Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Assessment of Triangles
What better way to get to know your students than with a 1:1 interview. Today you will interview each student on their knowledge of triangles and their ability to separate them from other shapes.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Is the Action of the Problem?
First graders work towards CCSS.MP1: Make sense of and persevere through problems with this introductory activity. Students learn to visualize what is happening in the problem.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Heading Back
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Now Stop and Turn It Around! That is the idea today as the students are introduced to the idea of counting back to 1.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Wreck It Ralph! Rekenreks
Getting fast and really comfortable with numbers 0-10--even automatic--is important when building foundational skills. We use Rekenreks (number racks) and the Promethean board for interactive practice.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Holiday Write the Room
This colorful, fun, festive free download was a surprise highlight during the busy holiday season!
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Greedy Gordy Can't Decide Working With Venn Diagrams
Students have been working with pictographs and bar graphs. Now they take their learning a step further by working with Venn Diagrams.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Ordering Numbers to 30
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it by looking at the number line.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introduce 100 Board
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it through exploring a 100 Chart.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Learning to Be a Friendly Partner
SWBAT be part of a team and successfully play a game with a partner, practicing the norms that have been established. SWBAT successfully explore three of the math tools that they will be using throughout the year.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Bigger or Smaller
Second grade students are asked to apply two complementary processes: counting and grouping. The conceptual understanding of the place value of a number and combining/separating numbers using place value, are critical aspects of...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Math Centers End of Year
At the end of the year, a lot is going on in our classroom. We continue our center routine for additional practice and to allow for end of the year testing to be completed.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Measurement Comparing Height Day 1
Lining up from tallest to shortest is a great way to practice looking at height and exploring the terms shorter and taller.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: There's Nothing to Sphere!
Kindergarteners love to identify shapes in their environment. In order effectively do that, they must be able to recognize different shapes by their specific attributes. In this instructional activity kindergartners learn about the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Numbers 26 to 30
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Numbers 20 to 25
Numbers don't stop at 20! We spend the last week or so of school looking at the numbers beyond 20. Today we do it through a story.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Using Table Data: Time to the 1/2 Hour
My students have learned how to read and write time. Now I want them to see how important time is for us to organize our lives. I want them to use data charts for schedules and be able to analyze the information.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Making a Table
First graders get a chance to use tables when breaking a total quantity into its component parts.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Would You Rather Be a Kid or a Grown Up?
Would you rather be a kid or a grown up? This question interests students and engages them in an interesting graphing exercise focused on how many total data points there are in a graph.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Survey Skills: Assessment
Today we become Gallup Poll central as students take a set of collected data and create a visual representation using the skills that have been taught over the past few lessons.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Our Own Surveys
Operation Independence! Students will now take what they have learned from previous data lessons and put it into action. The students will work in pairs of two to decide on a survey question and then collects classmates' responses to...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Super Sorter! Multiple Attribute Sorting With a Venn Diagram
Understanding multiple attributes is an important mathematical process. The students use their knowledge of Venn Diagrams in this lesson to gain more knowledge about this concept.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Discussing "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs"
In this lesson, 1st graders will work with "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" Jon Scieszkaby. They will describe the characters, setting, and key details in the story and help the teacher record the details on a circle map.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Did Jimmy's Boa Eat? 1 of 2
In this lesson, students will write an informational paper by comparing fictional text and a non fiction text about boa constrictors.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Walking Through the Jungle
In this lesson, students will read and discuss story events and then write an informative sentence about one of the events.