Lesson Plans

The lesson plans in this section are intended to support teachers as they are thinking about the methods they use in order to meet the individual needs of their students. Lessons should be planned to engage students and to connect the activities with the mathematics content. Each lesson should have a clear goal, and every part of that lesson-from the opening activity to the final summary-should be goal-focused, helping to move students toward a clearer understanding of the concepts at hand. These lessons are designed to: actively engage students, make use of real-world situations, and connect the mathematics concepts with the concepts that students have already learned. We encourage you to build on these plans and tailor them to the needs of your students.

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Title	Lesson Topic	Grade	Lesson Length
Can You Build It?	Perimeter	3	40 minutes
Can You Name That Shape?	Polygons	2-4	80 minutes
Find the Shape	Using ordered pairs to identify, locate, and plot points on the coordinate plane	4-5	40 minutes
Geoboard Squares	Squares and patterns	2-3	50 minutes
How Close Is Our Estimate?	Estimation and measurement	5	50 minutes
Investigating Nets and Polyhedra	Three-dimensional shapes and their nets	5	50 minutes
It's a 3-D World Out There!	Polyhedra	2-4	80 minutes
Reflections	Reflections and glide reflections	5	50 minutes
Rep Tiles	Creating similar shapes using a single shape	3	60 minutes
Rep Tiles	Creating similar shapes using a single shape	4-5	50-75 minutes
The Sum of the Interior Angles of a Polygon	Decomposing polygons into triangles to find a formula for the sum of the interior angles of a polygon with n sides.	4-5	50-75 minutes
Tiling the Plane	Tiling the plane with pattern blocks	2-3	30 minutes
Tiling the Plane	Tiling the plane with pattern blocks	5	50 minutes
Traveling around Our Town	Tracing a path on a grid from one location to another	1-2	30 minutes
Visualizing Multiplication	Area model for multiplication	3-5	50 minutes