Better Lesson: Creating a Robot (2 Days)

Is there a correlation between a country's wealth and the extent of its ecological footprint? What exactly constitutes an ecological footprint, and how does one country stack up against the rest? This is a unique lesson plan to...

Step 1: Use the resource. Step 2: Watch your class become experts in solving two-step problems. Scholars learn to solve two-step word problems in context. They use tape diagrams and algebraic techniques to break the problem into two,...

Get in the Valentine's Day spirit with an addition worksheet. Scholars solve problems and color answers different colors depending on whether they are even or odd.   

Practice multiplying, and celebrate St. Patrick's Day simultaneously with a fun learning game. Here, players roll two six-faced number cubes and multiply the two face-up numbers to find the product. Then, they place a marker on...

To solve or not to solve that is the problem. A slide presentation of 17 items show different ways that Smarter Balanced assesses Claim 2, problem solving. The items span from sixth and seventh grade concepts to highlight the...

Time to do a little two-step! Young scholars view a lesson on solving two-step equations. The video instructor shows several examples that include all different operations. The instruction emphasizes using the properties of equality as a...

This lesson is a performance task based on their learning of ratios. Students will be using their knowledge of ratios and unit rates to create their own pizza.

What strategies do you have for dividing fractions? How do you divide 1 2/3 by 1/3? Students apply all that they have learned about dividing with fractions to divide mixed numbers by fractions for a second day.

How would you add 2 1/2 and 2/3? How would you find the difference between 2 1/2 and 2/3? Students continue to develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions.

If Ashley ate 1/2 pizza, Tatyana ate 1/3 of a pizza, and Tiffany ate 5/8 of a pizza, how much pizza did they eat altogether? What's the smallest number of pizzas they ordered? How much was left? Students work to develop strategies for...