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Better Lesson: Take It Apart, Put It Together
The purpose of this lesson is to reinforce the idea that things are made up of small parts that can be recombined in novel ways. It also shows that the shape of certain parts dictates their function. Students delight in taking things...
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Better Lesson: Email Clarifying Questions
At the end of this instructional activity, students will demonstrate the use of commas, clarifying questions, and a friendly letter format by sending an email. Email is part of student's lives, and it is part of the digital landscape...
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Sentence?
This lesson will help learners recognize that spoken sentences are represented in written language by specific sequences of words, beginning with a capital letter and ending with a punctuation mark. This lesson is short but it allows...
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Better Lesson: Engage in Group Reading Activities With Purpose and Understanding
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Kindergarten standard of engaging in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
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Better Lesson: Vocabulary and Reading Go Hand in Hand
Students will be doing their own illustrations of the vocabulary words from "Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!" Students will also practice the skill of sequencing.
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Better Lesson: R E S P E C T
What does it mean to respect someone? How will you show respect to our math community? Students work together to generate expectations for each other and the teacher to ensure that people are respected.
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Better Lesson: Unit Closure
What is going on in the problem? What are you trying to figure out? What kind of model could you create for this problem? Students apply the skills they have learned throughout Unit 4.
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Better Lesson: Unit Review
What number sentence represents what is going on in this problem? Why? What kind of model could you create for this problem? Students review the skills they have learned throughout Unit 4.
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Better Lesson: Strategies for Dividing Fractions Day 2 + Show What You Know
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.
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Better Lesson: Strategies for Dividing Fractions
What strategies do you have for dividing fractions? How do you divide 1 1/8 by 1/4? Students apply all that they have learned about dividing with fractions to divide mixed numbers by fractions.
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Better Lesson: Dividing Fractions by Fractions
What do you get when you divide 1/4 by 1/2? What does your answer actually mean? Students continue building their skills and strategies in order to divide fractions by fractions.
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Better Lesson: Dividing Whole Numbers by Fractions
What do you get when you divide 6 by 2/3? How can you connect this problem to multiplication? Students continue to make connections between multiplication and division and work to develop strategies for dividing whole numbers by fractions.
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Better Lesson: Basic Fractions on a Number Line (Divisible by Two)
Third graders create number lines to represent benchmark fractions.
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Better Lesson: Units & Wholes (Days 1 3)
It is important for students to learn to compare the size of the same fraction units as the size of the whole amount changes.
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Better Lesson: Connecting Multiplication and Division
How are multiplication and division connected? Why do 11 divided by 2 and 11 times 1/2 result in the same answer? Students make connections between multiplication and division and work to develop strategies for dividing whole numbers by...
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Better Lesson: The Multiplying Game
How can you create the smallest product in the Multiplying Game? Students apply what they know about multiplying fractions to the Multiplying Game.
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Better Lesson: Mixed Number Multiplication
How can we use diagrams to multiply mixed numbers? How can we multiply mixed numbers without using a diagram? Students apply what they know about multiplying fractions to multiplying with mixed numbers.
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Better Lesson: Representing Fraction Multiplication Day 2
What does it mean when you multiply fractions? How can you multiply fractions without drawing a diagram? Students build on their skills for multiplying fractions and they work to develop an algorithm.
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Better Lesson: Representing Fraction Multiplication
Riley has only completed one-third of her part of the mural. How can you find 1/3 of 1/2? Students extend their understanding of multiplication to fractions and area models.
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Better Lesson: Looking for Patterns + Show What You Know
How would you solve 3 1/4 - 1 5/6? What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding? Students continue looking for patterns when they are adding and subtracting fractions and then they take a quiz.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 2
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.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 1
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...
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Better Lesson: Laying the Foundation Day 1
Instead of telling your students new word meanings, let them take ownership for their learning.
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Better Lesson: Identifying and Writing Facts About Clouds
Students will be able to identify and learn about clouds.