In this lesson, students classify objects that they collect during a scavenger hunt on their school playground according to living and non-living. They will then create real and pictorial graphs that represent their data.
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In this lesson, students classify items into two pre-determined categories.
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In this lesson, students classify items into three categories, determine the count in each, and reason about how the last number named determines the total.
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After listening to Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krause Rosenthal, show 10 people the picture from the story and ask: 1. "Do you think this is a picture of a duck, a rabbit, or something else?" 2. Record each answer on a tally chart. 3. Write 3 facts about your data. In this activity, students will organize, represent, and interpret data with up to three categories. If the story book is not available, the teacher can show the illustration in the resource URL provided to students for the tallying information.
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In this lesson, students learn about the fall and spring seasons as they compare and contrast the two seasons.
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Students can view a mini page insert which addresses the changing of the season to Spring. These were articles created specifically for elementary students and were published in 1987.
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In this lesson, students collect and measure various rainfall samples and participate in discussions about the rain.
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In this Khan Academy interactive, students will use a variety of representations such as objects and pictures to represent subtraction within 10.
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Students will work with subtraction within 10 by taking 1 away from a number.
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Do you think you can make a map of your classroom? It’s easy with The Cat in The Hat This and That map making tool
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In this lesson, students sequence story events following a class discussion.
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This is a folktale retold by Jan Brett about a little boy whose grandmother knits him a pair of snow white mittens. While he is outside he loses one and some animals, one by one, find it and move in because it looks warm. This story demonstrates scarcity of space and what happens when this occurs.
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In this lesson, students will learn about different types of weather and will make their own weather book. Students will learn about clouds, wind, fog, rain, snow, lightning, thunder, and rainbows. Students will participate in different experiments that show different types of weather.
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In this lesson, students investigate how the weather changes from day to day.
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This web page provides descriptions of several simple activities that can be used with young students when teaching about daily weather and seasonal changes.
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In this lesson, the students will learn about how weather makes the seasons.
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