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Erikson Institute: Halloween and Animal Fun While Exploring Big, Bigger
Here are two books to help students understand the concept of big, bigger, and biggest. Thinking about what big and bigger means helps children build the mathematical concept of measurement, particularly the big idea that all measurement...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Grandma's Button Box Sorting
Students will be able to compare objects and sort objects by color.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Area Battles
Student-made monsters on grid paper are a great way to stimulate comparison problem-solving.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Let's Compare
A comparison is not the addition of two numbers, but a difference. Seeing the visual difference is the focus of this activity.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Excellent Mathematical Explanations
Second graders use place value vocabulary to write excellent mathematical explanations about why a comparison statement is true or false.
PBS
Pbs: Count on It!: Episode 203 Blossom and Snappy Go to the Farm, Part I
Blossom and Snappy decide to surprise Robbie by making her a pumpkin pie using math in some creative ways. They visit a pumpkin farm, dairy farm, and a dairy plant, finding out all the ways math is used in each of these places.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: Cinderella
Second graders explore versions of the Cinderella tale from various cultures around the world. Students create a Patterns in Cinderella Stories Chart to trace the connections and common ideas across the various tales. They further...
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #11 Learning Activity: Straw Oboes
An easy to do activity that investigates sound waves, wave length, frequency and pitch. The activity is presented in a lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
McREL International
Mc Rel: Whelmer #64 Learning Activity: Liquid Rainbow
An easy to do activity that investigates density and solubility. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
ArtLex
Art Lex: V Page
A brief but effective definition of the Principle of Design known as Variety. There are links to other terms within the definition as well as quotations useful to the topic.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]
This graphic organizer includes a Venn Diagram. Students will then answer a guiding question to synthesize the information on the Venn Diagram.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
Depaul University: Center for Urban Education: Compara Y Contrasta [Pdf]
Students will compare and contrast information with the aid of this Venn Diagram that has been translated into Spanish. Students will answer a guiding question to help them summarize the content of the diagram.
Other
Spelling police.com: Analogy
Informational site that provides the definition for and examples of analogy.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Emphatic Transition Words: Lesson 1
This lesson goes over emphatic transition words and how they are used. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Emphatic Transition Words."
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Simile and Metaphor
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart explores examples of simile and metaphor as students brainstorm ideas with the class.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: To Buy or to Lease?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This interactive flipchart has several links to resources that will assist students in making a decision to buy or lease a car and then write a persuasive paper convincing their peers to believe as they...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Comparing Adjectives
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students learn to replace ineffective adjectives with more powerful ones. Exercises include ordering adjectives on a scale according to their intensity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Metaphor & Simile
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students understand the use of metaphors and similes in written and spoken language. There are several fun examples, activities and whole group feedback using Activotes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Transition Words
This lesson goes over comparison and contrast transition words.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Comparison and Contrast Transition Words
This lesson goes over comparison and contrast transition words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Loci
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn how to apply geometric properties and relationships to describe, compare, and draw two dimensional shapes.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Parallel Structure in Pairs: Lesson 2
This lesson discusses the importance of parallel construction in pairs. Parallel sentences with comparisons or contrasts are included in the lesson. It is 2 of 4 in the series titled "Parallel Structure in Pairs." L.9-10.1a Parallelism
English Plus+
Grammar Slammer: Pronouns With Elliptical Clauses
Explains the use of the correct case of pronoun when used in comparisons.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: What Is an Analogy?
Complete this exercise to test your understanding of analogies.