Description
In this free math lesson for grades K-2, students test water absorption to model runoff in urban areas, then imagine being a landscape architect and design a rain garden to mitigate flooding. Access the full lesson plan, slideshow, student documents, and teacher answer key below.
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★ WHAT’S INCLUDED ★
- Teacher Slideshow
- Student Documents
- Experiment Guide
- Reading: So Where Does Rainwater Go?
- Rain Gardens Up Close
- Shape Cut Outs, Math, and Writing
- Vocabulary Cards
★ PRIMARY STANDARDS ★
- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
- Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
- D4.7.K-2 Identify ways to take action to help address local, regional, and global problems.
- Common Core Math Standards (CCSS.MATH)
- Geometry (K-8)
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.5 Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.2 Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.G.A.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
- National Core Arts Standards
- Visual Arts: Standard 2 - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
- VA:Cr2.1.Ka Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.
- VA:Cr2.1.1a Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
- VA:Cr2.1.2a Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
★ SECONDARY STANDARDS ★
- Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
- PS1: Matter and its Interactions
- 2-PS1-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
★ MEET THE TEACHER ★
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K - 2nd
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CCSSK.G.B.5
CCSS1.G.A.2
CCSS2.G.A.1
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Description
In this free math lesson for grades K-2, students test water absorption to model runoff in urban areas, then imagine being a landscape architect and design a rain garden to mitigate flooding. Access the full lesson plan, slideshow, student documents, and teacher answer key below.
★ ACCESS FREE LESSON PLAN HERE ★
★ WHAT’S INCLUDED ★
- Teacher Slideshow
- Student Documents
- Experiment Guide
- Reading: So Where Does Rainwater Go?
- Rain Gardens Up Close
- Shape Cut Outs, Math, and Writing
- Vocabulary Cards
★ PRIMARY STANDARDS ★
- College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Standards
- Dimension 4: Taking Informed Action
- D4.7.K-2 Identify ways to take action to help address local, regional, and global problems.
- Common Core Math Standards (CCSS.MATH)
- Geometry (K-8)
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.5 Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.2 Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.G.A.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
- National Core Arts Standards
- Visual Arts: Standard 2 - Organize and develop artistic ideas and work.
- VA:Cr2.1.Ka Through experimentation, build skills in various media and approaches to art-making.
- VA:Cr2.1.1a Explore uses of materials and tools to create works of art or design.
- VA:Cr2.1.2a Experiment with various materials and tools to explore personal interests in a work of art or design.
★ SECONDARY STANDARDS ★
- Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)
- PS1: Matter and its Interactions
- 2-PS1-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
★ MEET THE TEACHER ★
To access this resource or learn more about the teacher that created it, click here!
★ More Free Stuff! ★
Report this resource to TPT
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CCSSK.G.B.5
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
CCSS1.G.A.2
Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, half-circles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape.
CCSS2.G.A.1
Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
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