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Using Complex Text to Build Content Knowledge (Motter)
In this lesson, students are using a specific document to examine the grievances of women in the United States as they work to attain e…
These resources were created for and previously found on Teaching the Core, a website funded by The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust. This collection of classroom videos and associated lesson materials was developed in 2013 to support K-12 educators implementing the Common Core State Standards. As all of the participants were at that time early in their own work with those standards, these videos were not intended to be exemplars. Rather, they showed real-life classrooms, with all the real-life challenges and successes found therein. Learn more about Teaching the Core.
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In this lesson, students are using a specific document to examine the grievances of women in the United States as they work to attain e…
The instruction of this lesson centers on a close reading of a rich and rigorous nonfiction text about penguins. The teacher targets ac…
This Kindergarten lesson focuses primarily on K.OA.A.1 and K.OA.A.2. Students are solving addition and subtraction word problems using …
This short lesson is focused on 5.NF.A.1 - adding fractions with unlike denominators by replacing the given fractions with equivalent f…
This lesson explores 2.OA.C.4 - working with rectangular arrays and writing addition equations to show the total in order to gain a fou…
This lesson focuses on G-CO.C.11: developing properties of rectangles, using those properties, and proving theorems about special paral…
This engaging kindergarten math lesson focuses on all three aspects of rigor: students practice fluency while representing numbers; the…
This lesson primarily focuses on 4.NBT.B.4 - fluently adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.&nbs…
This lesson focuses on students solving systems of equations algebraically, building on the work they have previously done with graphin…
This lesson focuses on 6.EE.B.5 - understanding how to use a specified set of values and substitution to determine which of those value…
This lesson is focused on 1.OA.C.6, using the relationship between addition and subtraction, and 1.OA.B.3, applying properties of opera…
This lesson focuses on 4.NBT.B. and 4.NBT.B.5, using place value understanding to multiply two-digit by two-digit numbers. Students wor…
This lesson looks at the structure of the algebraic rule of the function and how it can be seen in a table and graph. Students ar…
This lesson is part 2 of 2 lesson that uses a "Guess the Age" activity to generate student data, create scatterplots, and find a line o…
In this lesson, students use the partial quotients method to divide 3-digit dividends by one-digit divisors without remainders (4.NBT.B…
This is part 1 of 2 lessons using a "Guess the Age" activity to generate student data, create scatterplots, and find a line of best fit…
This lesson focuses on K.OA.A.2, solving addition word problems, and K.OA.A.1 & K.CC.B.4, representing addition with objects, drawi…
This lesson focuses on 1.NBT.2: understanding that the digits in a 2-digit number represent tens and ones. In previous lessons, s…
This lesson focuses on the conceptual understanding aspect of 5.NF.A.2--using visual fraction models to add two fractions with unlike d…
This lesson focuses on 3.OA.A.3 - using multiplication strategies to solve a word problem (note that the required computation is slight…
This lesson focuses on 5.NF.A.1 -add (and subtract) fractions with unlike denominators, using equivalent fractions. Students demonstrat…
This lesson focuses on 2.OA.A.1 - representing and solving problems involving addition and subtraction within 100. The teacher leads st…
The content focus is on inscribed and circumscribed angles. This lesson uses an Error Analysis Technique to reteach concepts students d…
This lesson focuses on 3.OA.B.5 - using properties of operations to solve multiplication problems. Students work with drawing arrays to…
This lesson focuses on 2.NBT.6 - adding up to four 2-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations. …
Pre-Modeling activity helps students understand what a residual means in relation to a data set and a graph. A linear model is used her…
This lesson focuses on 1.OA.C.6, using strategies to add and subtract within 20, and 1.OA.D.7, determining if equations are equal or no…
This lesson focuses on 5.NF.A.1 and 5.NF.A.2: Adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators. Students use models and …
This lesson uses several different representations to demonstrate exponential growth and decay to students. There is physical model, ta…
This lesson was a exploration lesson where students continued to build their understanding and application of multiplication and divisi…
This lesson develops students' conceptual understanding of percent change, including models of percent change and identifying and using…
Addresses Standard: 1.NBT.B.2 This excerpt from a larger lesson is an introduction to place value for first grade students. The video b…
After reading, annotating and discussing the article, "Is Summer Break Necessary?", this class returns to the text again to begin …
This lesson focuses on 6.EE.A.4: identifying equivalent expressions. Students work together using learned strategies to determine wheth…
In this lesson, students are engaged in a shared inquiry about a piece of text, "A Game of Catch." To begin the lesson, the teach…
This lesson focuses on K.OA.A.3: Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way (e.g., by using objec…
This lesson is taught after students have had several days working with the same piece of complex text. The piece of text is a pe…
In this lesson, students are on the fourth read aloud of the text, Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. The focus of the lesson is a serie…
Prior to this lesson, students have read and annotated four different texts about sources of income for the state of Nevada:&…
This lesson integrates multiple standards to facilitate students' understanding of multiple meaning words. The lesson is care…
In this lesson, students make evidence-based connections and arguments through authentic discussion facilitated completely by group mem…
Part of a broader study of diverse communities, in this reading comprehension lesson first grade students compare two characters in the…
In this lesson, students bring to class annotations and questions to help analyze a poem. The teacher draws the student's attenti…
In this lesson, the teacher conducts a close reading of the text, with a focus on vocabulary and author's craft. Through a well-planned…
In this lesson, students use a richly-illustrated text to identify the similarities and differences between characters. The activi…
The students in this lesson utilized a variety of tools to solve, illustrate, and write an equation for addition and subtraction word p…
This lesson focuses on 8.EE.8.c and 8.EE.8.a: solving problems leading to simultaneous equations and understanding that points of…
This lesson focuses on 2.OA.A.1 - solving one-step comparing word problems using mental strategies. Students choose a previously learne…
This lesson is focused on 5.NF.B.3: interpreting fractions as division of the numerator by the denominator, in the context of a real wo…
Students use part-part-whole boxes to organize math in a class read aloud. Students work with a partner to solve real life problems. T…
This lesson focuses on three standards: 3.OA.C.7, 3.OA.A.3, and 3.OA.D.8. During the warm-up part of the lesson, students practice stra…
This is Day 2 of a lesson focusing on the conceptual understanding aspect of 5.NF.2--using visual fraction models to add two fractions …
This lesson is a Number Talk that focuses on 2.NBT.B.5 and 2.NBT.B.6 - adding three 2-digit numbers using mental strategies. The teache…
This lesson focuses on 6.EE.B.6 and 6.EE.C.9 - using variables to represent numbers in solving real world problems. Students are given …
This lesson focuses mainly on 3.NF.A.3--understanding that the size of a fractional part is related to the size of the whole. Students …
This lesson is intended to further develop students’ understanding of trigonometric functions and graphs. Students investigate ho…
This lesson focuses on 8.EE.C.8. Students work to transform equations into slope-intercept form and graph them. They explain their thin…
The lesson focuses on 2.OA.1 as students add using number strings. Students discuss and share strategies for thinking. This video was …
Students are solving five word problems within their small groups. Groups must decide if the problems multiplication or division of fra…
In this Number Talk, the students are working on strategies for mentally adding and subtracting within 100. They demonstrate fluency wi…