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Better Lesson: Skittle Arrays
Skittles - yum!! You will instantly have your student's attention when you teach about arrays using Skittles. This detailed activity walks you through the steps, provides worksheets for varying math levels, and includes a video of the...
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Better Lesson: Estimate Length in Inches
Second graders will be able to estimate the lengths of objects by mentally partitioning the lengths into inches. A video, worksheets, and a detailed lesson plan are included.
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Better Lesson: Area and Perimeter Review Using Legos
Lesson plan in which students calculate area, build areas to a given amount, and calculate the perimeter with the use of Legos. Step by step instructions and videos are provided. CCSS.Math.Content.3.MD.C.7.c Use area models to represent...
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Better Lesson: Algebra Ii: The Trigonometric Functions
A lesson plan where students will interpret the trigonometric functions in terms of the unit circle, graph a sinusoidal function, and use a sinusoidal function to make interpretations in a modeling context.
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Better Lesson: Add or Substitute Individual Sounds (Phonemes)
This site contains 13 lesson plans that are designed to address that standards of emergent readers. Each lesson engages students in adding or substituting individual sounds (phonemes).
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Better Lesson: Cities in Mesopotamia: Understanding a Complex Text
In this lesson plan, 6th graders use details from a nonfiction article to create a visual representation and then, from that visual, provide evidence that demonstrates their understanding of the text. Includes samples of student work and...
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Better Lesson: I Learned It Online
Preparing the new generations for college and career readiness absolutely requires us to ensure our children are competent and comfortable in the use of a variety of digital tools. Students will be learning about a topic online and...
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Better Lesson: With Prompting and Support, Ask and Answer Questions
Choose from a variety of lessons that meet the Common Core standard of asking and answering questions about unknown words in nonfiction texts.
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Better Lesson: Unit: Sentence Types
Lessons and materials to teach simple, compound, and complex sentences to middle school students.
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Better Lesson: Two Mediums, One Topic
Comparing the treatment of setting in "The Most Dangerous Game" and a movie clip. RL.9-10.7 analyze 2 media
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Better Lesson: Writing Equations for Arrays
Second graders will learn how to make number sentences for an array by walking around the classroom and writing number sentences for the different arrays the teacher hangs around the room. A video is included, along with examples of...
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Better Lesson: What Is an Array?
Teach a lesson about repeated addition and arrays by using this very detailed lesson plan. The author walks you through the lesson step-by-step and even includes a video of her teaching about arrays for reference. Word problem worksheets...
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Better Lesson: Geometric Sequences and Series
Learners will be able to make use of structure on their way to deriving a formula for the sum of a geometric series. They will also gain more experience in finding the nth term of a sequence/series. Includes short video. [1:15]
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Better Lesson: Mars Habitat
In this instructional activity, students are asked to examine a model for a space station on Mars that will house six researchers studying the possibility of establishing a colony. Given the dimensions of the station and the minimum...
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Better Lesson: Compare and Contrast Informational Text
This third grade lesson plan engages students in comparing and contrasting paired informational text passages about frogs. Students will use a Venn Diagram to keep track of the information.
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Better Lesson: Unit: Figurative Language With Casey at Bat
In this lesson, 5th graders learn how to analyze figurative language in the poem, "Casey At The Bat."
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Better Lesson: Lesson: Reading Outside of Class
In this lesson, a teacher describes the steps being taken to encourage students to become independent readers outside class time.
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Better Lesson: Lesson: Compare and Contrast
In this lesson plan, 5th graders are asked to compare the similarities and differences between two fables, "The Three Questions" and "Fu Finds the Way." Examples of students' Venn diagrams are provided.
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Better Lesson: Lesson: A Picture Says a Thousand Words
The objective of this lesson plan is for students to understand how an author uses language and illustrations to influence the way readers think and feel about characters and events in a story. Students are asked to evaluate the...
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Better Lesson: Generally Speaking, Generalizations Can Generally Be Confusing
In this lesson, 5th graders learn how to identify a generalization in a text so that they can then spot lies or inaccuracies. Includes downloadable workbook with a generalization activity on page 53.
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Better Lesson: The True Story of Christopher Columbus
In this instructional activity, 5th graders analyze two nonfiction passages on Christopher Columbus to determine facts and author's bias and its influence on the readers.
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Better Lesson: Nature's Fury: Performance Task Continued
In this lesson, 5th graders develop narratives by describing characters and creating a logical event sequence. This is part of a larger unit but can be taught separately.
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Better Lesson: Avoiding Plagiarism and Citing Sources
In this scaffolded lesson, students engage in practice with determining whether or not research has been plagiarized. A short video demonstration is included. [03:44] This lesson addresses all three College and Career Readiness Standards...
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Better Lesson: The Leprechaun Companion
In this lesson, 5th graders will explain the meaning of a text and its genre, summarize it, and draw conclusions. They work with a book called The Leprechaun Companion which is a cross between informational and literary text.