First Grade Geometry Lessons: Building New Shapes
Building strong spatial reasoning skills begins by teaching students how to see relationships between shapes. By learning to compose composite shapes, students move beyond simple identification and start to understand the properties that allow different figures to fit... read more
Teaching Tool Selection in First Grade Computer Science
This lesson does not try to teach complex programming or hardware architecture. It does not expect a student to explain the inner workings of a processor or why a particular OS is installed on a device. Instead, Using Your Computer focuses on a much more practical,... read more
First Grade Computer Science Lesson for Teaching Algorithms
Teaching first graders how to think like programmers often feels like teaching them how to organize their own messy thoughts.When you start a Making a Toy Robot lesson in your first grade computer science block, you are really asking students to move beyond just... read more
Helping First Graders Compare Models and Pictures of Places
This first grade social studies lesson does not ask students to become cartographers or spend hours building elaborate dioramas. Instead, it gets straight to the point of helping them recognize how different visual aids represent our surroundings. The Models and... read more