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Inquiry Lesson About Color
Pupils investigate the color choices artists make in their work, and to practice the scientific process of predicting, observing, inferring, and interpreting. This lesson's purpose is to prepare students for a museum visit.
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Learning by Sorting
Students sort Lego Duplo pieces after determining the attributes to classify them by. They work in pairs to sort a group of Duplo pieces and explain their process to others.
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About Magnets
Second graders conduct simple experiments , observe and explain what they discovered. In this simple experiments lesson students design a magnet and make a compass.
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Mallard's Wet Olympics
Students investigate some of the different characteristics of living things. They make observations from reading and interactive media. Students observe that animals move in different ways and have adaptations to aid in that action.
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Math: Collecting and Analyzing Date
Children count how many of an activity they can do in a row, such as ball tossing and record the date and count. Children track over a period of time and graph results.
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Space Shapes
Learners read "Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes" by Stuart Murphy and view a PowerPoint presentation on shapes. They identify shapes presented in the book and then identify shapes found in their classroom.
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Rockets on a Shoestring Budgut
Students work together to create rockets on a budget. They discover the limitations that real engineers face when designing and testing their products. They discuss their findings to complete the instructional activity.
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Battleship Wisconsin
Students predict what geometric shapes they think would be on the battleship; then view a picture and identify the various shapes they see. They take a tour of the battleship Wisconsin they identify various geometric shapes represented...
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Why Is An Apple Like A Suitcase?
Students examine a variety of fruit to discover that each has seeds. Through experimentation, they discover the role that fruit and seeds play in a plant's life cycle.
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Asian Art
Second graders investigate the art of a number of Asian countries. They look at slides and sculptures, and make a Chinese hand scrolls.
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Graph Your Foot!
Students measure their own foot and place the outline on a graph. They make connections between the size of their foot and the bar graph that represents it.
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Just a Little Bit
Second graders read the book, "Just a Little Bit" and work in groups weighing the same object with a scale. They then get a different unit of measurement, like paper clips, cotton balls, washers, or pennies and then figure out and record...
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Wash Your Hands...they are icky sticky!
Students engage in an emergent literacy instructional activity that focuses on phonemic awareness and they practice corresponding the letter "i" to its long or short sound. This type of recognition has been found to be essential to...
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Compare Numbers to 100
Students play a game to practice comparing numbers using the equal, less than, and greater than signs. Work against a timer, and earn points.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Using Pictures to Explain Number Comparisons
This lesson plan has students compare two numbers using greater than, less than, and equal symbols.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Compare With Multi Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to compare numbers in a word problem using multiple operations to find given values and the solutions to the questions posed in the problem. The...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing Values of Two Numbers
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] For this learning module, students are presented with two numbers up to 1,000 which they must compare using their knowledge of place value. Includes video...
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Crocodiles Love to Eat the Most
Students get very confused when asked to use >,<, and = to compare numbers. This lesson plan will show students how to make the crocodile eat the biggest number and free their minds to compare numbers and not focus on which symbol...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 2.nbt Comparisons 1
In this lesson plan students compare equations using greater than, less than, and equal to.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Word Problems That Compare Values
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this interactive media source, the video defines comparative word problems and describes an example of how to compare using numbers less than 10.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Comparing With Two Step Addition and Subtraction Word Problems
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video is a 2 part word problem using addition and subtraction of 2-digit numbers. The video is followed by practice problems to assess student understanding of...