This article describes some common misconceptions that elementary students may have about plants. It also includes suggestions for formative assessment and teaching for conceptual change.

This lesson is Day 1 in a series of 12 lessons around fraction equivalences and comparisons.

This video lesson encourages students to reason about and visualize fractions. The lesson focuses on the ideas that fractions are fair shares and that fractions can be compared. This lesson assumes that students have some initial experiences with fractions.

This article highlights hands-on or multimedia lesson plans about plant structures, growth and development, seed production, and dispersal. Science lessons are paired with suggested literacy lesson plans. All lessons are aligned to national standards.

Students will decide on the best place to put the camera. A shop owner wants to prevent shoplifting. He decides to install a security camera on the ceiling of his shop.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.In this lesson, students partition circles into halves, thirds and fourths as they create fraction flowers.  Student recording sheets and sample pictures of student work are included within the lesson.  Links to virtual tools and extension ideas are also provided.  Remix this lesson to include pictures of your students' work!

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  In this lesson students are introduced to the vocabulary associated with partitioning shapes into equal shares. Students will also explore shapes that are partitioned into halves, thirds, and fourths. Student recording sheets and pictures of anchor charts are included within this lesson. 

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In this lesson, students are introduced to Number Talks involving dot cards. Students develop efficient strategies for finding "how many" dots are on each card. Strategies relate to first grade addition concepts.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  This is a set of four tasks, which may be used for instruction or assessment.  Each file contains a separate task, rubric, and recording sheets.  Students are asks to parittion shapes into equal parts, with a focus on halves and fourths.Remix this resource to include extension ideas or addtional tasks.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers. This file contains a set of 4 tasks (including scoring rubric, recording sheet, printable materials, and student work samples).  The tasks may be used for instruction or assessment. The focus of standard G.3 is on partitioning circles and rectangles into 2, 3, and 4 equal shares.  Most of this resource focuses on partitioning rectangles.  Please remix this resource to add additional circle tasks. Sharing is caring!

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers. In this lesson, students explore partitioning shapes into halves and fourths.  The lesson could be taught consecutively in one math block or extended over multiple days depending on students’ understanding of the concept of halves and fourths.

This resource is from Tools4NCTeachers.  In this lesson, students will determine ways to partition a sandwich into two equal parts and determine if the halves are the same size.  Then students will work with partners to determine different ways to partition a sandwich into fourths and prove that the fourths are equal shares. Sample student work and recording sheets are provided within this lesson.Remix this lesson to share extension activities and related math centers.