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 5

Alphabet Frequency

Students explore the frequency with which the letters of the alphabet are used in the English language. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 5.2A, B, C; 5.4A, B; 5.12A, B; 5.13C; 5.14A, B, C, D; 5.15A, B; 5.16A, B.

Belongs, Doesn't Belong

Students discover the rule used to sort a set of data into two sets, those data that belong according to the rule and those data that don't belong. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 5.5B; 5.14C; 5.16A, B.

Double Dipping

Students find and display all possible pairs of flavors of ice cream and look for patterns in the results. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 5.3B; 5.5A, B; 5.14A, B, C, D; 5.15A; 5.16A, B.

Multiple Towers

Students use interlocking cubes to build towers to represent factors of numbers and place the towers in the appropriate places on a Tower chart in order to look for patterns. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 5.3B, C, D; 5.5B, C; 5.14C, D; 5.15A, B; 5.16A, B.

Springy Legs

Students measure their body height and the height they can jump, use these measurements to describe their Springy Legs Factors (SLF), and compare their SLFs to other people's SLFs to make decisions and solve problems. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 5.2B, C; 5.3C; 5.4A, B; 5.11; 5.13B, C; 5.14A, B, C, D; 5.15A, B.

Testing for Tessellations

Students cover the plane with polygons (and other shapes) to create tesselations. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 5.7A, B; 5.8A, B; 5.14A, D; 5.15A, B; 5.16A, B.