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When is a Block, not a Block?
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. In this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.
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Graphosaurus
Students complete bar graphing activities with a dinosaur theme. Students discuss their favorite dinosaurs, collect data about the discussion, and make a floor graph of the information. Students complete a dinosaur graph worksheet.
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Four Corners Spelling
Second graders participate in a spelling activity using clapping and rhythmic patterns. For this ongoing spelling lesson, 2nd graders practice various spelling words in groups and using rhythms. Students then independently spell...
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Forest Activity: Forest Layers (Grades 1-6)
Students use the Museumlink Forest Module to view landscape paintings and discuss the names and functions of the forest layers. They paint or draw a landscape of a forest with the layers and explain them.
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Keeping Us in Stitches Activity: Hexagon Quilt Top Design
Students examine how the hexagon shape can be a building block for quilt patterns. They view images of quilts, discuss symmetry and design patterns, and create and name an original quilt design.
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Classification of Materials
Students classify photographs into a two-way classification system. They practice with pictures of people who are young and old, male and female, then they use pictures of animals to create their own two-way classification system.
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Energy Transfer
Students investigate the properties of heated air. They make predictions about what they think makes the wind blow on a worksheet, and conduct two experiments to demonstrate the properties of heated air. Students heat a bottle until a...
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Letter Sounds
Students orally say the sounds of the letters A, G, H, L, N, R, W, and J at the beginning of words when given a list of words that start with these letters. They use at least two of these words effectively in a sentence. Students...
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Fruit Seeds
Second graders use fruit to conduct an observation experiment. They use the skills of observation to write down different facts about three different fruits looking at the outside and inside contents. Students explain two things they...
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Student Time Lines
Second graders create timelines of significant events in their lives. They include at least five events and draw pictures that signify three of them. After observing a time line the teacher has made of their own lives, they create their...
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How Many Ways?
Second graders develop number sense. In this number sense lesson, 2nd graders use multiple ways to represent numbers including written numerals, tally marks and manipulatives. Students correctly use place value to the thousands place.
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Function Machine
Second graders decipher a pattern using input and output. In this functions lesson, 2nd graders use input and output numbers to find a pattern involving addition and subtraction. Students use the pattern they discovered to help solve...
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Two Ways to Write Money
Second graders complete activities to learn about money and how to write money. In this money lesson plan, 2nd graders watch a video about ways to write money. Students work in groups with play money and come up with two ways to write...
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Properties Everywhere
Students examine and sort objects by specific attributes and apply prior knowledge. In this properties everywhere activity, students work in groups to arrange objects in categories then discuss various sorting options while...
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Using Sequencing As A Reading Strategy
Sequencing is an important reading strategy students can use to unlock the meaning of a text.
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Teaching Place Value
Utilizing mathematical literature and games are two excellent ways to introduce and teach place value.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Find 1 Starting From 5/3, Assessment Variation
This is the third of three summative assessment tasks for 3.NF.2 that progress in difficulty. Each requires that students understand a fraction as a number on the number line and represent fractions on a number line diagram. Aligns with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Comparing Fractions Same Numerator, Assessment
This task is about comparing two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size, and understanding that such comparisons are valid only when the fractions refer to the same whole. Aligns with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Find 7/4 Starting From 1, Assessment Variation
Students find 7/4 starting from 1. Aligns with 3.NF.A.2; CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.2.a Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Fraction Comparisons Pictures, Assessment Variation
This task is about comparing two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size, and understanding that such comparisons are valid only when the fractions refer to the same whole. Aligns with...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Find 1/4 Starting From 1, Assessment Version
The number line below shows two numbers, 0 and 1. Students find 1/4 on this number line. Aligns with 3.NF.A.2; CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.2.a Represent a fraction 1/b on a number line diagram
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: Comparing Fractions Same Denominator, Assessment
This task is about comparing two fractions with the same numerator or the same denominator by reasoning about their size, and understanding that such comparisons are valid only when the fractions refer to the same whole. Aligns with...
Other
Gapminder: Dollar Street
In this collection of 30,000 photos from 46 countries, students will be assess "how people really live" around the world. Students can compare bathrooms, toys, and more. Students will explore different cultures, economics, geography,...
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 3.nf Find 1 (On the Number Line)
The purpose of this task is to assess whether students understand fractions as being built from unit fractions and whether they can accurately locate fractions on the number line. Aligns with 3.NF.A.2/CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.1 Standard...