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Making Bird Feeders!

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What do you know about feeding birds?

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What do you notice about these bird feeders?

What do you wonder?

Have you ever made a bird feeder before?

How do you think these bird feeders were made?

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Sample Videos: Instructions for making bird feeders

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Our class is going to make bird feeders!

What questions do we have?

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Our class is going to make bird feeders!

What questions do we have?

What questions can be answered with math?

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Egg Carton Bird Feeder Task:

Do we have enough egg cartons for everyone in the class to make a bird feeder?

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How many egg cartons does each table need for everyone to make a bird feeder?

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Optional Warm-up: Draw the bird feeder that you would like to make

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We know…

We can decide…

Do we have enough egg cartons for everyone in the class to make a bird feeder?

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Let’s make a plan to figure out how many egg cartons we need to make bugs for our class!….

IDEA

Ways math can help us answer the question:

number sentences, words, pictures

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Sharing our Plans

How are these plans the same? How are these plans different?

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Sharing and Comparing our Plans

Group

What are possible sizes of birders?

How many of each size?

How many egg cartons?

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Talking about Your Plan

  • What decisions did your group make?
  • How do you know you have enough egg cartons for everyone in the class?
  • Will everyone use the same amount of materials? How do you know?
  • Will we have any materials leftover?

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What if all 2nd grade classes at a school want to make bird feeders?

How will our models change?

How will our solutions change?