These are the lesson plans for Unit 13 of 16 in the 5th Grade Math Curriculum: 127 lessons in teaching order, week by week, each with a lesson plan and an exit ticket.
Also for this unit: exit tickets, pre-check, unit review and test. See the whole year
Everything each lesson plan points to, with links. Sheet numbers count worksheets: a color pack prints each sheet again in black and white.
Six lesson plans, one for each lesson of a 5th grade unit on the area and perimeter of polygons, in teaching order, after an overview page that lays the unit out day by day: a pre-check, the six lessons, a review and the unit test. Each plan fits on one page. It gives the goal, what to get ready, the words to use, the lesson in five steps with the words to say, questions to ask, common mistakes and what to do about them, and the Animal Math worksheets, maker, tool and quizzes for the lesson.
Print the unit, or just the day's page, and teach from it. Each lesson takes about 45 minutes: a 5 minute warm up, 10 minutes of teaching, 10 minutes together, 15 minutes of practice and an exit ticket at the end. Keep grid paper, rulers, scissors and string out all unit: students see why the formulas work by cutting shapes apart and moving the pieces. Every lesson in this unit comes from state standards: rectangles with fraction and decimal sides (Florida), shapes made of rectangles (South Carolina), the area of right triangles (Indiana, Virginia), parallelograms, triangles and trapezoids (Indiana) and estimating perimeters (Oklahoma); teach the ones your class learns. The exit tickets, pre-check, review and unit test are separate packs, made for these lessons, and the plans use other shapes and numbers than they do.
Teaching at home? Use the warm up and the "Try it together" step as a short lesson, and the "Words to use" as the way to talk about it. A ruler, grid paper, scissors and a piece of string are all you need: cut paper shapes apart and fit them back together, and wrap string around round lids. The mistakes to watch for are the ones most children make.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Lesson plans for every lesson of a unit on the area and perimeter of polygons, from rectangles with fraction and decimal sides to triangles, parallelograms, trapezoids and estimated perimeters. Each one-page plan gives a lesson in five steps, common mistakes and the worksheets to use, after a unit overview.
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