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Better Lesson: Learning to Be a Friendly Partner
SWBAT be part of a team and successfully play a game with a partner, practicing the norms that have been established. SWBAT successfully explore three of the math tools that they will be using throughout the year.
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Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...
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Better Lesson: Math Centers End of Year
At the end of the year, a lot is going on in our classroom. We continue our center routine for additional practice and to allow for end of the year testing to be completed.
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Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Height Day 1
Lining up from tallest to shortest is a great way to practice looking at height and exploring the terms shorter and taller.
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Better Lesson: There's Nothing to Sphere!
Kindergarteners love to identify shapes in their environment. In order effectively do that, they must be able to recognize different shapes by their specific attributes. In this instructional activity kindergartners learn about the...
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Better Lesson: Numbers 26 to 30
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20.
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Better Lesson: Numbers 20 to 25
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it through a story.
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Better Lesson: Using Table Data: Time to the 1/2 Hour
My students have learned how to read and write time. Now I want them to see how important time is for us to organize our lives. I want them to use data charts for schedules and be able to analyze the information.
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Better Lesson: Making a Table
First graders get a chance to use tables when breaking a total quantity into its component parts.
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Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?
Would you rather be a kid or a grown up? This question interests students and engages them in an interesting graphing exercise focused on how many total data points there are in a graph.
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Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
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Better Lesson: Our Own Surveys
Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to...
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Better Lesson: Super Sorter! Multiple Attribute Sorting With a Venn Diagram
Understanding multiple attributes is an important mathematical process. The students use their knowledge of Venn Diagrams in this activity to gain more knowledge about this concept.
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Better Lesson: Discussing "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"
In this lesson, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.
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Better Lesson: What Did Jimmy's Boa Eat? 1 of 2
In this lesson, students will write an informational paper by comparing fictional text and a non fiction text about boa constrictors.
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Better Lesson: Walking Through the Jungle
In this lesson, students will read and discuss story events and then write an informative sentence about one of the events.
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Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Lost Button
In this lesson, students will record events and evidence from the story "Frog and Toad Are Friends" so they can use that evidence to answer comprehension questions.
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Better Lesson: The Gingerbread Boy Versus the Gingerbread Girl
Students will compare and contrast parts of two stories, "The Gingerbread Boy" and "The Gingerbread Girl" with the aid of graphic organizers.
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Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 3rd Read
In this lesson, students will compare and contrast characters within the story "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi.
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Better Lesson: Don't Need Friends 2nd Read
In this lesson, students will engage in a second guided reading of "Don't Need Friends" by Carolyn Crimi. Students will compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between two stories.
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Better Lesson: Comparing and Contrasting Two Stories Using a Double Bubble Map
For this lesson, 1st graders will look at two texts with the "The Three Little Pigs" story. Students will compare the approach that each of the authors takes.
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Better Lesson: Somebody Wanted the Gingerbread Bear, So...
Using a graphic organizer can help students retell the story "The Gingerbread Bear" by Robert Dennis.
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Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends the Story
During this lesson plan, 1st graders will sequence events in "Frog and Toad Are Friends" by Arnold Lobel, describe the problem and solution, and describe the characters.
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Better Lesson: Double Bubble Fun!
For this lesson, students compare two texts written by the same author, Leo Lionni. Then they will write an opinion piece on which story is their favorite and why.