Curated OER
Halloween Candy/ Sugar Content
Fourth graders examine the amount of sugar contained in Halloween candy by looking at nutritional labels from candy bars. They figure out ways to encourage people to reduce the amount of sugar they eat at this holiday. They look at the...
Curated OER
Million Dollar Gift
Third graders create a box big enough to hold a million dollars. This is a project fun to do near the winter holidays with inexpensive gifts included in the boxes. This hands-on lesson very effectively demonstrates the concept of volume.
Curated OER
Periodic Trends
Students identify the different periodic trends. In this chemistry lesson, students discuss how elements are arranged in the periodic table. They apply what they have learned in a Jeopardy team game.
Curated OER
Zebra, Zebra Where Are Your Stripes?
Students observe the embryological development in the zebrafish. Developmental hierarchy from three germ layers is studied in depth. Research is validated on the body plan of the embryo.
Curated OER
"NSN, Fractions/Decimals" Investigations
Fifth graders engage in a "layered" unit of discovery. There are three levels of potential learning opportunities, in the spirit of the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (bronze, silver, gold). The instructional activity is based upon fractions.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Ordering and Computing With Negative Fractions and Decimals
This lesson plan allows students to practice comparing and ordering rational numbers on a number line as well as computing with fractions and decimals. It provides an assessment plan and attachments for the lesson's activities.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Compare and Order Whole Numbers to 100
In order to help children understand what numbers mean, it is helpful to teach them how to compare and order them. This site provides lesson plans, tips & tricks, and frequently asked questions. It's concise and easy to understand.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 6.ns Comparing Temperatures
This task has students do computations with positive and negative numbers in the context of temperature. Aligns with 6.NS.C.7.b.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Comparing Temperatures
Second graders should be able to recognize what makes one number greater or smaller than another, using place value understanding which is crucial to Common Core mastery. This lesson combines math and science by having students order...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Is Your Order Up or Down?
The students will be afforded opportunities to actively explore ordering numbers (from least to greatest and greatest to least). The students will engage in a whole group and cooperative learning group setting to explore ordering whole...
Other
Sumdog Teacher Portal: Biggest and Smallest
This engaging lesson plan allows students to practice ordering whole numbers to identify the smallest and largest. Teachers can create a free Sumdog account and usernames for their students to practice the skills through online learning...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nbt Comparing Decimals on the Number Line
This task presents four pairs of decimal numbers and asks students to compare them and place them on number lines. Aligns with 5.NBT.A.3.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Where Does That Fall on the Number Line?
Where does five-thirds belong on a number line? What about 1.61? Students apply their knowledge of fractions and decimals in order to compare and order fractions and decimals.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Equal Groups (Review)
Comparing the number of objects in two groups, using one-to one-correspondence, is a foundational skill that students will build on as they begin to compare numbers. This lesson will allow students to practice this skill in small groups....
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Finding Equal Groups
Students will be able to compare groups of objects to decide if they are equal with this lesson plan. Included are pictures and videos of the lesson plan in action, worksheets, and a SMART Board resource.
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Better Lesson: Building Towers
SWBAT count a set of up to 20 objects by 1's. SWBAT use number names and written numbers to label the quantities they represent. SWBAT order a set of numbers and quantities up to 12.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: How Many in Your Box?
SWBAT make a connection between number names and written numbers to the quantities they represent. They will also practice ordering numbers and quantities up to 12. Students will also document a solution to a problem
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduction to Sorting by Color
Kindergarteners find classifying and ordering fascinating. In this lesson, students learn to sort by color.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 5.nbt Placing Thousandths on the Number Line
This task asks students to order decimal numbers to the thousandths on a number line between 0 and 0.1. Aligns with 5.NBT.A.3.
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Better Lesson: Ordering Numbers: Unit Review and Test
SWBAT share their knowledge through the assessment provided
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Better Lesson: How Are They Different?
SWBAT order a set of numbers and quantities up to 12 and compare two quantities up to 10 to see which one is greater. The students will also demonstrate their knowledge of how the numbers in the counting sequence are related (that each...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Explorations in Place Value
Explorations in Place Value is an interactive math mini-unit that incorporates the use of children's literature, mathematical learning stations, and small group instructional strategies to reinforce basic principles of place value and to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Lining Up the Decimals
This lesson provides a chance for the young scholars to order decimals from least to greatest and greatest to least. The numbers are based on a student's ability. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...