Games and Play Today and Yesterday in Louisiana
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5
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| Students explore
play and games of earlier times by interviewing an elder and
researching toys. In cooperative groups they create a slideshow
of their findings. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5
36, 37, 41, 45.
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Louisiana Animal Newsletter
Grade-Level
Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5
18,
19, 22, 26, 27, 28, 30, 31, 43, 44, 47 |
Your Career Choice
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 8
|
| In this lesson
students will brainstorm career ideas and research a career of
choice. They will present their findings by creating a trading
card. A collaborative group of three students will create a
Career Newspaper using the career research information |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5
8, 21, 26, 27, 30, 31, 43, 46, 47 |
Where Do Your Belongings Come From?
Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 3 - 5 |
Where Will We Eat?
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 6
|
| The students will
identify advertising techniques used in restaurant
advertisements. This lesson can be used to teach health,
nutrition, or food - related topics |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5
8, 22, 23, 38, 39 |
Marshmallow Snowmen
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 3 - 6
|
| The students will
use their 5 senses to complete a sense matrix. Using a writing
graphic organizer, students will write a paragraph that will
persuade a friend to eat a marshmallow. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 |
Musical Nouns and Verbs
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 4 - 5
|
| This lesson is
designed to introduce nouns and verbs. They will learn
techniques and a variety of strategies used in demonstrating
understanding of the parts of speech to make choices for
writing. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 29. |
Study Wise
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 12
|
| Students will use
fundamental electronic and computer skills to access and
research the study skill technique related to their own personal
learning style. These study skill/strategies can be used to
improve the student’s performance on any of their English
assignments. Based on their findings, students will present oral
and written reports containing information that they believe
will make them successful academically. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 28, 34, 41. |
Unmasking the Myth...Writing for L.E.A.P.
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 4 - 8
|
| Teachers and
students will learn there is No Myth to writing for L.E.A.P. or
any other purpose. This lesson's content is directly related to
the English/Language Arts content standards for organizing a
composition, composing for a specific purpose or audience,
completing the writing process, and judging the components of a
personal writing through self-reflection |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 18, 19, 20, 21 |
Literature with Kimberly Willis Holt
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 6
|
| Students will learn
all about Kimberly Willis Holt, a children's author from
Louisiana. They will read one of her books "Mister and Me" and
complete journal writing, and a quilt square. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 5, 8, 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 |
Inquiring Minds Want to Know
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 3 - 6
|
| This English
Language Arts lesson will inspire students to read and
understand non-fiction. The students will read creative
journalism dealing with the supernatural. Then through research
of non-fiction articles, they will discover the true story
behind the supernatural and communicate their findings to the
rest of the class. This will make a great Halloween lesson!
|
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 - 12, 15, 16, 17, 43, 45, 46, 47 |
I Have No Money, Would You Take Wampum?
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Today's lesson will
help you learn about how people received goods and services
before there were coins and paper money. You will also see that
this exchange called trade or barter is still used |
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Candy Bar Stories
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 8
|
| Students use online
candy bar wrappers to create stories containing similes and/or
metaphors about their school and teacher
|
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 42, 46 |
Character Traits (UDL)
| Subject Area:
English/Language Arts Grade Level: 5 - 8
|
| Students will
identify character traits for the main characters in two of Jack
London's short stories set in the Klondyke area in the late
1800's. They will create a modern day character of their own,
giving him the traits from one of the characters they've
evaluated. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 5, 7, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 |
The Factor Game
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 5 |
| This investigation
is based on the Factor Game from the Prime Time unit of the
Connected Mathematics Project. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 - 8, 9 |
Measuring Up
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 5 - 6
|
| Students will
identify and compare various food measuring utensils and
containers and use them properly to measure food quantities.
This lesson can be used to teach health, nutrition, or food -
related topics |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 - 19, 20 |
My Favorite Candy
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 4 - 5
|
| Graphs and charts
are used in our every day lives and are a very important
communication tool. They also promote mathematical thinking
skills, and problem solving skills. This lesson requires the
student to use processing skills that are important in order to
develop critical thinking skills. Students poll their
schoolmatesand construct graphs to determine the favorite types
of candy |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 - 28 |
Pigs in the Pantry
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 8
|
| From elementary
school all the way into high school math, the basics of
converting gallons-half/gallons-quarts-pints-cups are taught,
but not always remembered. To help your students with this
fundamental, this lesson utilizes estimation, children's
literature (Pigs in the Pantry by Amy Axelrod), visual drawings,
hundreds board activities, recipes, to three-dimensional
representations (Mr. Measurement). |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 10, 15, 19, 23. |
Teaching, Learning, and Communicating about Fractions
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Learning about
fractions is an important mathematical goal in grades 3-5. The
activity shown in these video clips helps students develop an
understanding of several important aspects of fractions,
including fractions as parts of a unit whole, representing
fractions on a number line, and equivalent fractions (See
Related 3-5 Number and Operation Standard). An important part of
the activity is helping students explain and communicate their
thinking. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 2, 9 |
Fruit by the Foot
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 4 - 7
|
| This is a
measurement lesson that engages the students with creative and
fun hands on manipulatives. The lesson reinforces/explores
several strands of mathematics such as number sense, estimation,
(length, surface area, volume), data analysis, probability, and
discrete math in a real-life situation. Math is fun when
students are actively engaged in their own learning styles.
