Real-World Activity
| Caterpillar
Catastrophe |
| Mrs.
Brown
is
planting a butterfly garden. She is planting 2 flowers of
different heights, and she wants to put them in order from shortest to
tallest. She also has 2 different sized caterpillars in
cages. Uh oh! The caterpillars have escaped! Help
Mrs. Brown plant her flowers and put the caterpillars back in the right
cages before the day is over. |
| Lesson
1
Activity: 1. Using playdough, create 2 flowers; one flower should be longer than the other. Put the flowers in order from shortest to tallest. 2. If you need more practice ordering things by height click here. 3. To watch another video on things that are different heights, click here. 3. Use playdough to make 2 caterpillars. One caterpillar should be longer than the other. Put them in the cages that they fit in from longest to shortest. 4. If you need more help ordering things by lenght click here. |
| Lesson 2
Activity: 1. Using a glue stick, past the flowers in order from shortest to tallest. 2. Go back to page 4 if you need some more practice ordering things by height. 3. Color the flowers. 4. Past the caterpillars in the cages that they fit in from longest to shortest. 5. Go back to page 3 if you need more practice ordering things by length. 6. Color the caterpillars. |
GPS Standard: MKL1-Students will group objects according to common properties such as longer/shorter, more/less, taller/shorter, and heavier/lighter.
a. compare and order objects on the basis of length.
c. compare and order objects on the basis of height.
PLO: The students will put objects in order, by pointing to and physically placing objects, in ascending and descending order for height and length.
