Mathematics — Kindergarten

Candy Math

Unit on reviewing Math skills. The unit will take 20 minutes per day for 6 days. A good activity for late spring.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)

By Tammy Sharpe.

Kindergarten Walk

This is an introductory lesson in a series of lessons on our community and community helpers. Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins will be used as the pattern to plan our own walk around our school playground. Students will then create a simple map of our school playground.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Information Skills, Social Studies, and Mathematics)

By Michelle Hensley.

Life cycle of painted lady butterflies

Students will make a chart of the life cycle of the painted lady butterflies that the class observes over a period of several days.

Format: lesson plan (grade K English Language Arts, Mathematics, Computer Technology Skills, and Science)

By Anne Allen.

More, less, and equal

Students will identify sets and numbers that are more, less, or equal to each other while participating in a variety of games and activities.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)

By Rachel Fiscus.

Stamp It Here, Stamp It There. Stamp It Where?

Using a drawing program (Kid Pix), students will integrate English Language Arts and Technology Skills as they work with Geometry skills.

Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics and Computer Technology Skills)

By Mary Rizzo.

Lesson plans on the web

Adjective Monster

Students explore the connections between visual art and language arts, and how both are used to creatively tell stories and express emotions. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts, Visual Arts Education, and Mathematics)

Provider: ARTSEDGE: The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Facing Up

Students create a map of their face and practice locating different parts using the geometric and measurement concepts they have learned in previous lessons. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Science)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Figuring in football

Students examine the influences of pattern, symmetry, and design in the real-world, by looking at a football field. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Geoboards

Students identify and recognize triangles using multiple representations, locate triangles in their environment, and construct triangles. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Going Beyond with Triangles

Students create a class triangle book and work with tangrams. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Going on a shape hunt: Integrating math and literacy

Students learn shape names, locate shapes in their environment, practice spelling out the names of items and shapes they locate, and reflect, in writing, on the process. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 English Language Arts and Mathematics)

Provider: IRA/NCTE

Going Places: Looking Back and Moving Forward

This lesson helps the teacher determine if students have learned to link measurement and geometry to create maps and charts to show spatial relationships. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Science)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Handy Map

The teacher draws an outline of his or her hands and begins mapping them using words the students suggest. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Social Studies and Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Helping Ladybug Hide with Arrows and Angles

Students use a Java applet to hide a ladybug under a leaf. This requires experimentation, planning, and understanding of spatial relationships and visual memory. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics and Science)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

How Do You Build Triangles?

Students investigate basic properties of triangles. They then investigate the relationships among basic geometric shapes and communicate their findings to their peers. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

I've Seen That Shape Before

In a variety of activities, students use physical models of simple solid shapes, and identify these shapes in the real-world and in pictures found on websites. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Investigating the concept of triangle and properties of polygons

Describes activities using interactive geoboards to help students identify simple geometric shapes, describe their properties, and develop spatial sense. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Keeping in Balance

Students participate in activities in which they focus on patterns and relations that can be developed from the exploration of balance, mass, length of the mass arm, and the position of the fulcrum. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Ladybug mazes

In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students plan a series of moves that navigate a ladybug through a maze. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Making Rectangles

Students use their knowledge of numbers, measurement and geometry to plan the steps necessary for a ladybug to draw rectangles of different sizes. (Learn more)

Format: lesson plan (grade K–2 Mathematics)

Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics