Lesson Repository

Resources

First Grade

Critical Area - Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.1

Cave Creatures

First Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 20.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.6

Compare Numbers 0-10

First Grade

Critical Area - Identify whether the number in one group is greater than, less than or equal to the number of objects in another group.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - K.CC.C.6,K.CC.C.7,1.NBT.B.3

Crooked Paths

First Grade

Critical Area - Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.MD.2

Decomposing Numbers

First Grade

Critical Area - Compose and decompose numbers from 11-19 into groups of ten ones and some further ones.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.NBT.2

Doubles Tower

First Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 20.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.C.6

Equal Means Equal

First Grade

Critical Area - Work with addition and subtraction equations, determine if equations involving addition and subtraction are true or false.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.7

Flies and Spiders

First Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 20.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.6

Hunting for Bugs

First Grade

Critical Area - Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction. Within 20 and 100.

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Standard - 1.OA.A,2.OA.A.1

Introducing Addition & Subtraction

First Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 20; creating equivalent but easier or known sums.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard -

Library Book Story Problems

First Grade

Critical Area - Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.1

MAKE 10 Game

First Grade

Critical Area - Make a 10.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard -

Making 10 Garden

First Grade

Critical Area - Representing and comparing whole numbers, initially with sets of objects.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - K.OA.4

Math Card Games

First Grade

Critical Area - Make a 10.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard -

Measurement

First Grade

Critical Area - Express the length of an object as a whole number of length units, by laying multiple copies of a shorter object end to end.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.MD.2

Missing Marshmallow Addend

First Grade

Critical Area - Understand Addition as Putting Together and Adding To within 20 using objects.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - K.OA.A.1,1.OA.C6

Peanut Butter and Jelly Fractions

First Grade

Critical Area - Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.G.3

Peas and Carrots

First Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 20.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.OA.6

Place Value compare

First Grade

Critical Area - Compare two, two digit numbers with the symbols >, < and =.

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Standard - 1.NBT.3

Slide and Add

First Grade

Critical Area - Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one digit number and adding a two digit number and a Multiple of 10, using concrete models.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.NBT.C.4

Subtraction Winding Game

First Grade

Critical Area - Solve addition and subtraction problems (written or oral), and add and subtract within 10 by using objects or drawings.

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - K.OA.2,1.OA.1,1.OA.3

Target Toss

First Grade

Critical Area - Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.NBT.2

Telling Time

First Grade

Critical Area - Tell and write time to hours and half hours using analog and digital clocks.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.MD.3

Ten frame card template

First Grade

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Standard -

The Bankers’ Game

First Grade

Critical Area - Understand that the two digits of a two-digit number represent amounts of tens and ones.

Grounding Metaphor - Bankers Game

Standard - 1.NBT.B.2

Winding Game

First Grade

Critical Area - Given a two-digit number, mentally find 10 more or 10 less than the number.

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - 1.NBT.C.5

Zurkles, Zaps, and Zekes

First Grade

Critical Area - Compose and decompose numbers from 11 to 19 into a group of ten ones and some further ones by using objects, then drawings and when appropriate.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - K.NBT.1

A Bed for the Queen

Second Grade

Critical Area - Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tape.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.MD.1

Bricks, Beams, and Slabs

Second Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings; record the strategy with a written numerical method.

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Standard - 2.NBT.7

Building Houses

Second Grade

Critical Area - Mentally add/subtract 10-100 to a given number 100-900.

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Standard - 2.NBT.8

Clock Fractions

Second Grade

Critical Area - Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.MD.C.7

Compare Floor Plans

Second Grade

Critical Area - Using greater than, less than and equal to symbols, compare two 3 digit numbers.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard -

Crooked Path

Second Grade

Critical Area - Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard -

Crooked Path For New Building

Second Grade

Critical Area - Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.MD

Crooked Paths

Second Grade

Critical Area - Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 1.MD.2

Cut the Shapes

Second Grade

Critical Area - Partition circle and rectangles into 2, 3, or 4 equal shares. Describe the shares using fraction words.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2G3

Decagon Addition

Second Grade

Critical Area - Fluently add and subtract within 100.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.NBT.5

Dodo addition placemat version

Second Grade

Critical Area - Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.NBT.5,2.NBT.6,2.NBT.7

Flower Comparisons

Second Grade

Critical Area - Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.MD.6

Go fish 5 step lesson

Second Grade

Critical Area - Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies. By the end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.OA.2

How Far Rulers

Second Grade

Critical Area - Relate addition and subtraction to length, fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.

