Math In Nature: Enrichment Curriculum

Product Description

Looking for engaging, hands-on lessons to help your kids see and explore math in the world around us? Try getting outside and playing with math in nature!

With this curriculum, kids will explore 5 different math in nature topics:

• Math in outer space
• Fibonacci sequence
• Hexagons
• Fractals
• Concentric Circles

Within each of these topics, kids also practice and apply important math skills, seeing them in a meaningful context. Some of these math concepts include:

• Seeing & using decimals on a number line
• Working with integers on a number line
• Understanding number patterns & sequences
• Composing shapes & repeating shapes
• Exploring repeated multiplication as an introduction to exponents
• Measuring circles & using/applying circle vocabulary

The curriculum consists of these components for each theme:

• Math in nature posters to use as an opening ‘Notice & Wonder’ prompt, plus a Notice & Wonder journal where they can record their ideas and questions each day.
• 3-4 hands on activities and math lessons to complete along with each theme
• Printable picture book lists so you can include literature in your study
• Links to fun math art projects to go along with each theme (as time allows)
• Printable ‘Fun Facts’ pages to send home with kids, summarizing the big ideas from each theme so they can review and remember what they learned.

Includes 4 pdf files: Teacher Manual with directions, explanations, pictures, answer keys and extension ideas; Student Handout Pages; Math in Nature Posters; and Notice & Wonder Student Journal