Subjects
Grade
Brief Description
Students use AppleWorks or Office to write and illustrate a number story. Each studentâs work is then added to a Keynote or PowerPoint show and displayed for the class (or parents!) to see and share.
Objectives
Students use AppleWorks or Office to write and illustrate a number story. Each student's work is then added to a Keynote or PowerPoint show and displayed for the class (or parents!) to see and share.
Keywords
number story, writing across the content areas, math
Lesson Plan
Make writing across content areas fun with this computer activity for grades 1-3.
Start the lesson by showing students the number stories at Math Cats. Read the stories and discuss each picture. After discussing four or five stories, ask students to share what a number story is. Students should identify that each number story contains two sets of objects -- balloons, cookies... -- and that something happens to the items in those two sets -- they are added together or subtracted from each other.
Tell students that they are going to write their own number stories. Follow the steps to help them create their stories:
When all the students are finished with their stories, use them to create a PowerPoint or Keynote show:
You now can show the number stories to the entire class or to parents at Open House night or other event!
Assessment
Students will be evaluated on their:
Lesson Plan Source
Education World
Submitted By
Lorrie Jackson
National Standards
LANGUAGE ARTS: English
GRADES K - 12
NL-ENG.K-12.4 Communication Skills
MATHEMATICS: Number and Operations
GRADES Pre-K - 2
NM-NUM.PK-2.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships Among Numbers, and Number Systems
NM-NUM.PK-2.2 Understand Meanings of Operations and How They Relate to One Another
NM-NUM.PK-2.3 Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates
GRADES 3 - 5
NM-NUM.3-5.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships Among Numbers, and Number Systems
NM-NUM.3-5.2 Understand Meanings of Operations and How They Relate to One Another
NM-NUM.3-5.3 Compute Fluently and Make Reasonable Estimates