1571 Look at Me: Freckle Face Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students listen to a story about freckles and then tally how many of their classmates have or do not have freckles. They line up to create a human bar graph.... 1572 Powerful Patterns-2: Sorting Time Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In the first half of the lesson, students sort objects by one or two characteristics into simple Venn diagrams made of yarn. In the second half of the lesson, they make simple repeating patterns with the objects they have sorted.... 1573 Powerful Patterns-4: Playing With Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–1 Professional Commentary: Students identify the cores of repeating patterns and reproduce them in different modalities: auditory, visual, and kinesthetic. They may also use a pattern blocks applet to create patterns using different shapes.... 1574 How Many More Fish?: Counting Back Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students listen to a story and sing a song that refers to subtracting one element at a time from a set of ten elements. They make sets with one more or one less element than a given set.... 1575 Exploration of a Balance: Keeping in Balance Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson is the first of four multi-level lessons that explore balance, mass, and the length of the mass arm. Students balance a ruler on a crayon and then record the positions at which two similar paper clips balance, one on each end of the ruler.... 1576 Information Represented Graphically: What's the Weather? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This first lesson in a multi-level, multi-lesson site engages students in analyzing information represented in a picture graph. Students are asked to describe, discuss, read, and write about the graph and the information it contains.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Students read Frog & Toad Are Friends and, as in the story, try to identify a button according to the properties it does NOT have. An activity sheet and Internet extensions are included.... 1578 Begin with Buttons- 1: Button Trains Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students make button trains and describe order using vocabulary such as before, after, and between. They describe position using ordinal numbers up to 10.... 1579 Begin With Buttons-7: Shirts Full of Buttons Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on two major ideas. Students first make a bar graph depicting the number of students who have specified numbers of buttons on their clothes.... 1580 Amazing Attributes: Properties Everywhere Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson is an introduction to the idea of sorting objects according to a single but varied criterion. The site includes activity and recording sheets, discussion questions, extensions, suggestions for assessment, Internet resources, and reflection questions for the teacher.... |