|
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 9, 15, 28 |
Data Collection: Part 1 - Categorical Data
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Lesson Summary:
Students will formulate and refine questions that can be
addressed with categorical data. They will consider aspects of
data collection such as how to word questions and how to record
the data they collect. Finally they will represent and analyze
the data in order to answer the question posed. (Adapted from
Principles and Standards, pages 176-178) |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 28, 31 |
Data Collection: Part 2 - Numerical Data
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Lesson Summary:
Students will pose and refine questions that can be addressed
with numerical data. They will consider aspects of data
collection such as how to obtain measurements and record the
data they collect. They will represent, then analyze the ordered
numerical data by describing the shape and important features of
a set of data and compare related data sets, with an emphasis on
how the data are distributed. In collecting data, students will
measure with standard units and carry out simp... |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 31 |
Data Collection: Part 3 - Comparing Categorical and
Numerical Data
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| In this
Illuminations lesson, students will compare and contrast
categorical and numerical data, based upon their work in
previous lessons. They will use graphs they created in earlier
lessons, analyze data, and create new graphs using both
categorical and numerical data |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 28, 29, 31 |
Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web
Part 1: National Population Projections
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| In this activity,
students will examine the United States Census Bureau website to
investigate population projections from 1990-2100. Using the
five provided pyramids, students will analyze the data to
determine how the population is distributed over time, and
explain what factors might contribute to these trends. This
activity is Part 1 of Accessing and Investigating Data Using the
World Wide Web Internet Mathematics Excursions (i-MEs). Data
sets available on the Internet are valuable resourc |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 28, 31
|
Accessing and Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web
Part 2: State Population Projections
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| In this activity,
students will examine the United States Census Bureau website to
investigate projections of the total population of states from
1995-2025. Using the provided data, students will analyze
statistics from five states of their choice, develop specific
research questions using the data, and create three graphs to
compare and contrast the information. This activity is Part 2 of
"(i-ME)Internet Mathematics Excursions: Accessing and
Investigating Data Using the World Wide Web." Data ...
|
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 28, 31 |
Chrysanthemum
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 4 - 6
|
| In this lesson,
students participate in mathematics investigations and
problem-solving tasks to discover the meaning of the statistical
concepts of mean, median, and mode. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 8, 28 |
City Hopping: Planning a Business Trip
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Teams of students
play the role of applicants for a job as assistant to the
president of a large company. As part of the interviewing
process, each team must plan a multi-city trip for the firm's
president and present a proposed travel schedule and budget. To
put together their best travel plan, students study a map,
consider different routes, visit a web site to get airline
schedules and costs, and analyze their data. Each team presents
its travel schedule and budget to the class. Then teams an...
|
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 8, 28 |
Cooperative Carbon Copy LEGO Creations
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: K - 12
|
| The purpose of this
activity is to provide an opportunity for students to develop a
number of skills that are important for successful math
experiences. Those skills include cooperation, observation,
communication, memory, accuracy, and description |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 24, 33 |
Communicating about Mathematics Using Games
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Mathematical games
can foster mathematical communication as students explain and
justify their moves to one another. In addition, games can
motivate students and engage them in thinking about and applying
concepts and skills. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 3, 4, 6, 9 |
Collecting, Representing, and Interpreting Data Using
Spreadsheets and Graphing Software: Collecting and Examining Weather
Data
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| Spreadsheets and
graphing software are tools for organizing, representing, and
comparing data. This activity illustrates how weather data can
be collected and examined using these tools. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 28, 30, 31 |
Exploring Properties of Rectangles and Parallelograms
Using Dynamic Software
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 5
|
| This Internet
Mathematics Excursion is based on an E-example from the NCTM
Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. In this
activity, students will use dynamic software to examine the
properties of rectangles and parallelograms, and identify what
distinguishes a rectangle from a more general parallelogram.
Using spatial relationships, they will examine the properties of
two-and three-dimensional shapes |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 24, 25, 26 |
Does Your Lunch Satisfy?
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 5 - 8
|
| Students will
become familiar with the Gale Group Databases and World Book
Online, which are part of the Louisiana K-12 Online Database
Resource project. Students will visit the Internet site of
their favorite restaurant and examine the nutritional quality of
a typical meal that they would consume. The students will
perform mathematical operations to determine how their choice
compares to the Daily Recommended Allowance guidelines. Students
will then create a "Heart-Healthful... |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5
2 |
Developing Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills
through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: K - 5
|
| Describing figures
and visualizing what they look like when they are transformed
through rotations or flips or are put together or taken apart in
different ways are important aspects of geometry. |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 25 |
Working With Polygons: The Greedy Triangle
| Subject Area:
Mathematics Grade Level: 3 - 6
|
| Students work with
literature, hands-on mathematics, and technology to investigate
polygons and their characteristics |
Grade-Level Expectations (GLEs):
Grade 5 24, 25, 26 |
