Area in Grid
(View Complete Item Description)This short video and interactive assessment activity is designed to teach second graders an overview of area.
Material Type: Assessment, Interactive, Lecture
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Counting Squares
(View Complete Item Description)This challenging problem and brainteaser gives first graders an opportunity to compose and decompose squares.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
2.G Partitioning a Rectangle into Unit Squares
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Add to 10 with Images
(View Complete Item Description)This course features a video review of addition up to the sum of ten for first graders.
Material Type: Lecture
2.G Partitioning a Rectangle into Unit Squares
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Unit 2.3 Bloom Where You're Planted
(View Complete Item Description)Area: Plants This Second Grade unit is the THIRD in the curriculum of three (3) units developed to address the Second Grade science standards of the Michigan Science Standards related to Plants. You have just read the general description for this Phenomenal Science Unit. Before you continue your review, it would be very valuable to our field testing process for the 21 Units of Phenomenal Science for us to gather information about those educators who are reviewing each of the Units. Thank you. Please start your review with this BRIEF SURVEY. Enjoy your review. Plants are dependent on their changing environment. Being dependent means a plant will rely on the biome or ecosystem in which it lives. A biome is a place characterized by its climate and the plants and animals that live there. An ecosystem includes all of the living things and non-living (plants, animals, people and organisms) in a given area, interacting with each other, and also with their non-living environments (weather, earth, sun, soil, climate, atmosphere). In an ecosystem, the living things are able to get the things that they need in order to survive. Healthy ecosystems are in balance. In other words, there is enough food, water, and shelter for all of the species that live within the ecosystem. Plants can be impacted by lack of nutrients and other resources, by pathogens, herbivores and animals (people), by disturbances, by dispersal difficulties, and by the physical environment, including its climate. So, because plants are dependent on their changing environments they have evolved adaptations and traits that are passed from the parent plant to their offspring to hopefully help them survive (live and grow) in different areas. Adaptations are special features that allow a plant or animal to live in a particular place or habitat. Some adaptations and traits can include: the plant moving toward the sun; unfurling its leaves faster than nearby taller plants to soak up as much sun before being shaded; growing close to the ground so they're protected from strong winds; have picky, sticky and/or stinky stems; have specially designed protective seed coats to help move its seeds away from the parent plants; have a waxy covering and spikes instead of leaves to prevent water loss; using the water wind, animals (insects), people to help it disperse its seeds away from the parent plant, have roots close to the ground to soak up as much water as possible in a short amount of time; and having colorful flower petals, smell, and nectar to attract certain insects to aid in pollination.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan
1.G All vs. Only some
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: First pose the question: Here are four triangles. What do all of these triangles have in common? What makes them different from the figures that are no...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.NBT Comparing Numbers
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials A spinner with the numbers 0, 1, 2, ... 9 A spinner with the decades 00, 10, 20, ... 90 Math journal or teacher-made worksheet Pencil Actions...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.NBT Ford and Logan Add 45+36
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important aspects of the task and its potential use.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.NBT Where Do I Go?
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials Set of cards from 1-100, these can be purchased or created using a black marker and index cards Setup Sort the 1-100 cards into sequential gr...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.OA 20 Tickets
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials 20 counters or linking cubes per pair of students pencil copy of the problem Actions The teacher poses the problem: Bo bought 20 tickets to p...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.OA Domino Addition
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials A large set of dominoes to affix to a whiteboard or place in a pocket chart, or a regular set to use on a document projector. One set of domi...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.OA, NBT The Very Hungry Caterpillar
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The students work individually or in pairs. Each student or pair needs: Three ten-frames for each s...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
2.G Polygons
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: * Color the inside of all the triangles blue. * Color the inside of all the quadrilaterals red. * Color the inside of all the pentagons orange. * Color...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
2.NBT Many Ways to do Addition 2
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials For each student: * A large index card * A pencil Action Part 1 The teacher will put up the following addition problem: \begin{align} 24 &\ \...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
3.MD, 3.G, 3.NF Halves, thirds, and sixths
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: A small square is a square unit. What is the area of this rectangle? Explain. What fraction of the area of each rectangle is shaded blue? Name the frac...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
1.MD Weather Graph Data
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials * Completed monthly weather recording sheet * Crayons * Sentence strips with frames (see below) * Student worksheet Actions Every day for a m...
Material Type: Activity/Lab
Growing Bean Plants
(View Complete Item Description)This task adds some rigor to the activity of growing bean plants. By collecting growth data, students practice measuring and recording length measurements.
Material Type: Activity/Lab
The Pet Snake
(View Complete Item Description)These word problems represent the "Add To" contexts for addition and subtraction.
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4.G What is a Trapezoid? (Part 1)
(View Complete Item Description)This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Say what a trapezoid is in your own words. Compare your definition with a partner. Is this parallelogram a trapezoid according to your definition? Expl...
Material Type: Activity/Lab