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Better Lesson: Sugary Surprises
Grams are a useful measurement in determining nutritional content of food.
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Better Lesson: Differences With Shapes
Differences between shapes are determined through measurement skills.
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Better Lesson: Build a Bird Nest Box Day 2
Analyzing the work of others to determine if it meets the criteria for building a nest box.
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Better Lesson: My Unique Perimeter Performance Task
I can create things that have their own unique perimeter.
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Better Lesson: Broken Ruler Measurements
Using a broken ruler requires students to turn to addition and subtraction skills in order to determine measurements.
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Better Lesson: Math'n It Up!
Given a two-step word problem students will be ask to solve, and create their own math model of the given problem.
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Better Lesson: Tubing Tens Cool Off With an Imaginary River Adventure
If you know how to count by tens, you can solve multiplication problems in which ten is a factor.
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Better Lesson: Subtraction With Perimeter & Shapes
Subtraction problems can involve shapes, attributes and perimeter.
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Better Lesson: How Much Paint Do We Need?
This lesson is a real world task that combines many skills the students have learned throughout the school year.
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Better Lesson: Design Your Dream House Day 2
Area comes alive when you design your own space.
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Better Lesson: Area With Halves
Fractions can be used to understand halves of a unit square.
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Better Lesson: Length X Width
Breaking figures into smaller squares and rectangles allows me to multiply to find the area
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Shape? Analyzing and Script Writing
Third graders will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.
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Better Lesson: What Is Area?
Area is the concept of covering a region with "unit squares".
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Better Lesson: Graphing With M&m's
M&M's can be used to create a unique data set and can be graphed by students