Lesson Plans

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Mathematics Lower Elementary - Number Title: What are the different combinations of red and blue arms of the alien? The goal of this lesson is for students to use problem-solving to identify the combinations to break apart ten and the patterns among them. Detailed Lesson Procedure. Lower Elementary - Number Title: Seeing Numbers in Ones and Tens. The goal of this lesson is for students to develop understanding of the structure of 2-digit numbers as tens and ones (place value understanding). Upper Elementary - Area Title: Which Chocolate is the Biggest? The goal of this lesson is for students to recognize that rectangles that have the same area can have different perimeters and that rectangles that have the same perimeter can have different areas. Upper Elementary - Area Title: Can You Find the Area? The goal of this lesson is to use problem solving activities to develop the concept of equivalent area transformation to use as a basis for finding the formulas for the area of a parallelogram, a triangle, and a trapezoid. Video - Can You Find the Area? Upper Elementary - Area Title: Area of Complex Figures The main goal of this lesson is for students to experience composition and decomposition of figures in order to find the area. Upper Elementary - Geometry Title: How many edges do I need to cut in order to open a cube? The goal of this lesson is to deepen students' understanding of three-dimensional geometric objects through problem-solving activities. Board plan. Video - To Open a Cube. Science Upper Elementary - Levers Title: Can You Lift 100 kilograms? The goal of this lesson is to enable students to investigate the design and operation of levers by changing the position from which effort is exerted and the amount of effort. Upper Elementary - Pendulums Title: The Secret of Trapezes. In this set of lessons, the students investigate three factors: the weight of the clay on the trapeze; the angle of release; and the length of the wire.