Series: Focus on the Lesson
Videos that allow teachers to think through math lesson strategies.
Series: Focus on the Lesson
Which Holds More?
June 12, 2015
This video from our Focus on the Lesson series demonstrates an activity for teaching capacity in kindergarten and preschool. Students look at two containers and try to determine which one would hold more liquid.
- Topic: Measurement, Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Gesture, Capacity
Series: Focus on the Lesson June 11, 2015
People Sort
Children sort and re-sort each other, based on various attributes. This activity involves an open sort in which the categories can include a wide range of attributes that must be identified and described by the…
- Topic: Sets
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Play, Books, Emily Jenkins, Five Creatures
Series: Focus on the Lesson December 17, 2014
Shoe Graph
In this video, students brainstorm ways to sort their shoes. Later, they graphically organize the data from the sets they created.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Graphing, Shoes, Seasonal, Books, Whose Shoes?, Stephen R. Swinburne
Series: Focus on the Lesson June 20, 2014
Walk with Rosie
In this video, students explore spatial relationships by describing and traversing an obstacle course, then making a map of it.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags English Language Learner, Mapping, Play, Books, Pat Hutchins, Rosie's Walk
Series: Focus on the Lesson April 24, 2013
Triangle Talk from Feel for Shapes
Students distinguish shapes using touch rather than sight.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Focus on the Lesson March 2, 2013
Who Is Napping?
Teachers encourage children to describe the pattern in a favorite story book.
- Topic: Pattern
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Books, Audrey Wood, The Napping House
Series: Focus on the Lesson February 16, 2013
Just Right for Me
In this video, students compare the size of their hands to objects around the classroom to find ones that are "just right."
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Big and Small, Estimation, Comparing, Correction
Series: Focus on the Lesson January 15, 2013
Feel for Shapes
In this geometry activity for pre-k and kindergarten, students distinguish shapes using touch rather than sight.
- Topic: Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Play, Books
Series: Focus on the Lesson October 11, 2012
Analyzing Shoe Graph Pictographs
After graphing their shoes based on specific characteristics, a class discusses the results and draws some conclusions.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
Series: Focus on the Lesson October 11, 2012
Making Shoe Pictographs
A class draws pictures of their shoes and organizes them on a graph based on various characteristics.
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
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