Lisa teaches a combined Grade 1/2 class. Her students have been working on measurement. Lisa wanted to do an activity with them that would not only be meeting curriculum expectations, but also be interesting to them. Chocolate came to mind (who doesn't like chocolate!) and a great lesson was born from there.
For her minds-on the students had to decide what pencil to get rid of. She scribed their thinking as they discussed what their answer would be. Notice how she has the success criteria (in very friendly Grade 1 language) at the bottom of the page. A great way to keep it handy and make it be able to refer to it quickly and easily.
For the action is where the chocolate came in. She gave them this problem:
The students were shown two different chocolate bars. Lisa had made a ruler using linking cubes (which she alternated into two different colours to make the counting easier) and then the students used the ruler to help them measure the two bars. Because there were only two chocolates, Lisa had taken a picture of the chocolate bars with the rulers underneath them. She then created their worksheet with this picture and the question on it. This allowed the students to write write on the photo to help them with their strategies.
To consolidate, Lisa chose a few students to come up and share their work. She then had the class give oral feedback as to what they did that was really good, and what they could do better. The students were really positive with each other, and listened to feedback that was given and used similar feedback with the next person.
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