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Curated OER

Make Sense of Nature

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students participate in this program that heightens their awareness and curiosity of nature as well as their sense of adventure and exploring new surroundings. They identify and choose an object from nature after exploring it with other...
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Curated OER

How Many Ways?

For Teachers 2nd
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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Curated OER

Star Summarizers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a reading literacy lesson with the goal of improving reading fluency and comprehension. They work on the skill of summarization that helps to pick out important details of a reading.
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Curated OER

Towel Testing

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Students examine how to design and implement experiments.  In this paper towel experiment activity students test the strength of paper towels. 
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Curated OER

Be the Change You Wish to See

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students review the lessons from the whole unit before devising a plan of action for a volunteer effort. They work in teams using a worksheet to determine a social cause that they develop an effective idea to promote. They design an...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Subtraction Number Stories Day 3

For Teachers K Standards
Students will be able to create their own number stories and represent them using one of the methods we have learned in this unit.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: What Is the Story of the Word Problem? [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This lesson will assist students in visualizing and solving situations presented in word problems.
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Other

Nearpod: Addition & Subtraction: Winter Edition

For Teachers 2nd Standards
In this lesson, 2nd graders will use keywords and the part-part-whole model to solve addition and subtraction word problems with 2-digit and 3-digit numbers.
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Other

Nearpod: Addition & Subtraction Within 20

For Teachers 1st Standards
In this lesson on addition and subtraction within 20, 1st graders learn how to solve addition and subtraction story problems by finding clue words. Adding three addends is also taught in this lesson.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.rp Stock Swaps, Variation 3

For Teachers 6th - 8th
A multi-step performance task word problem: Microsoft Corp. has made an offer to acquire 1.5 million shares of Apple Corp. worth $374 per share. They offered Apple 10 million shares of Microsoft worth $25 per share, but they need to make...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: More Meat!

For Teachers 3rd Standards
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.