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Math for early childhood
Fractions | Making a Farm | Project Based Learning
At the end of this Fractions – Making a Fraction Farm your students will have produced a farm based on fractions, decimals and percentages. Each step in this project based learning project is clearly explained and supported by resources in the pack.
Included in this PowerPoint are
Curriculum Standards for Common Core and Australian Curriculum
A description of what Project Based Learning is
A Learning Intention – ‘I will show what I know about fractions
The Nine Steps
a) What do we know about fractions using manipulatives? Photo of examples provided. Fraction wall graphics included.
b) A rubric for assessment to track progress and give feedback throughout the unit.
c) Designing the farm for fraction work – determining the scale and size of animal or crop fields. Examples are provided to explore before students develop their own farms.
d) Discovering more about fractions through INB pages
e) Accumulating more knowledge – develop your own posters about knowledge – examples provided.
f) Comparing fractions- decimals – percentages
g) Presenting the work with guidelines
h) Reflecting on my work through a written response
Extra resources – Fraction Walls, Fractions posters that include – vocabulary, equivalent fractions and the four operations
I use these steps for Project Based Learning in my teaching and learning space.
Setting the stage for the learning that is about to happen and making a link back to a real life scenario
The teacher negotiates the criteria for evaluating the projects
Students become project designers
Students discuss the information needed for their designs
Students accumulate the materials necessary for the project
Students create their projects
Students prepare to present their projects
Students present their projects
Students reflect on the process and evaluate the projects based on the agreed criteria
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Measurement Informal Length Printables
This product is an engaging tool to work with Informal Measurement (Non Standard Length). Learning to measure with non standard tools is lots of fun. At the end of the pack are four assessment pages to track your students. This is a low prep pack with hands on tasks.
Your students will be out of their seats, engaged in measuring objects around your room and discussing the length of objects.
What will you get in this product?
Hands on tasks for informal measuring of length
Printable templates
Assessment ideas
The materials you will need are readily available in your classroom - paper clips, blocks, counters.
This pack includes -
How can we use items to measure objects? There is a black/white and color option to print as a poster to add other measurements to.
Measuring my Teddy Bear with a buddy
Measuring my Teddy Bear with a buddy
Which foot is longer?
Measuring my Teddy with blocks
Measuring my Teddy with paper clips
Sort order of height
Who is taller?
Choose an object to measure
Measuring objects with paper clips
Measuring objects with blocks
Choose objects to measure paper clips/blocks/bears
Measure distance with your feet
Pages for Assessment
Prep is quick and easy… Just print the pages, gather the materials listed, and you’re ready for a fun and engaging class!
This is what teachers, like you, have said about this product
This is a great resource that is well done and can be implemented into the classroom quickly and effectively. I would highly recommend it. Gen
This is exactly what I have been looking for. In the past I have always felt that my measurement unit has been a “hodge-podge” of activities. Now I am confident that my students will “measure up!” I appreciate your thoroughness! Thanks! Karen
A great resource to use to set up an investigation on measuring length to check for understanding. Marjorie
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Skip Counting Project Based Math - BBQ Costings
Skip Counting - Addition - Problem Solving are all covered in this BBQ activity. Skip counting provides an understanding of number patterns. The skip counting skill helps with the four operations and gives confidence to solve problems. Our BBQ Problem Based Learning task explores a menu and solving the price of food eaten.
Prompts for purchasing BBQ menu items
There are prompts to use for display.
They will motivate your students to draw, record their BBQ choices and then cost each order.
Skip Counting Mats
The skip counting mats are provided to review 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 7s and 10s from a zero and non zero starting point.
Start at 0 or start at any number.
Student Workbook
Select the pages you want to be printed in your students’ books.
Some students may not need all the pages. Use play money to help work out the skipping patterns.
Small whiteboards can be used to record the skipping pattern.
Interactive Note Book Pages
These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work.
Draw the BBQ order on the front and under the flap work out how much the order would cost.
The answer key is provided at the back of this pack.
Teach the students how to record dollars and cents.
Answer Keys
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Design an Ice Cream - Project Based Learning
Who doesn’t love ice cream? This Ice Cream Math pack is engaging, colorful and full of addition ideas. Use this Ice Cream Shop to create your own ice creams and work out the cost for each one.
It is your choice if you show your students how to record money.
My extension students do, but my other students do not.
Use bundling sticks or Base 10 blocks to work out the cost.
Check on a calculator – they love doing this.
Prompts for Ice Cream Shop
This is a sample of the prompts to use for display.
They will motivate your students to draw, record their ice cream and then cost each one.
Number Bonds
There are two types of mats in this pack. (plus two printing options).
You can choose what dice to use – 6-10-20 sided!
Set One – roll two dice and add both collections together.
Set Two – Roll two dice and place the largest collection in the large ice cream.
Now work out what you need to add to the smaller number rolled to make the larger number.
Copy and laminate them use whiteboard marker to write your equations.
Check with a buddy before rubbing out.
Student Workbook
This is a sample of the pages available. Select the pages you want in your students’ book.
Work through the Number Bonds first – Answer Key at the end of this pack.
Use the costing pages to work through the examples and then let the students design their own.
The work with the previous number bonds will help you to work out which ones to include in the booklet for each child.
Adding Ice Cream Scoops
This section has two tasks.
Set One – add to 10. You can use two or more scoops of ice cream.
Set Two – add between 11-26 with two or more scoops of ice cream.
Interactive Note Book Pages
These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work.
Draw the ice cream on the front and under the flap work out how much the ice cream would cost.
Answer key provided at the back of this pack.
