What is a Clarifying Lesson?

A model lesson teachers can implement in their classroom. Clarifying Lessons combine multiple TEKS statements and may use several Clarifying Activities in one lesson. Clarifying Lessons help to answer the question "What does a complete lesson look like that addresses a set of related TEKS statements, and how can these TEKS statements be connected to other parts of the TEKS?"

Clarifying Lessons

Grade 1

Geo-Wrap Vests

Students use geometric shapes to create and extend patterns. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 1.4A; 1.6A, B, C; 1.12A, B.

Math Bargains

Students use real coins or concrete models of coins to solve problems involving the purchase of items. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 1.1C; 1.3A; 1.11A, B, C, D; 1.12A, B; 1.13.

Measuring Real Stuff

Students select and use appropriate nonstandard units to measure and compare lengths and weights of real-life objects. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 1.7A, B; 1.11A, B, C, D; 1.12A, B; 1.13.

More Land or Water?

Students collect a random sample by tossing an inflatable globe and recording whether they touch land or water each time they catch the globe in order to predict whether more of the surface of the earth is covered by land or by water. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 1.1B; 1.7A; 1.9A, B; 1.10A; 1.13A.

To Be (Half) or Not To Be (Half)?

Students demonstrate various ways to represent and verify a whole or set separated into two, three, or four equal parts. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 1.2A, B; 1.11B, C, D; 1.13.