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Better Lesson: Representing Fraction Multiplication
Riley has only completed one-third of her part of the mural. How can you find 1/3 of 1/2? Students extend their understanding of multiplication to fractions and area models.
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Better Lesson: Looking for Patterns + Show What You Know
How would you solve 3 1/4 - 1 5/6? What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding? Students continue looking for patterns when they are adding and subtracting fractions and then they take a quiz.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 2
How would you add 2 1/2 and 2/3? How would you find the difference between 2 1/2 and 2/3? Students continue to develop strategies for adding and subtracting fractions.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Fractions Day 1
If Ashley ate 1/2 pizza, Tatyana ate 1/3 of a pizza, and Tiffany ate 5/8 of a pizza, how much pizza did they eat altogether? What's the smallest number of pizzas they ordered? How much was left? Students work to develop strategies for...
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Better Lesson: Laying the Foundation Day 1
Instead of telling your young scholars new word meanings, let them take ownership for their learning.
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Better Lesson: Identifying and Writing Facts About Clouds
Students will be able to identify and learn about clouds.
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Better Lesson: Speaking and Listening: Collaborative Conversations
Your children will gain practice recalling details from what they read in the text.
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Better Lesson: Friendly Controversy
How do I convince others to understand my side of the story? Second grade students conducted shared research activities and participated in a Socratic Seminar practicing the techniques of persuasive reasoning.
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Better Lesson: Show What You Know + Stocks Wrap Up
What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding? After the quiz, 6th graders work on wrapping up their stocks project.
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Better Lesson: Tracking Stocks and Distance on the Coordinate Plane
Which stock price had the largest change? How do you know? What is the distance between (a, 5) and (a, -3)? Students continue tracking their investments and work on strategies for calculating length of horizontal and vertical lines.
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Better Lesson: Tracking Stocks and the Coordinate Plane
Which stock price had the largest change? How do you know? How do you represent a point on the coordinate plane? Students continue tracking their investments.
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Better Lesson: Show What You Know About Integers and Rational Numbers
What do students understand? What gaps do they have in their understanding?
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Better Lesson: Unit Review Stations
A line connects point (a, b) with point (c, d). What do you know? Students review for the Unit 3 test by completing stations.
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Better Lesson: What Rides Can You Go On?
What rides can you go on? Students connect inequalities with an amusement park's height requirements to figure out which rides they can go on.
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Better Lesson: Tracking Investments and Review
Sixth graders continue tracking their investments and apply what they have learned about absolute value to complete group tasks.
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Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details
This lesson plan uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are...
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Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature
This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...
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Better Lesson: I Know Why I Like Pie
Active, imaginative teaching with nursery rhymes takes advantage of how the brain learns best! In this instructional activity, learners will use a Venn Diagram to compare "Little Jack Horner" to "Sing a Song of Sixpence"
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Better Lesson: I Need a Pet
This is a fun lesson to allow young scholars to try to convince their parents to buy them a pet of their choice in an opinion letter.
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Better Lesson: What Does the Reader Want to Know? Creating Research Questions
In this instructional activity, students will change a research topic into questions that they will specifically answer while doing their research.
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Better Lesson: Logan Explains the Engineering Design Process
What are the steps in the engineering design process? What activities do engineers actually complete during those steps? Students learn the steps and then apply their new knowledge in this design challenge.
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Better Lesson: Come Prepared for Discussions
This is a collection of 14 discussion opportunities. Review the key ideas expressed and draw conclusions in light of information and knowledge gained from the discussions.
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Better Lesson: Finding the Area of a Trapezoid
Sixth graders find the area of a trapezoid by decomposing it into triangles and using the formula
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Better Lesson: Finals Week Day 2
Which drink has the strongest caffeine concentration? Students work on this problem for the second of two lessons.