Unit Overview
Essential Questions:
Lesson Plan B3: Sorting Objects
Lesson Seed B3: Sorting Blocks
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Content Emphasis By Clusters in Grade PK
Progressions from Common Core State Standards in Mathematics
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Lesson seeds are ideas that can be used to build a lesson aligned to the CCSS. Lesson seeds are not meant to be all-inclusive, nor are they substitutes for instruction. When developing lessons from these seeds, teachers must consider the needs of all learners. It is also important to build checkpoints into the lessons where appropriate formative assessment will inform a teachers instructional pacing and delivery..
In this unit, students sort objects into either self-selected categories or given categories. They compare the categories either visually or by aligning the objects one-to-one. By doing this, they determine which has more or less, or if they are equal. At this level, students are not expected to give a ‘numeric’ comparison of the categories.
Enduring Understandings:
Focus Standards (Listed as Examples of Opportunities for In-Depth Focus in the PARCC Content Framework documents for Grades 3-8):
Possible Student Outcomes:
The student will:
Evidence of Student Learning:
Fluency Expectations and Examples of Culminating Standards:
Common Misconceptions:
Interdisciplinary Connections: Interdisciplinary connections fall into a number of related categories:
Sample Assessment Items: The items included in this component will be aligned to the standards in the unit and will include:
Part II – Instructional Connections outside the Focus Cluster
subitize: the ability to recognize the total number of objects or shapes in a set without counting. Example: Recognizing that this face of a cube has five dots without counting them. verbal counting: : counting while aligning each number said to an object, picture, etc. in order to solve a problem. cardinality understanding: is the understanding that when counting a set, the last number represents the total number of objects in the set. Example: This is a set of 3 stars.
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