Synopses & Reviews
Literature-Based Activities Integrating Mathematics with Other Content Areas: Grades 3-5
By Robin A. Ward
In a three-volume series by grade level, author Robin Ward provides easy-to-implement, literature-based activities that integrate standards-based content from science, social studies, and the arts with standards-based elementary math content. Beginning with the rationale for and research to support interdisciplinary teaching, each book outlines a wealth of lessons that provide you with detailed instructions for implementing the activities and your students with the benefits of integrated instruction.
This second book in the series offers literature summaries, NCTM and other national standards, assessment notes, and related websites and books, making it a perfect classroom companion for teaching in the third, fourth, and fifth grades!
“The math-visual arts connections are exciting! As I was reading [Robin’s] suggestions for activities, I wanted to collect a group of eight- to ten-year-old students and begin working and learning with them. You have incorporated excitement for students who need to have concrete examples of math as well as attracting kinesthetic learners through hands-on activities. Well done!”
–Kris O’Clair, math and science intervention coordinator, Denver Public Schools
Robin Ward is a ten-year mathematics educator who has presented locally and nationally on improving mathematics pedagogy. She developed web-based materials for NASA, teaches integrated math-art classes to students in grades Pre-K-8, and offers professional development workshops for mathematics teachers. Robin is the Associate Director for Curriculum Integration at the Rice University School Mathematics Project and is the author of Numeracy and Literacy: Teaching K-8 Mathematics Using Children's Literature.
Synopsis
This book provides easy-to-implement, literature-based activities that connect standards-based grades 3-5 mathematics lessons with concepts derived from science, social studies, and the arts standards.
- Presents a matrix of activities listing the literature used for each activity and the Mathematics concepts covered as well as concepts covered for the other content areas.
- Includes overviews of the children’s literature accompany each activity.
- Integrates National Content Standards (NCTM, NSES, NCSS, NAEA) within each activity that support standards-based instruction.
- Guides teachers to implement each activity and assess students’ learning successfully with s tep-by-step descriptions .
- Features re producible worksheets for activities that require recording or written response, saving teachers time when incorporating an activity into lessons.
- Contains assessment tools and rubrics in the Appendix.
Synopsis
This book provides easy-to-implement, literature-based activities that connect standards-based grades 3-5 mathematics lessons with concepts derived from science, social studies, and the arts standards.
- Presents a matrix of activities listing the literature used for each activity and the Mathematics concepts covered as well as concepts covered for the other content areas.
- Includes overviews of the children's literature accompany each activity.
- Integrates National Content Standards (NCTM, NSES, NCSS, NAEA) within each activity that support standards-based instruction.
- Guides teachers to implement each activity and assess students' learning successfully with step-by-step descriptions .
- Features reproducible worksheets for activities that require recording or written response, saving teachers time when incorporating an activity into lessons.
- Contains assessment tools and rubrics in the Appendix.
About the Author
Robin Ward is a ten-year mathematics educator who has presented locally and nationally on improving mathematics pedagogy. She developed web-based materials for NASA, teaches integrated math-art classes to students in grades Pre-K-8, and offers professional development workshops for mathematics teachers. Robin is the Associate Director for Curriculum Integration at the Rice University School Mathematics Project and is the author of Numeracy and Literacy: Teaching K-8 Mathematics Using Children's Literature.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Helpful Hints
Regarding Assessment
Chapter One: Literature-Based Mathematics and Science Activities
The Mathematics-Science Connection
Matrix of Mathematics and Science Activities
Activities featuring Number and Operations
Zebra Question (a poem in A Light in the Attic) and My Light
The Planet Mars (a poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends) and The Planets in Our Solar System
Activities featuring Algebra
Wild Fibonacci: Nature’s Secret Code Revealed
Activities featuring Geometry
Strange Wind (a poem in A Light in the Attic) and Let’s Fly a Kite
Activities featuring Measurement
Me and My Giant (a poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends) and Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant
The Tongue Sticker-Outer (a poem in Falling Up) and If You Hopped Like a Frog
Activities featuring Data Analysis and Probability
A Closet Full of Shoes (a poem in Falling Up) and Zoo-ology
Good Enough to Eat: A Kid’s Guide to Food and Nutrition
Ï The Moon Seems to Change
Activities featuring Connections
My First Book of Biographies
Chapter Two: Literature-Based Mathematics and Social Studies Activities
The Mathematics-Social Studies Connection
Matrix of Mathematics and Social Studies Activities
Activities featuring Number and Operations
Sam and the Lucky Money
The Great Divide and Is Somewhere Always Far Away?: Poems about Places
Activities featuring Algebra
One Grain of Rice
Activities featuring Geometry
Safe? (a poem in Falling Up) and Maps & Globes
Mummy Math and Mummies, Pyramids, and Pharaohs
Activities featuring Measurement
How Do You Know What Time It Is? andAlice Yazzie’s Year
Activities featuring Data Analysis and Probability
Duck for President
If the World Were a Village
The Train of States
Activities featuring Connections
Invention (a poem in Where the Sidewalk Ends), Perfect Inventions = Perfect World, and Girls Think of Everything
Chapter Three: Literature-Based Mathematics and Visual Arts Activities
The Mathematics-Visual Arts Connection
Matrix of Mathematics and Visual Arts Activities
Activities featuring Number and Operations
A Million Dots, Georges Seurat (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists Series) and The Dot
Ed Emberley’s Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book and Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors
Activities featuring Algebra
Tessellations: The History and Making of Symmetrical Designs and A Cloak for the Dreamer
Activities featuring Geometry
Zoo in the Sky: A Book of Animal Constellations
I Spy Shapes in Art and Picasso (Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists Series)
Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams
Snowflake Bentley
Activities featuring Measurement
Follow the Line and Mondrian (Great Modern Masters Series)
Madlenka and Zoom
Activities featuring Data Analysis and Probability
Probably Pistachio, Miro: Earth and Sky (Art for Children Series, and Joan Miro (Famous Artists Series)
Assessment Resources References
Children’s Literature References
Instructional Resources References
Research References
Appendix — Assessment Tools and Rubrics