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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Pet?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph to find 3 pieces of information the graph shows them.
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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Little Bear Story?
SWBAT create a bar graph to match a data set. SWBAT analyze the graph for 3 pieces of information.
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Better Lesson: Introduction to Sorting by Color
Kindergarteners find classifying and ordering fascinating. In this lesson, students learn to sort by color.
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Better Lesson: Subtraction Number Stories Day 3
Students will be able to create their own number stories and represent them using one of the methods we have learned in this unit.
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Better Lesson: Math Centers Review Previous Skills
Students will be able to independently practice graphing, teen numbers, and addition.
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Better Lesson: Put It Together and Take It Apart
Second graders increase their understanding of place value by manipulating larger numbers.
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Better Lesson: Put Together or Take Away?
First graders learn the basics of 1.OA.1 by mixing addition and subtraction word problems from day 1. The focus question is: Put together or take away?
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Better Lesson: Properties of Plane Shapes
I love graphic organizers. My students will increase their vocabularies by learning more 2D shape terms through the use of a graphic organizer.
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Better Lesson: Greater or Less?
Students will determine within number sets which digit is "greater" or "less"
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Better Lesson: I See Two. Do You? Exploring the Number Two
Students will be able to identify the number two, identify groups with two objects and represent the number two.
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Better Lesson: Learning to Sort Same and Different
Students will be able to compare objects.
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Better Lesson: Quadrilateral or Parallelogram?
Third graders discover the differences between quadrilaterals and parallelograms with everyday items found in the classroom.
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Better Lesson: What Playground Toy Should the Principal Buy for Us
SWBAT use a graph as evidence in a persuasive letter. SWBAT evaluate statements to determine which statement is true, citing evidence in the graph.
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Better Lesson: What Is Your Favorite Snack?
SWBAT use graphs to analyze whether a statement is true or false. SWBAT use graphs as evidence for a persuasive letter.
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Better Lesson: The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School Sorting
Students will be able to sort pictures that are alike and determine which group has more and fewer pictures.
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Better Lesson: One Is Fun! Exploring the Number One
Students will be able to identify the number one, identify groups with one object and represent the number one.
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Better Lesson: Searching for Shapes in Architecture (Day 1)
Learning the names and attributes of polygons while looking at buildings of the world will make them unforgettable!
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Better Lesson: Snack Attack
Graphing can be made fun and hands-on with different real world "tools" - like snacks!
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Better Lesson: Smoothing Out Subtraction
Second graders demonstrate comfort with addition, but show less ease with subtraction. Repeated practice with subtraction is necessary to build fluency.
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Better Lesson: Creating a Robot (2 Days)
What do tin foil, surface area, and rectangular prisms make? A tin foil robot of course! This lesson includes practice problems about surface area, worksheets, a video explanation, and a reflection sheet.
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Better Lesson: Customarily Speaking and Measuring
Students will be using a hands-on approach to learning about length, capacity, and weight. This instructional activity contains a detailed plan, slides containing notes and problems, and a video tutorial.
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Better Lesson: Constant Speed
Students will connect math and science while working with constant speed. This lesson includes several constant speed problems that can be modeled with ratio tables. Included is a detailed plan, video explanation, slides containing notes...
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Better Lesson: Crossing Over 100
Second graders often become confused as they count from one decade to the next. In order to become fluent with operations in addition and subtraction, 2nd graders need to be able to move across decades. This lesson includes a detailed...