by natural forces. Then text features will be discussed. The children will then explain how a text feature, such as images or diagrams, helped them to understand the scientific content more clearly.
This lesson helps build a strong culture of problem solvers, and it can work as an introduction in 1st grade or as a Kindergarten lesson!
In this lesson, students will write an informational paper by comparing fictional text and a non fiction text about boa constrictors.
Celebration words can be used to help students review and practice beginning sounds. This lesson will help students recognize and produce the initial sound of a given word. Included are an assessment checklist, videos of the lesson in progress, samples of student work, and a printable book.
What do 6th grade students really need to know about Algebra?
Area is the concept of covering a region with "unit squares".
The purpose of the lesson is to introduce students to what causes wind and how it can be measured. Students will create a wind gauge and collect data on "wind speed". Detailed instructions are included as well as examples of the lesson from an actual classroom.
A lesson for students extend their understanding of the place value system. Students will learn how to define a digit and also identify a digit located in the ones place, the tens place, and the 100s place.
I can create polygons and find the perimeter by using the unit squares on my paper
Students work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory lesson. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.
Young learners really struggle with multi-meaning words. Using Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, students will become familiar with 'dream' as the concept of 'dreaming' in the sense of a want rather than just something they do when they sleep. Included in this lesson is a video link, printable cut-outs for an art project, and a writing prompt.