This is a task from the Illustrative Mathematics website that is one part of a complete illustration of the standard to which it is aligned. Each task has at least one solution and some commentary that addresses important asects of the task and its potential use. Here are the first few lines of the commentary for this task: Materials The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle The students work individually or in pairs. Each student or pair needs: Three ten-frames for each s...

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Carolyn Harris teach about sorting shapes according to one or two attributes.

This informational text explore adaptations that allow penguins, whales, walruses, seals, and fish to live in the cold water of the Arctic and Southern Oceans. The text is at a reading level appropriate for second through third grade. This version is a full-color pdf file that can be printed, cut, and folded to form a book. Each book contains color photographs and illustrations.

Students will categorize attribute blocks based on their color, thickness and/or size. Optionally, connections to categorizing will be related to robots (e.g. looks, motions, sounds) and coding.

Science Instructional Plans (SIPs) help teachers align instruction with the Science Standards of Learning (SOL) by providing examples of how the content and the scientific and engineering practices found in the SOL and curriculum framework can be presented to students in the classroom.

Overview of the activity:The students will sort and graph the items given to them and discuss the way they are sorted. They will then complete a graph of the items, and then we will construct and build with the items and explain what they build and how tall it is.

This lesson addresses 2018 Virginia Science Standards of Learning 1.2a, “The student will investigate and understand that objects can move in different ways. Key ideas include a) objects may have straight, circular, spinning, and back-and-forth motions.During this investigation, students predict and test the motions of six objects.  

This Science lesson covers Science SOL 1.1 i and reviews Math SOL 1.12. In this lesson the students will identify the color of their eyes and use this information to make a pictograph. The class will make a class graph with the option of students then creating their own graph. The students will then analyze the pictograph and answer questions. 

Teach about the Fibonacci sequence being a series of numbers and which is found reflected in nature.  Students create artwork based on the sequence.

This resource is a remix from Illustrative Mathematics https://tasks.illustrativemathematics.org/content-standards/tasks/1086.Considering the original resource, there are a few suggestions added to the remix. Modification 1 - Instead of providing students one type of bean ( as originally stated), it would allow curiosity if students were provided with an assorted selection of beans/seeds like sunflower seed, carrot seed, peas and bean, along with which the unifix cubes can be color-coded for each bean/seed. This would benefit all types of learners as they will be able to visualize and build a concrete conceptual understanding of the content.  Modification 2 - This modification allows students to choose the unit of measure and provide them with different types of ruler ( mm, cm and inches), promoting mathematical discourse on customary and metric conversions as they engage in selecting the appropriate unit of measure. This allows students to identify the unit of measure in an active learning environment. As teachers incorporate these two modifications, it allows students to develop a growth mindset by understanding how mathematics and science go hand in hand, encouraging literacy within the curriculum.   

This is a lesson for first grade to talk about how technology has changed our lives over the years. I have it related to the first settlers and the experience they may have had if they had today's technology.  We also will discuss the technology we use today in our rooms vs what used to be used and how our behavior online can affect us even when people can't see us. 

The students will design and build a tent structure, working within a small group or partnership, that will keep the area under the tent cooler than the area in the sun.  The structure will allow a small toy to fit underneath along with a thermometer. The students will use the materials provided by the teacher in the time frame allowed in the classroom.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Dr. Deborah Fuge teach about making and reading graphs.

Students investigate to discover life needs of a plant.  Students will have one plant with all needs to compare with a second that is missing either water or sunlight. 

Students will survey how paper is being used and conserved in their school.  They will create a conservation plan, communicate the plan to the school, and then survey to determine the efficiency of their plan.

This lesson is for Networking and the Internet. The student will learn the difference between a network and the internet. They will be reminded of the importance of internet security and safety and how not everything on the internet is real. This lesson will use videos, books and hand on time to understand the how a network vs the internet works.

Students will classify random animals based on each animal's attributes. They will get to investigate the physical characteristics of each animal during this hands-on sorting activity. Students will strengthen their ability to categorize and classify. 

Students will practice communicating information to their peers with and without the use of technology.