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Better Lesson: Using Rates
This lesson is designed to get students connecting their learning about unit rates to real life examples.
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Better Lesson: Review Day for Equations and Inequalities
Sixth graders will practice how to solve equations and inequalities using tables and diagrams. Lesson includes worksheets and videos to help implement this instructional activity.
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Better Lesson: Working Out the Solutions
A lesson for students to work with writing and graphing inequalities. Documents to execute the lesson are included.
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Better Lesson: How Close Is "Close"?
A lesson where students are comparing decimals and fractions to generate ones that fall between "close" numbers. Lesson includes worksheets and videos to help implement the lesson with a class.
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Better Lesson: Line Me Up. Analyzing and Creating Line Graphs
Line graphs are used in our daily lives to show change over time.
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Better Lesson: Bar None. Analyzing and Creating Bar Graphs
The students will love this real life learning. They will be able to get information from a graph as well as create their own graphs from the questions they have developed.
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Better Lesson: Statistically Speaking....
Determining a good statistical question is the foundation of statistics.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Project Reflection
Sixth graders watch their 100 Students video and reflect on their learning during the project.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Presenting Your Findings
Sixth graders work in groups to analyze the survey data and plan their presentations for the 100 Students Project.
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Better Lesson: 100 Students Project: Analyzing Survey Results
Sixth graders work in groups to analyze the survey data and plan their presentations for the 100 Students Project.
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Better Lesson: Absolute Value and Stocks
Sixth graders learn about the stock market and start a project involving tracking investments.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Integers With Counters
What are opposites and what happens when you add them together? Students work with counters to model adding and subtracting integers.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Integers on a Number Line
Sixth graders work with a number line and football to model adding and subtracting integers.
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Better Lesson: Adding and Subtracting Decimals
Sixth graders use estimates and work on strategies for adding and subtracting decimals.
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Better Lesson: Are We Alike?
Sixth graders combine like terms and simplify expressions with multiple terms and variables.
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Better Lesson: Area and Expressions
Sixth graders write expressions to find the area of compound figures.
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Better Lesson: Math Trash
A instructional activity where students collect trash, sort, and record the mass in grams. They will use their knowledge of numbers to figure out what category of trash had the most. The biggest idea of the instructional activity is that...
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Better Lesson: How to Convert Ounces to Pounds
A lesson containing a warm up, guided group work, and practice for students to understand how to convert ounces to pounds.
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Better Lesson: Working With Larger Numbers
Explore subtraction and addition but having student collect data from rolling objects. This lesson has students adding and subtracting numbers they collected using strategies used in class. Use the document and video found on this page...
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Better Lesson: Bigger Than a Foot
Do your students know what objects are bigger than a foot? In this lesson, 2nd graders will need to go beyond memorizing 12 inches in a foot by using that information in measuring larger objects.
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Better Lesson: How Big Is a Foot?
Do students have any idea of what a foot really is? This instructional activity will have students measuring objects and making predictions about the length of objects.
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Better Lesson: Identifying 2 D Shapes
For this activity, 2nd graders will identify shapes found around the room by recognizing their attributes such as number of angles, vertexes, and faces.
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Better Lesson: Lines and Line Segments
A lesson to cover the standards about line segments. In this lesson, 2nd graders will measure and record the length of a line segment. Students will also compare lengths of a line but adding and subtracting line segments.
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Better Lesson: Partners Make Ten
This lesson uses rhyming and visualization to help students quickly add number facts that make ten.