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Fish Eyes Sort
Students sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.
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Gingerbread Genius
Students sort gingerbread men, then identify the sorting rule that they used.
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Present Hunt
Learners identify and match pictures of three dimensional shapes while playing a board game with peers. They take turns with their partners in spinning the spinner and moving to the next space on the game board that shows the same shape.
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Following Specs.
Students utilyze a set number of DUPLO blocks to build a free-form construction project.
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Geoboards
Students describe shapes to their classmates using specific properties and practice making triangles on geoboards. In this geoboards lesson plan, students use string on the geoboards.
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Extending Pattern Understandings
Students use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. For this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.
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The Great Button Sort
Young scholars practice figuring out how items have been sorted. They also sort buttons in small cooperative groups. They color and sort their own paper buttons and then give their button sort to another student to see if he or she can...
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Numbers Up
Learners use Legos to build representations of a variety of numbers. They then sort and order their representations and pair them with the written number.
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Guess My Piece -working with Legos
Students participate in guessing their partners' hidden Lego pieces from their verbal clues. They work in partners to accomplish their goals. They are meeting a variety of math standards by completing this lesson.
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Go LEGO!
Young scholars utilize LEGO's to replace cards for a game that replicates "Go Fish".
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Creating Polygons
Learners describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons instructional activity, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
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Our Favorite Pet
Students each have a turn, telling the class his or her favorite pet. The choices are cat, dog, fish or bird. Using the computer, the information from the tally be recorded on a spreadsheet and bar graph.
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Taking Numbers Personally
Students are given a card with a number on it. They match up with other students holding a different representation of the same number. They create a simple story problem.