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Better Lesson: Unit 3 Assessment
It is important to assess students periodically to plan for future lessons to meet student needs.
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Better Lesson: Time and Money
As the result of a Unit assessment, it was found that students showed some confusion with writing time and with adding sets of coins. These skills need to be reviewed to aid in mastery of the Common Core standards for time and money.
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Better Lesson: Making Change Using Partners of One Hundred
Using dimes to make change is another way to work with subtracting tens within 100.
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Better Lesson: More Dimes and Dollars
Second graders need practice using coins and dollars and relating them to ones, tens and hundreds. Common Core standards include counting by 10s and 100s.
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Better Lesson: Manipulation Central
Not everyone solves a problem in the same way. Reinforcing that different strategies can be used effectively is the goal of this lesson.
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Better Lesson: Lucky Luggage Tags: An International Challenge
This lesson solidifies students' understanding of time to the hour (while enriching with basic geography content) and continues to build back up to 3rd grade goal of time to the minute.
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Better Lesson: Variables
Children will learn the term variable and then work to "attack" a problem using what they know about the relationship between multiplication and division to solve for an unknown.
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Better Lesson: Powerful Protein
The ability to making informed decisions about nutrition is built on using multiplication, division, and an understanding of grams and portion size.
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Better Lesson: Testing Trail Mix
Create a snack for testing week while practicing division and multiplication.
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Better Lesson: Associative Property With Manipulatives
Children need to understand why the mathematical properties work and how they are applied. In this lesson, we explore modeling and "proving" the associative property. In this lesson, we explore modeling and "proving" the associative...
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Better Lesson: Time Pictures
This lesson provides an opportunity for visual learns to think about segments of time during the school day.
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Better Lesson: Understanding Multiplication With Equal Groups
Third graders develop their understanding of multiplication by grouping objects into equal groups to model the factors and products.
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Better Lesson: Associative Property
Children need to understand why the mathematical properties work and how they are applied. In this lesson, we explore modeling and "proving" the associative property.
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Better Lesson: Using Class Data
Second graders have greater engagement in learning when it is organized around gathering and using meaningful data.
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Better Lesson: Hundreds, Tens, Ones Are Coins Too
Second graders will extend their understanding of hundreds, tens and ones using dollars, dimes and pennies as another way to express groups of 100, 10 and 1.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Hundreds
The Common Core standard is that students understand that the numbers 100, 200, etc. represent so many groups of 100.
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Better Lesson: Moving Along in Tens
Grouping by tens reinforces the understanding of place value
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property, Day 2
The children have been practicing decomposing areas and now digits in order to understand and use the distributive property.
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Better Lesson: Distributive Property, Day 1
Children need to move from the manipulative expressions of the distributive property into the mathematical equations eventually. This lesson is the first step in leading them to that goal.
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Better Lesson: Trends in Tech Use
We all use technology in different ways at different times. This activity is a fun way to learn more about these patterns within the children and families associated with our classroom!
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Better Lesson: More Meat!
Third graders practice skills of addition, subtraction, word problems and graphing and develop their own theories about why meat consumption is so different across the world.
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Better Lesson: Sugary Surprises
Grams are a useful measurement in determining nutritional content of food.
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Better Lesson: Subtraction With Perimeter & Shapes
Subtraction problems can involve shapes, attributes and perimeter.
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Better Lesson: Letters & Numbers & Books, Oh My!
Students will be able to locate specific areas and objects to learn about their new school setting.