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Not sure how old your toddler is, but I count everything with my 2 year old to make everything math. Steps, fingers, food, etc.

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I’m looking for a lesson plan and activities for this…..

TEKS/Student Expectations: (2.10) The student uses standard tools to estimate and measure time and temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit).
The student is expected to:
A.Read a thermometer to gather data;
B.Read and write times shown on analog and digital clocks using five-minute increments; and
C.Describe activities that take approximately one second, one minute, and one hour.

Thank You!!!

Do a google search for all three! There are lots of lesson plans on the web, but not all in one place, and I’m sure these topics are covered somewhere…

Or, mabye just start with asking what students already know about the topics (or when they have encountered similar tasks in their everyday lives or in school) and starting an intro discussion, give students background info as needed, explain the tasks, put them into pairs and set them to work, and have a brief sharing of answers and discussion of concepts and results. There could be three stations and student pairs could move from one to the next until all tasks are done, and before the sharing of results, students could record their answers on the board. You can write the standard being tested on the board before th students come into class and use that as the starting point to the lesson.

I am in college studying to be a teacher. I have to make a lesson plan on continental drift or plate tectonics incorporating math. Any ideas?

The lesson is for the sixth grade.

Thanks!

Why not talk about how fast the continent’s are drifting from one another? You can use the drift velocity and the equation x = v*t to predict how predict how far a continent will drift in a certain period of time or how long it would take a continent to drift a certain distance (say one mile). While this is a fairly basic integration of mathematics, you are tying a concept in math to the idea of plate tectonics.

I recently purchased HOmeschool Tracker Plus. I am having trouble finding prepared lesson plans for Saxon math, etc.

The information on where to find lesson plans and how to use them is available on the HST forums: http://forum.homeschooltracker.com/Discuss_Show.aspx?threadid=6675

I’m really horrible at teaching math and coming up with lesson plans and activities. I had the clever idea of observing different teachers at the same school, using their materials and lesson ideas. Basically I’ll do student teaching in 3rd period which is only one period a day. Next semester I have to do 3 periods of student teaching. Now I’m wondering I can observe my master teacher and other teachers and taking great notes, using their materials, create my own lesson plans. In theory, student teaching would be easier because I’m emulating a teacher a period or two before taking over a class a period ahead. This idea is that you can learn to be a master teacher by carefully watching your master teacher even during the same day you’ll student teach.

I know this is not what you want to hear, but you really need to try and come up with your own lesson plans. Even if they are not air tight, you’re lucky right now because you’re still a student and can make mistakes and ask questions without looking like an idiot.

Me, I fudged my way through a lot of my student teaching and then, when I was alone in the classroom just me and 25 second graders, I was totally lost. I had no clue how to write effective lesson plans and basically I had to learn how to do it and show my plans to the grade level chair once a week for almost 3 months of teaching.

You can LOOK at the teacher’s lesson plans, but please love, write your own.

This is a "team teaching" activity and the thematic union is the French Revolution. I have to some how relate that to math. Any body have any ideas??

Find some statistics about the revolution (how many people fought at various times, how many people supported each side, etc) and have the students practice putting data into graph form.

They all do.

The lesson plans are not in the actual books, but in the supplementary materials given to the schools who purchase the books. I get a dvd (they also supply a box with printed copies) every year that holds lesson plans, assessments, auxialiary materials - its quite a bit.

I never use them. My lessons are crafted to my kids needs, not to some arbitrary timeline or pacing plan - so I create my own.

For my child development class, we are to make a lesson plan for the preschoolers. The activity is supposed to be Math and the theme for that month is Farm Animals.
Any suggestions?? I’ve looked online but I just can’t seem to find any good ones!
Thanks!

math is:
counting
sorting
placing objects in order
measuring
estimating
comparing

With the farm animal theme you could:
have the children sort plastic animals. There are a ton of ways to sort them:
by color
by type
hair/feathers
number of legs
lay eggs or not

You can create sequencing cards, like an egg, baby chick, then chicken.

They can count plastic animals.

You can have the children sort seeds in a muffin tin according to type.

Stamping Patterns
Use farm animal rubber stamps to create a simple pattern on the top half of a piece of paper. Ask your child to help you recreate the patterm on the bottom half of the paper. Tip: Start with one stamp, and have your child pick which stamp you used. Start slowly and work your way up to more complicated patterns.

How Many Kernels?
Place some popcorn kernels into a clear plastic container. Have the children guess how many kernels are in the container. Record each child guess. Then count them together.

Hot Potato
Featured on Yummy Yummy by the Wiggles
Play hot potato with the children. Have the children sit in a circle. You can pick an object to be the potato or play with a real one. Sing "Hot Potato, Hot Potato, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10." The child that has the potato on ten goes in the center of the circle, called the pot.

Five little Ducks
Five little ducks, went out to play (hold up five fingers)
over the hills, and far away, (hold hand to eyebrows)
When the mother duck went "Quack Quack Quack"
(motion "quack" with your hand)
Four little Ducks came waddling back.
(make wings with arms and move elbows up and down)
Continue to count down until there are no little ducks then sing:
No little ducks went out to play,
Over the hills and far away,
When the mother duck went "QUACK, QUACK, QUACK,"
Five little ducks came waddling back.

Potatoes
One potato, two potato,
Three potato, four,
Five potato, six potato,
Seven potato, more!

Muffin Math Center
Place pieces of paper numbered 1 through 6 in the bottom on a muffin tin. Supply the children with many beans or plastic farm animals to place in the tins. They will place one object in the "1" tin and two in the "2" and so on. The items you use can be theme based or items from your class such as toy animals, beads, blocks, counting chips, dry pasta.

You can have the children place the plastic farm animals in order from smallest to largest.

Just message me if you need more ideas. Or drop by my webpage and ask on the boards:)
http://www.123child.com/bb/

Good luck:) Amber

There are millions of books like that. You need to be more specific.

I am a student at college studying to be a teacher. On friday I am doing a math lesson that has to do with measurement however I want it to be hands on and have to do with Halloween. I was thinking of doing a lesson where students have to create a costume for a cut-out person by following directions where they have to measure.However I am stuck on what else to do like how to start it and what I should have the students do. Any ideas?

why would you want to be a teacher…teachers are getting fired, not hired, in every state?