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

Algebra II

Crickets—Nature's Thermometer

Students determine and use functions to examine the relationship between the number of chirps of three different types of crickets and the temperature. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 2A.1.B, 2A.4.C

Exponential Functions

Students compare graphs of different members of the family of exponential functions. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 2A.4.A, B; 2A.11.B, C

Quadratic Functions

Students use quadratic functions to describe the relationship of the height of a football thrown in a parabolic path to its distance from the goal line. TEKS addressed in this lesson: 2A.1.A, B; 2A.6.A, B, C; 2A.8.A, B, C, D