ALEX Lesson Plans

Subject: Mathematics (6)
Title: How Low Can You Go?
Description: In this lesson, students will identify and locate numberspostive and negative numbers, including decimals and fractions on a number line. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.

Subject: Mathematics (6 - 7)
Title: Positively F.U.N. ! (fantastic, unique, and noteworthy) ways to idenitfy and add positive and negative integers)
Description: This lesson will actively engage students to identify and add positive and negative integers. In cooperative groups, students will discuss everyday vocabulary that will activate students' existing background knowledge and set the purpose for understanding integers. Students will integrate new information with prior knowledge. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.

Subject: Mathematics (5 - 7)
Title: Integers Are Rising and Falling Everywhere! Adding and Subtracting Integers
Description: Students will expand from the idea of not only identifying signed numbers but to use them for numerical operations.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.

Subject: English Language Arts (7), or English Language Arts (7), or Mathematics (6), or Technology Education (6 - 8)
Title: The Path to Positive
Description: Using the story Less than Zero by Stuart Murphy, students relate money matters to positive and negative numbers as a real-life correlation. Incorporated into this lesson, students play the path to positive game where they are required to add integers.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science, GEMS Project funded by the Malone Family Foundation.

Subject: Mathematics (6)
Title: "Integers, Less Than Zero"
Description: A hands-on lesson demonstrating integers using the book, LESS THAN ZERO by Stuart J. Murphy

Thinkfinity Lesson Plans

Subject: Cross-Disciplinary - Informal Education , Physical Education - Outdoor Education , Science - Biological and Life Sciences , Science - Zoology , Informal Education - Academic Enrichment , Informal Education - Zoo/Aquarium/Nature Center Education
Title: What Is Infinity? Add Bookmark
Description: What is the last digit of pi? How far away is the end of the universe? Explore these questions and more in today's Wonder of the Day!
Thinkfinity Partner: Wonderopolis
Grade Span: K,PreK,1,2,3,4,5