Lesson Plan
It’s Raining Numbers!
Raindrops are falling in this weather-themed math lesson! Students will manipulate raindrops and discover that raindrops can be counted in the same order, even when they are arranged in different ways.
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Learning Objectives
- Students will be able to construct a piece of raindrop artwork in which they correctly count and label the number of raindrops and order the numbers correctly.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Tell your students that they are going to be counting raindrops today.
- Have them sit in a circle.
- Drop the large model raindrops so that they fall in the middle.
- Tell your students that the challenge is to count the raindrops in different ways.
Beginning
- Practice counting in students home language (L1) as well as in English.
Intermediate
- Review counting using games or songs.