

Car wheels and bike wheels, gears, and Ferris wheels all rotate. Rotations are all around us in the real world. Rotations - All Turned Around (.pdf, 4.7mb) Throughout the lesson, students will be working both in groups and individually to convey their understanding. Based on the data, students will create pie graphs to determine the class favorite.

Throughout the class, students will collect data on the class’s favorite pizza toppings. In this lesson plan, students will be using pizza slices to investigate fractions with different denominators. By comparing bugs and humans, students will create a model of a solution to a human problem by mimicking the anatomy of bugs. Throughout the lesson, students will investigate the physical features of bugs. In this lesson, students will become entomologists by using the great outdoors to go on a bug hunt.

Students will see many images that are examples of real-life reflections. This lesson incorporates real world connections during the introductory activity. Reflections are all around in the real world.
