Students use words, pictures, or numbers to explain why addition or subtraction works. The lesson is divided into 3 sections. Click on the number 1 to see the beginning of the lesson, the number 2 to see the middle, and the number 3 to see the end of the lesson.

Students will participate in "cooperative conversation" and demonstrate understanding of why it is important in the everyday learning environment.

In this lesson, students learn to focus on evidence to support interpretation of literature, and work with direct and indirect characterization to analyze the allegory of The Minister's Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

In this lesson, students divide an irregular shape into rectangles to help them find the area of an irregular shape.

In this lesson, students look for break apart irregular polygons to make arrays to find the area of those common shapes.

Students will be using discovery techniques to learn about box and whisker plots.

Students look for equivalency patterns using fraction circle models and look for and make use of structure.

Students will analyze various works of art. Students will then gather and analyze data to make generalizations about culture and tradition.

In this lesson, students will be able to place numbers 1-100 on a hundred chart, and students will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge of larger numbers.

Students will be able to compare and analyze key scenes in Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet with the 1968 Zeffirelli film version of the same play.

In this lesson, students will be able to identify and use the basic components of a book.

In this lesson, students compose an essay in which they connect the visual interpretations of The Story of Ruby Bridges and evaluate the content of each.

In this lesson, students will articulate the key elements of the demographic transition model and construct graphs of contemporary demographic change. Then they will explain contemporary demographic patterns in the context of the classic demographic transition model.

In this lesson, students use area models to find the total area of a store, home, or other real world space.

In this lesson, students calculate area, build areas to a given amount, and calculate the perimeter with the use of Legos.

Students will be able to distinguish shades of meaning among verbs describing the same general action by acting out the meanings. Students will also be able to compare and contrast elements within the story and elements between stories.

This lesson includes historical notes on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and a student literary analysis that includes characterization, satire, archetype, and foil. Also included is a SOAPstone (speaker, occasion, audience, purpose, tone) analysis activity.

Students will be using real life data to create and analyze histograms. They will be surveying their classmates and using data from other grade levels to compare same topic information in a histogram.

Students will be able to analyze multiple texts to determine point of view. Students will be able to distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or characters as well as describe how a narrator's or speaker's point of view influences how events are described.