This package includes three lesson plans focusing on comparing integers. Each lesson plan uses animation as the springboard into an activity. While I include the Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE), all lessons are written to be used with matching state and national standards that include real-world applications.

The first lesson is for practicing greater than and less than with regards to integers. It is designed as a kinesthetic, movement-based activity. The second lesson is a digital learning experience designed for distance learning, and students create a digital artifact. The third lesson advances comparing integers to adding. It is designed as a transfer lesson moving students from comparing them to making small, mental math calculations.

This video is freely available on YouTube at: https://youtu.be/GvrTDrCSS90

Each lesson plan includes:

Short summary

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE)

Learning targets

Time stamps for pause points associated with lesson goals and learning targets

Questions to ask students and expected answers

Accommodations for the activities

Each package includes:

PowerPoints included have slide information listed at the end of the lesson plan

PowerPoint files are intentionally simple, as many teachers like to customize them or use templates

Solutions, steps, and explanations for the problems shown in the video

Script for the video

All documents editable in Microsoft Office formats and as PDF to maintain formatting

Mathematics Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE) Targeted:

MGSE6.NS.5 Understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero, elevation above/below sea level, debits/credits, positive/negative electric charge); use positive and negative numbers to represent quantities in real-world contexts, explaining the meaning of 0 in each situation.

MGSE6.NS.6 Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates.

MGSE7.NS.1 Apply and extend previous understandings of addition and subtraction to add and subtract rational numbers; represent addition and subtraction on a horizontal or vertical number line diagram.