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Time Lapbook - Assessment and Keeping Track of Learning
Time Lap Book - Learning to tell the time can be hard for some students. Use this colourful learning tool to engage and challenge students. This Time Lap Book is set up to record learning goals and show learning.
The pack includes -
Detailed photos to help you to put the Lap Book together with specific instructions.
Pages can be copied onto white paper or on coloured paper as I have done. I have provided a colour version as a third printing option.
Goals are clear and the Lap Book will show evidence for o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past. The goals beyond this are to extend your students.
Cards to help sequence days of the week, months of the year and seasons. These can be printed as is or on coloured card and laminated. You may wish to use them to glue into your everyday Math Book and then copy them into the Lap Book. They can be used as sorting cards too.
Additional goals are given but they are not part of this Lap Book, they are for extension tasks.
A tracking page to see where your students are and what their point of need for teaching is.
An Excel spreadsheet is in the zipped file for you to keep track of digitally too. Just add your student names, the file is formatted so that it will colour according to skill level.
A section that includes tasks to do with a focus group if they need work to consolidate the following tasks -
a) Make your own clock before you add one to the Lap Book
b) Work on days of the week, months of the year and sequencing the seasons.
Goal tags to glue into the lap book.
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The Doorbell Rang - A Division Problem
Wombat Stew is a much loved story about some adorable Australian animals. Follow Dingo as he tries to make a stew to eat while the other animals try to trick him.
This book study for ‘Wombat Stew’ contains the following printables
Getting to know the text
Alphabet Key
Parts of speech – classify the words and make a display
What I know, want to know and new learning
Alphabet Wall for a class display
Working through the text tasks include -
Beginning, middle, end
Text Connections
Problems and solutions
Write a summary
Story Elements
I see, I think, I wonder
A Dingo-Wombat-Emu-Echidna-Kookaburra-Lizard-Koala-Platypus is, can, has
Use adjectives to describe
Beyond the text tasks include -
Main Idea and sub plots
Conversations
Venn Diagrams compare animal characters in Wombat Stew
Change the ending
A recipe to use
Alternative coping methods
Personality Traits
Use adjectives
List Australian animals
Amazing illustration
Visual Illustrations
New Book Cover
Book Reports
Author Tools
Interview questions
Conversation between Wombat Stew characters
Innovation on the text
Sequel to text
Make your own book
Non-Fiction Responses for an Information Report include -
Photos to use as display and conversation prompts
Fact cards to share in colour and black/white
Planners (USA and Non-USA spelling)
Pages to use for writing text
Information Text rubric (USA and Non-USA spelling)
Map of the world
Interactive Note Pages for planning (USA and Non-USA spelling)
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Rosie's Walk Book Companion
Rosie’s Walk is a great book to teach positional words. This book companion looks at many aspects of the book and provides opportunities to respond to the text in differentiated tasks.
Vocabulary Cards – to sort and look at parts of speech
Word Wall – create a list of words together
Visual Representation
Draw a map and recount
Create your own version to read.
Print and Go Section
Word splashes for Rosie, the fox and the chase
Plus, Minus and Interesting facts
Alphabet Key
I see, I think, I wonder
Record three facts
3/2/1 – Facts, options, questions
Text to text, self and world
Design a book cover
Responding through the senses
Book Review
Writing about the Reading
Writing a letter- convince the fox to leave Rosie alone
Main Idea and sub points
Author tools – what does the author do to keep us reading and interested?
Interview questions – for the foxes and the farmers
Dialogue between characters
Write a different ending
Write an innovation on the text
Make a list of important facts from the text
List the complications and resolutions
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Teen Numbers with a Fairytale Theme
Teen Numbers Fairy Tale Theme - The teen numbers are the hardest to understand and they are an important part of knowing place value concepts.
These printables and learning centers will guide your students through these crazy teen numbers!
Tasks include –
Print and go!
Number Bonds – record what makes each teen number (Base ten or MAB printable provided)
Thinkboards to explore each teen number
Count and color for each number
Draw the correct number of objects in each shape
Missing Numbers
Choose the full color or black and white version to copy and laminate. The b/w copy can be printed on colored card for another option
Use whiteboard markers to write in the missing numbers – these can be erased easily
Great for learning centers
Select and draw
How many Golden Eggs did the goose lay? How many Magic beans did Jack have?
Copy the cards and select one at a time
On the recording sheet write the numeral and draw the collection
There is a color version that you can laminate and use whiteboard markers to record answers then rub off – great for centers (Copy x6)
How many tens and ones?
How many tens and ones do our teen numbers have?
Use these interactive notebook pages to show that the tens come first and then the ones – even though we hear six – seven – eight – nine first in 16, 17, 18 and 19!
Learning Centers
Use these cards for sequencing and matching
Each set has a black and white version that can be copied as is or on colored card partial color version, full color version
Sets include
Jack
Giant
Cow
Jack’s Mother
Harp
Golden Goose
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2D Shape Posters
This pack provides 2D Shape Posters on some of the most well known 2D shapes.
There are two versions each in color and black/white. The first version has the name of the shape, while the second version has some attribute facts about the sides and vertices/corners.
Shapes included are -
• Circle
• Heart
• Hexagon
• Octagon
• Oval
• Pentagon
• Oblong
• Rectangle
• Rhombus
• Square
• Star
• Trapezoid
• Triangle
Please read the description and download the preview before purchasing. The preview clearly shows you what is included in this pack.
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This product is for personal use in one classroom only. To share or use in multiple classrooms, please purchase additional licenses. This product may not be shared or distributed without consent from the author.