Lesson+A

Lesson A

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Goals: Content Standards- MKM1. Students will group objects according to common properties such as longer/shorter, more/less, taller/shorter, and heavier/lighter a. Compare and order objects on the basis of height.

ISTE Net Standards: Creativity and Innovation

Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:

a.apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas, products, or processes. b.create original works as a means of personal or group expression. c.use models and simulations to explore complex systems and issues. d.identify trends and forecast possibilities.

Instructional Objective: The student will begin to recognize how the size of something is determined.

Introduction to the unit problem.

Introduce the lesson by reading "The Biggest Best Snowman" and discuss how do we know which snowman is the biggest or the best?

State the essential question and write it on chart paper: How can I compare objects by height?

Assign students a partner task with snowmen involving technology and manipulatives. The students are to figure out how to solve the problem of which snowman is the biggest or the best using these resources. They will first go the computer and explore with this game interactive snowman game. []

They will then using a variety of sizes of white circles, will create three snowman of different sizes. They will have unifix cubes to help them determine which snowman is the biggest and the best.

We will then come back to whole group and share our findings.

Finally we will brainstorm how we could compare these snowmen and determine this.

The students assessment is based on the collaboration rubric.