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 4

Am I Related to Myself?

Students use ratios to discover some nearly constant relationships between measurements of parts of the human body. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 4.2B; 4.7; 4.12; 4.14A, D; 4.15A; 4.16A, B.

Hooked on Problem Solving

Students use each of the digits 1–9 exactly once to form addition problems consisting of two three-digit addends and a three-digit sum and look for patterns in the solutions. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 4.3A; 4.5A; 4.15A; 4.16A, B.

Tantalizing Tangrams

Students explore polygons by manipulating tangram pieces. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 4.8A, B, C; 4.9A, B, C; 4.15A; 4.16A.

Rolling Races

Students play a game to determine the likelihoods of different outcomes when rolling two number cubes. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 4.13; 4.15A, B; 4.16A, B.