This article includes lessons that elementary teachers can use to build the foundations of climate literacy while meeting elementary science standards. Lessons are paired with literacy activities as well.

This article highlights lessons and activities that ask students to plan expeditions to Antarctica. Students use math, science, and geography to plan their routes, clothing, and food.

This free, online article, developed for elementary teachers, describes a Kindergarten polar science, standards aligned, unit centered on The Polar Express developing literacy, math, and science skills.

This article highlights science lessons about mammals, mammal diversity and adaptations, and polar mammals. Literacy integrations and alignment to national standards are included.

This article provides geography lessons to teach elementary students about the polar regions. Literacy extensions are included for each lesson.

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In this lesson, students will be figuring out the addends that add up to the correct sums. They will also be creating and solving equations with more than two addends.

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In this lesson, students solve a word problem using a strategy of choice and share the strategy to develop the concept of representing and solving problems involving addition and subtraction within 20. This problem type will likely provide an opportunity to explore the commutative property with students. This lesson format may be used with any problem type appropriate for the grade.

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After reading the story, The Silly Story of Goldilocks and the Three Squares, students identify and describe shapes in a variety of orientations.

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This lesson focuses on classifying objects. Kindergarten students gain experiences comparing and identifying likenesses and differences. These experiences build the foundations for understanding relationships and the development of logical reasoning.

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In this lesson, students are introduced to the beaded number line as a tool to help them solve addition and subtraction problems within 20. This lesson is in two parts and may be taught over more than one day.

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In this lesson, students generate "getting to know you" questions, which lead to both numerical and categorical data. Students collect data from classmates, organize the data, and answer questions about it. Questions may include: How many siblings do you have? Do you like ice cream.

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In this lesson, students solve word problems involving addition. This lesson also contains a set of directions/materials for math stations. Stations continue to develop counting and problem solving skills.

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Prior to this lesson, students should have worked with two-dimensional shapes. Additionally, they should have been introduced to three-dimensional shapes and their attributes with the lesson "Guess My Shape".

In this lesson, students will use a variety of materials to build shapes and use math vocabulary to explain their shape.

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This lesson should occur after the Partner Quick Flash lesson, which introduces conceptual subitizing. Candy Quick Flash continues to encourage conceptual subitizing an efficient way to find "how many".

Notes:
Perceptual subitizing: instantly recognizing "how many" in a set
Conceptual subitizing: efficiently finding "how many" by recognizing and combining subgroups within a set

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This is lesson two 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.

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In this lesson, students develop spatial sense by composing shapes to match their teacher's representation.

Having spatial sense means having a feel for the geometric aspects in the environment and how the different shapes can be combined to form different figures. Students do not "grow" this spatial reasoning without having rich experiences that involve shapes and spatial relationships.

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In this lesson, students solve a word problem using a strategy of choice and share the strategy to develop the concept of representing and solving problems involving addition and subtraction within 20. This lesson format may be used with any problem type appropriate for the grade.

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This lesson focuses on comparing sets and numerals using terms greater than, less than, and equal to. The main goal is for students to generate their own sets to compare to a given set.

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The goal of this lesson is for students to understand that plane figures are different from solid figures. Students will identify and locate the face of a solid figure that matches a plane figure, such as the face of a cube is a square, the base of a triangular based pyramid is a triangle.