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Ten Red Apples; The Five Senses
A clever lesson designed around an apple awaits your learners. Descriptive words are used to explain what they believe is inside a bag while using their five senses. Students read the story The Apple Pie Tree and are introduced to the...
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The Human Body
Explore the human body through hands-on activities. Young learners will trace their bodies and place cut out body organs in the proper place, print patterns using cut fruit, sing songs about good nutrition, and use their five senses...
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What is It? Susie Sees!
Students explore the five senses. In this cross curriculum five senses lesson, students view an "I Can See Colors" PowerPoint presentation and sort items by color and shape. Students mix primary color paints to create secondary colors,...
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Stick Out Your Tongue
Students explore their sense of taste and recognize good foods to eat. In this tasting lesson plan, students recognize that their tongue has taste buds for different types of tastes. Students create a bar graph showing their favorite...
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Measurement: The Size is Right
Specific learning goals are grouped for different grade levels spanning pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. After preparing the questions and materials, you call a learner to come in front of the class and play the game. Young learners...
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Counting 1 to 5
Students explore number sense by participating in a counting activity. In this whole numbers lesson, students identify the first 5 numbers after 0 and practice writing them in class. Students utilize visual aides to assist them and...
Illustrative Mathematics
Pick Two
Learning to break apart numbers into smaller pairs is a critical step young mathematicians take as they develop their number sense. To practice this skill, children are provided with sets of three numbers and are asked to pick the two...
Illustrative Mathematics
Ordering Numbers
Deepen the number sense of young mathematicians with this unique ordering exercise. Given a list of the numbers 1, 5, 10, 50, and 100, young learners must determine where the numbers from a second list fit in the sequence. To increase...
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Number Patterns
Help your young scholars to identify even and odd numbers. For this number sense lesson, they read the book Madeline and use counters to identify which number has a "partner." Learners write down odd and even numbers on a whiteboard.
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Adding and Subtracting Ten
Developing fluency with basic addition and subtraction is fundamental to the success of all young mathematicians. This four-day lesson series begins with learners using ten-frames and hundreds charts to recognize patterns when adding and...
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Counting, Properties of Numbers, and Reasoning about Numbers
Five days of lessons develop number sense and counting patterns, including odd and even numbers, 5s and 10s, doubles, and ways to make 10. Each session opens with fun finger play to reinforce counting and reasoning about numbers. Various...
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Contaminated Drinking Water
Students predict, experiment, and draw conclusions about the safety of drinking water. In this ecology lesson, students participate in an experiment to determine if they can taste or see contamination in drinking water. Data is collected...
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Building Numbers to 5
Students compose groups of items up to the number 5. In this number 5 lesson plan, students also connect names to numbers, record sizes of groups, and compose and decompose groups.
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Race to 20
And they're off! Working in pairs, young mathematicians roll dice to see who can fill in their double ten-frames first. When students finally fill in their arrays, they create addition number sentences that represent their rolls, helping...
Illustrative Mathematics
Which Number is Greater? Which Number is Less? How do you Know?
When comparing groups of objects, it's easy for children to identify which has more, but it's not so easy for them to explain their reasoning. This simple whole-group activity provides multiple opportunities for learners to compare...
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Fun With Adhesives
Young scholars observe, measure, and record the properties in making objects stick together using science tools. In this science instructional activity, students explore with their senses while mixing flour and water. Additionally, young...
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Ten by Ten
Learners participate in hands-on activities using a hundreds chart and counting toes and fingers. They discover the patterns that are created when counting by ten. After a lecture/demo, students practice by using a worksheet embedded in...
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Counting Zero to Five
Students are introduced to the numerals zero through five. They associate the numeral with the correct number of objects. Students comprehend the quantities zero through five showing "How many?" by counting their fingers or using a...
Illustrative Mathematics
Christina's Candies
Help Christina figure out how many chocolate and lemon candies she has with a lesson on decomposing numbers. When presenting this context to the class, the teacher chooses the total number of candies and the number that are chocolate,...
Ohio Department of Education
Describing and Creating Plane Figures - Grade One
Young mathematicians draw, create, and describe different shapes using triangles. They discuss attributes of the original and created shapes. Pupils classify the created shapes and draw and write in mathematics journals to communicate...
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Number Recognition Games
Learners explore number sense by participating in a math recognition activity. For this number identification lesson, students practice pronouncing names of numbers and matching the number with an amount of objects. Learners practice...
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Name Collections with Craft Sticks
Groups of Kindergarten students count craft sticks in different groups and name how many they have. They complete simple addition to ten with the use of manipulatives.
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Number Writing Poems
Students read the short poem for each number to help them with number formation. In this numbers lesson plan, students follow directions of the poems.
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Using Numbers Everywhere
Kindergarteners explore various representations and uses of numbers to develop number sense. They participate in an activity and arrange patterns into groups. Students compare the sets and describe the objects in each set.