Subject: Math

Skills: Holidays, Listening & Speaking, Math, Reading, and Social Emotional

Description: Why not help strengthen your classroom community with this Thanksgiving Friendship Feast? Your students will help to alter a recipe involving fractions, prepare food, and practice building positive social relationships with others, all while enjoy a nice meal as a class. (Suggested for Grades 1-7)

Skills: Math, ELA, Science, or Social Studies, Teamwork, Holiday

Description: Your students will have an “egg”citing time running through a relay around the classroom, having to stop at each work station to complete a problem without dropping their egg (all before the timer runs out)! Create question cards to link to the current content in your classroom and watch as your students work in teams to solve problems and earn points. The challenge is carrying an egg on a spoon when moving from one question to the next. This activity can be adapted for grades K-5.

Skills: Math, Art

Description: Ready to incorporate art in your math lesson? Students will need to solve varies types of equations (select types you are currently practicing) to reveal amounts of specific objects them must include in their own unique spring drawing. (Grades K-5)

Skills: Math, Holiday, 2D Shapes/ 3D Shapes, Fractions, Sorting/Categorizing

Description: A hands on activity sorting candy by shape and/or attributes. The lesson can be differentiated by practicing 2D shapes, 3D shapes, and fractions.

Description: A STEAM holiday lesson has students using differentiated writing templates to write about their elf, creating their elf, and then using collaborative teamwork to engineer a trap to catch an elf.

Skills: Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes Use models to demonstrate understanding that a ...

Description: Interpreting and explaining the "why" of  the relationship between division fractions can be challenging for our 5th graders.  In this interactive and scripted 2 segment bundle (30-60 minutes each) your students will:

• Collaborate with peers to practice the "language" of math in strategic and purposeful partnerships and take "math" notes
• Use models to demonstrate understanding that a fraction is the result of dividing the numerator by the denominator
• Solve word problems involving the division of whole numbers resulting in proper fractions
• Draw and use models to represent fractions that are a result of dividing whole objects into smaller pieces
• Demonstrate their understanding of this skill by playing  "Fractions as Division Pictionary"
• Complete an exit slip to help you determine instructional next steps

CCSS: 5.NF.3