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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Project Reflection
Sixth graders watch their 100 Students video and reflect on their learning during the project.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Presenting Your Findings
Sixth graders work in groups to analyze the survey data and plan their presentations for the 100 Students Project.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Analyzing Survey Results
Sixth graders work in groups to analyze the survey data and plan their presentations for the 100 Students Project.
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Better Lesson: Absolute Value and Stocks
Sixth graders learn about the stock market and start a project involving tracking investments.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Integers With Counters
What are opposites and what happens when you add them together? Students work with counters to model adding and subtracting integers.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Integers on a Number Line
Sixth graders work with a number line and football to model adding and subtracting integers.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Sixth graders use estimates and work on strategies for adding and subtracting decimals.
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Better Lesson: Are We Alike?
Sixth graders combine like terms and simplify expressions with multiple terms and variables.
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Better Lesson: Area and Expressions
Sixth graders write expressions to find the area of compound figures.
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Better Lesson: Math Trash
A lesson where students collect trash, sort, and record the mass in grams. They will use their knowledge of numbers to figure out what category of trash had the most. The biggest idea of the lesson is that students will be more likely to...
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Better Lesson: How to Convert Ounces to Pounds
A lesson containing a warm up, guided group work, and practice for students to understand how to convert ounces to pounds.
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Better Lesson: Working With Larger Numbers
Explore subtraction and addition but having student collect data from rolling objects. This lesson has students adding and subtracting numbers they collected using strategies used in class. Use the document and video found on this page...
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Better Lesson: Bigger Than a Foot
Do your students know what objects are bigger than a foot? In this instructional activity, 2nd graders will need to go beyond memorizing 12 inches in a foot by using that information in measuring larger objects.
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Better Lesson: How Big Is a Foot?
Do students have any idea of what a foot really is? This lesson will have students measuring objects and making predictions about the length of objects.
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Better Lesson: Identifying 2 D Shapes
In this activity, 2nd graders will identify shapes found around the room by recognizing their attributes such as number of angles, vertexes, and faces.
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Better Lesson: Lines and Line Segments
A lesson to cover the standards about line segments. In this lesson, 2nd graders will measure and record the length of a line segment. Students will also compare lengths of a line but adding and subtracting line segments.
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Better Lesson: Partners Make Ten
This lesson uses rhyming and visualization to help students quickly add number facts that make ten.
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Better Lesson: Think About Adding Nothing and a Little More
Lay the foundation for addition facts with introducing students to "the understanding that the number relationships between 0 more than, 1 more than, and 2 more". To help implement this instructional activity the website contains...
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Better Lesson: Numbers Have Patterns
A lesson for students to recognize patterns in a number chart. Site includes documents and videos to help implement the lesson.
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Better Lesson: A Whole and Its Parts
Second graders take fractions apart and put them back together to form a whole.
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Better Lesson: Addition in the Real World
Think of addition in the real world as the joining of two parts to make a whole. The use of addition number sentences can show how we join the parts to make the whole.
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Better Lesson: Area Battles
Student-made monsters on grid paper are a great way to stimulate comparison problem-solving.
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Better Lesson: 3 Digit Perimeters
Second graders work with 3-digit numbers as they solidify their understanding of the difference between perimeter and area.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting With Lengths
Second graders will use their addition and subtraction strategies to measure and compare distances, solving using centimeter units.