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This is lesson four in a series of six lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. While this lesson addresses standard NC.1.MD.4, its primary goal is for students to become comfortable talking with others, posing questions, and collecting data from one another. A secondary goal is to begin establishing norms for how students work together during math class.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

This is lesson one in a series of six lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. While this lesson addresses standard NC.1.NBT.7, its primary goal is for students to learn how to work with classmates on activities related to counting and number sense and engage in real-world math situations.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

This is lesson one in a series of six lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. The primary goal of this lesson is for students to begin establishing norms for math class. A secondary goal is to start exploring a non-standard problem that has more than one possible solution.

This resource is part of Tools4NCTeachers.

This is lesson five in a series of six lessons focused around developing a mathematical community at the beginning of the school year. The goal is to promote the idea of persevering while solving problems.

This resource discusses how different immigrant groups create social organizations and communities in different nations and how they take care of their own people and become part of the larger community.

This is an encyclopedia entry for the term "ecosystem." An ecosystem is a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life. Text for this entry is appropriate for the middle and high school grade levels.