Grounding Metaphor - Making a ruler

Standard - 2.MD.6,2.OA.2

Length

Second Grade

Critical Area - Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.MD.A.4

Lunch at McDonald’s

Second Grade

Critical Area - Solve word problems by adding and subtracting, within 100, dollars with dollars and cents with cents using the $ and c symbols appropriately.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.OA.1,2.MD.8c

Making Rectangles

Second Grade

Critical Area - Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares, use addition to find the total number of objects arranged.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.G.2,2.OA.4

Ornament Jumble

Second Grade

Critical Area - 2 Digit Subtraction.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard -

Plus 9 or 10 Bingo

Second Grade

Critical Area - use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. mentally add 10-100 to a given number.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.NBT.8

Revised Crooked

Second Grade

Critical Area - Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.

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Standard -

Spend a Dollar

Second Grade

Critical Area - Solve word problems involving money, using dollar and cent symbols appropriately.

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Standard -

Telling Time Winding Game

Second Grade

Critical Area - Tell and write time from analog and digital clocks to the nearest five minutes, using a.m. and p.m.

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - 2.MD.7

The Candy Factory

Second Grade

Critical Area - Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.OA.1

Which Flavor Milk for Lunch

Second Grade

Critical Area - Represent and interpret data using a graph.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.MD.D

Winding Game

Second Grade

Critical Area - Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900 and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number.

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - 2.NBT.8

Yum Yum Packaging

Second Grade

Critical Area - Read and write numbers to 1000 using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 2.NBT.A.3

Card games

Third Grade

Critical Area -

Grounding Metaphor -

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Dog Yard – Area and Perimeter

Third Grade

Critical Area - Understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.MD.C

Elapsed Time Winding Game

Third Grade

Critical Area - Tell and write time to the nearest minute.

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - 3.MD.1

Fraction Circles Banker's Game

Third Grade

Critical Area - Make equivalent fractions.

Grounding Metaphor - Bankers Game

Standard -

Fraction Rulers Trader’s Game

Third Grade

Critical Area - Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.

Grounding Metaphor - Bankers Game

Standard - 3.NF.1,3.NF.2,3.NF.3

Frogs and Ducks

Third Grade

Critical Area - Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division or properties of operations.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.OA.7,3.OA.1,3.OA.72,3.OA.73,3.OA.4

Hundred or Bust

Third Grade

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Introductory Division Lesson

Third Grade

Critical Area - Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.OA.2

Owls AP lesson

Third Grade

Critical Area - Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.OA.7,3.MD.7

Pond Critter Hangouts

Third Grade

Critical Area - Explain equivalence of fractions in special cases, and compare fractions by reasoning about their size.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.NF.2,3.NF.3

Produce Stand

Third Grade

Critical Area - Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.NF.1,3.NF.3

Produce Stand (circle version)

Third Grade

Critical Area - Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NF.1,4.NF.2

Produce Stand Rummy

Third Grade

Critical Area - Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.NF.1

Spider Leg Game

Third Grade

Critical Area - Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.OA.A.2

Team Ruler

Third Grade

Critical Area - Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 3.OA.2

The Winding Game(Division)

Fourth Grade,Third Grade

Critical Area -

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - 3.OA.A.1,3.OA.A.2,3.OA.A.4,4.OA.A.2

Bug Division

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Find the whole # quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one-digit divisors.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.6

Fill the Baskets

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NF.1,4.NF.2

Fraction Rocket Race Game

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.N.F.A.1,4.N.F.A.2

Fractions

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Compare two fractions with different numerators and different denominators.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NF.2

Marshmallow Madness

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Multiply a whole number of up to two digits by a one-digit whole number.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4. NBT.B.5

Place Value Triangle Dice Game

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Read and write base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.A.2

Place Value Triangle Target Toss

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Read and write base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two-multi-digit whole numbers based on the meaning of the digits in each place, using < , >, = and symbols.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.A.2

Planting Seeds of Division

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four digit dividends and one-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value, the properties of operations, and/or the relationship between multiplication and division.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.6

Spider Leg Game

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Find whole number quotients and remainders, with up to 4-digit dividends and one digit divisors.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.B.6

Stacking Game Division

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Find whole-number quotients and remainders with up to four-digit dividends and one digit divisors.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.6

The Winding Game(Division)

Fourth Grade

Critical Area -

Grounding Metaphor - Winding Game

Standard - 3.OA.A.1,3.OA.A.2,3.OA.A.4,4.OA.A.2

Triangle Take Away

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.NBT.B.4

Tripline Fractions

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.N.F.A.2

Which is Larger

Fourth Grade

Critical Area - Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.

Grounding Metaphor -

Standard - 4.MD.3,3.MD.5

Lesson Repository

Resources

Kindergarten

First Grade

Second Grade

Third Grade

Fourth Grade

Fifth Grade

Eighth Grade