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“The Mendenhall Glacier” Informational ELA Bundle & Equivalent Fractions Math Bundle

3rd Grade • Lesson Plan Bundle
$10.00
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Quick Facts

Subject: ELA, Informational, Math, Numbers and Operations Fractions

Type: Lesson Plan Bundle

Skills: ELA:

  • Work with partners to collaborate, ask and answer text dependent questions with the support of strategic sentence frames
  • Brainstorm, plan and write their own informational "book"
  • Participate in a science connection activity
  • Write a Haiku poem based on glaciers and ice cubes
Math: Generate Equivalent Fractions, Visual Models (Shapes & Number Lines), Compare Fractions (<, >, or =)

Materials Needed: ELA: 

  • Blank pieces of white paper (2 per student)
  • Lined paper
  • Pencils, crayons
  • Document camera/chart paper/ or whiteboard (used for examples)
Math: blank paper (3 pieces per student), pencils, crayons, document camera or whiteboard, ruler (optional), scissors, 1 of the following: printable game cards -or- index cards (38 per pair) -or- 5 pieces of paper per pair

Printable Resources: ELA:  Required:

  • student copies of the informational texts: "The Mendenhall Glacier" and "Thermal Expansion" (1 copy of each per student)
  • 1 copy of pictures from the document (color copy if possible)
Math: Required: printable number line handouts (1 per student); Optional: printable "Exit Slips" as an assessment component (1 copy per student); Optional: printable equivalent fractions visual model (1 copy per student); Optional: printable game cards (1 set per group)

CCSS: RI.3.1, RI.3.2, RI.3.3, RI.3.4, 3.NF.A.3.B

File Type: PDF Document

Lesson Plan Description

This whole day bundle contains:

ELA:

Engaging students in reading and developing reading for meaning skills is a foundational goal for 3rd graders. This bundle of 4 lessons includes “closer looking” and close reading of an included informational text “The Mendenhall Glacier”.  Your students will:

  • Segment 1: collaborate with partners in order to analyze and draw inferences about photographs of an unknown location
  • Segment 2: students will produce a “book”; which includes: cause and effect, vocabulary, and key details
  • Segment 3: analyze a second text source to continue their creation of a book which includes: cause and effect, vocabulary, and key details.
  • BONUS- Segment 4: create a visual comparison of glaciers and ice cubes and write a Haiku poem that captures the intent of the text.

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.

Math:

This bundle of lesson plans is broken down into 3 separate segments (30-60 minutes each) addressing Numbers and Operations-Fractions: recognizing and generating equivalent fractions. These lessons included: key vocabulary, helpful notes for reference, generating and identifying fractions using visual models (shapes & number lines), guided and independent practice of concept, and a game to reinforce the concept of equivalent fractions.

  • Segment 1: students will generate equivalent fractions using a visual model (shapes).
  • Segment 2: students will locate equivalent fractions on a number line and generate equivalent fractions on a number line.
  • Segment 3: students will locate equivalent fractions on a number line and compare fractions (<, >, or =).

These lessons can be taught over the span of a half day or you can use the lessons independently, broken up over several days.