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Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.
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Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy
How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.
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Better Lesson: Show What You Know + Stocks Wrap Up
What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding? After the quiz, 6th graders work on wrapping up their stocks project.
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Better Lesson: Tracking Stocks and Distance on the Coordinate Plane
Which stock price had the largest change? How do you know? What is the distance between (a, 5) and (a, -3)? Students continue tracking their investments and work on strategies for calculating length of horizontal and vertical lines.
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Better Lesson: Tracking Stocks and the Coordinate Plane
Which stock price had the largest change? How do you know? How do you represent a point on the coordinate plane? Students continue tracking their investments.
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Better Lesson: Show What You Know About Integers and Rational Numbers
What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding?
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Better Lesson: Unit Review Stations
A line connects point (a, b) with point (c, d). What do you know? Students review for the Unit 3 test by completing stations.
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Better Lesson: What Rides Can You Go On?
What rides can you go on? Students connect inequalities with an amusement park's height requirements to figure out which rides they can go on.
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Better Lesson: Tracking Investments and Review
Sixth graders continue tracking their investments and apply what they have learned about absolute value to complete group tasks.
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Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details
This lesson uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are guided...
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Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature
This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...
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Better Lesson: I Know Why I Like Pie
Active, imaginative teaching with nursery rhymes takes advantage of how the brain learns best! For this lesson, students will use a Venn Diagram to compare "Little Jack Horner" to "Sing a Song of Sixpence"
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Better Lesson: I Need a Pet
This is a fun instructional activity to allow students to try to convince their parents to buy them a pet of their choice in an opinion letter.
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Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions
In this instructional activity, students will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
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Better Lesson: Logan Explains the Engineering Design Process
What are the steps in the engineering design process? What activities do engineers actually complete during those steps? Students learn the steps and then apply their new knowledge in this design challenge.
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Better Lesson: Finding the Area of a Trapezoid
Sixth graders find the area of a trapezoid by decomposing it into triangles and using the formula
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Better Lesson: Finals Week Day 2
Which drink has the strongest caffeine concentration? Students work on this problem for the second of two lessons.
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Better Lesson: First Week of School, Day 2
Sixth graders will take a test and be surprised at how similar their teacher is to them.
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Better Lesson: First Week of School, Day 3
Sixth graders read a poem to see the importance of class rules and behaviors.
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Better Lesson: First Week of School, Day 1
Sixth graders will learn about each other from a toilet paper activity.
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Better Lesson: Geometry Assessment
Sixth graders solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, volume and surface area.
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Better Lesson: Finding the Area Review and Assessment
Sixth graders find the area of rectangles, triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids by using formulas or by composing into rectangles or triangles.
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Better Lesson: Find Closed Shapes
Students understand what a closed shape is and identify different shapes in the environment by name.
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Better Lesson: Gcf and Lcm Quiz
Sixth graders show what they know about greatest common factor and east common multiple.