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Compare & Contrast / Fractions #1 | 1st & 2nd Reading & Math
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Introducing compare and contrast & name shapes into halves, thirds, and fourths.
Mrs. Forth will introduce compare and contrast to students. Mrs. Wright will have students fold paper to partition and name shapes into halves, thirds, and fourths. / Kristen Forth, Rockwood School District / Hannah Wright, City of St. Charles School District, Monroe Elementary / Book: Explore North America & Book: Explore Africa, Author: Bobbie Kalman, Publisher: Crabtree Publishing
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Compare & Contrast / Fractions #1 | 1st & 2nd Reading & Math
Special | 29m 27sVideo has Closed Captions
Mrs. Forth will introduce compare and contrast to students. Mrs. Wright will have students fold paper to partition and name shapes into halves, thirds, and fourths. / Kristen Forth, Rockwood School District / Hannah Wright, City of St. Charles School District, Monroe Elementary / Book: Explore North America & Book: Explore Africa, Author: Bobbie Kalman, Publisher: Crabtree Publishing
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Welcome back to "Teaching In Room 9," the area's largest classroom.
I'm Mrs.
Forth from the Rockwood School District, excited to spend another week with you, and this week, we're going to be exploring the world, all around the world.
I actually picked out two books for us to explore the world together with.
You want to see them?
Okay, the first book is "Explore North America."
Hm, do you know what North America is?
It is a continent.
That's right.
It's the very continent that we live on.
We live in North America.
The United States is in North America, and even though we live in the United States, it's still pretty cool to find out all about the continent that we live on, and the other book is "Explore Africa."
Yes, Africa is another continent.
It is really far away.
You're right.
I've actually never been to Africa, but I would love to.
There's so many amazing animals on that continent.
Fascinating, some of my favorite animals too.
So, I thought, well, if we're going to be exploring the world, and really looking at two different continents, then we can really talk about compare and contrast.
Compare and contrast.
Do you know what those words mean?
You've heard them before?
Yeah, so to compare is to tell what is alike, what's the same.
So we can compare me and you.
Let's do that.
What's the same?
Hm, yeah.
We're both people.
We both like to read.
Yeah, we both have noses, yeah.
We both smile.
Those are all great ideas.
Now, hm, are there some things that are different about us?
Absolutely.
To tell what's different is to contrast.
So we already compared us.
Let's contrast.
What's different?
Oh, my hair is different than your hair.
I am older.
You're right.
I'm an adult, and you're a kid.
That's different, right?
Hm.
That's also true.
Oh, I have a watch on and you don't.
Yeah, those are all things that are different about us.
So, remember, compare is to tell what's the same, and contrast is to tell what's different, and as always, I have a chart for us to take a look at and really think about, what words do we use when we're comparing and contrasting?
And then I thought maybe we could read not the whole book, but parts of the books, and compare and contrast these two continents.
I think we could probably do this all week.
There's a lot of information in these books, so we can spend some time reading parts of the books and then practice comparing and contrasting.
What does it mean, again, to compare?
To tell what's the same, and contrast to tell what's different.
All right, let's take a look at the chart that I have for you.
That really helps us think about what words we use when we compare and contrast.
So, when we compare, we might use words like "both."
Like, we both have noses.
Or, yeah, I like to read too, or you like to read too.
We are similar because we smile.
We are alike because we're people, yeah.
We're the same because... Yeah, there's lots of those ideas.
Yeah, yeah, I like to write too.
That's the same about us.
So, did you notice when we were telling about things that are similar or the same about us, we used a lot of these words?
These are words that we use when we are comparing.
All right, let's look at contrast.
Contrast.
Oh, look, here's another blue one.
He flew away, didn't he?
Also, yeah, we also have fingers.
Yeah, contrast.
Yeah, unlike you, I'm not a kid.
That's right.
However, hm... Let me think.
However... You are a kid, however, I am an adult, right?
What do you think?
Yeah, oh, 'cause you have short hair and I have long hair.
Let's practice that.
Even though that might not be the same for all of us, let's just practice using that language together.
So I have long hair, but you have short hair.
We are different because I live in Eureka, and you live in Fenton.
You live in Maryland Heights.
You live in Arnold.
Look at all that.
We are different because of where we live, and...
I like to... Hmm, I do.
You know what, you're right.
We did talk about this before.
I don't eat ice cream, do I?
Because I'm lactose intolerant.
We talked about that when we were talking about allergies.
So, I don't eat ice cream while you do.
Oh, you're lactose intolerant too.
So that's something that's the same, so we could use one of these words.
I'm lactose intolerant also, or too.
Great work, readers.
Okay, so let's take a look at the books, and there's a part I'm thinking about at the front of a nonfiction book that helps us decide what part we want to read, and I was wondering if maybe we can take a look at this and help us decide what parts to read in the book.
Do you know what I'm thinking of?
That's right.
A table of contents, table of contents.
Okay, so there's going to be a table of contents in both of these books, and both of these books are written by Bobbie Kalman.
You know, I really love her non-fiction books.
So, thanks to Bobbie Kalman for these books, and Crab Tree Publishing.
They help publish these books.
So let's take a look at the table of contents.
I'm going to go ahead and read what we can find in the table of contents, and then we'll take a look at the other one and see, is there something that is kind of about the same thing that we can read in both books, and decide what part so we can compare and contrast.
So, "Water and Land."
Oh, you think I should open the other book at the same time?
See if they match?
Geniuses, oh my goodness.
Guess what?
Guess what the very first section is?
"Water and Land," and then the next one's like, "Tell Me About Africa," and this one's like, "Welcome to North America."
It is the same.
It's set up the same, similar.
Yeah, we could compare those two.
So you think we should just read about the continent?
All right, so let's read about Africa, and let's read about North America, and then we're going to use the language from the chart to help us compare and contrast just about the two continents.
That's right.
All right, here we go.
All right, so, "Tell Me About Africa."
Page six.
I'm going to go to page six.
Ooh, look at all of those texts features.
Awesome.
Okay, "Tell me about Africa!"
You guys are fascinated with the picture.
Okay, so this is actually a map of Africa.
I'm going to zoom in so you can take a look at it, and remember, the beauty of non-fiction is you don't have to read everything in order, and you can make a choice, and so we're going to choose to take a look at the map and then we'll go back up and read the text.
So, look at this.
This is Africa, and you can see it has all of these countries inside of it.
That's a lot.
Yeah, Nigeria, South Africa, Madagascar.
You've heard that from a movie before?
Okay, I'm going to go ahead and read the captions.
It says up here, "The largest country in Africa is Sudan."
So this is the largest country that they have on the continent.
"The smallest country in Africa is Seychelles."
Look at that.
It's this tiny little dot.
Even when I zoom in, it's still just teeny-teeny tiny.
Holy moly.
Tiny.
Okay, "Fast fact.
There are islands in Africa.
An island is land that is surrounded by water.
Madagascar is the largest island in Africa."
And here's Madagascar again right here.
So, remember, an island is surrounded by water.
All right, let's go to this page.
"Tell me about Africa!
Africa is the second largest continent on Earth.
There are 54 countries in Africa.
A country has borders and a government.
A border is a place where one country ends and another country begins.
A government is a group of people who rule a country.
Many animals live in Africa.
These cheetahs live in Africa.
Oh, I love cheetahs, too!
So I think that's it.
Those are the only two pages that matched the heading that you guys picked out from the table of contents.
So, now, let's take a look at North America.
Here we go, "Welcome to North America."
Page six again.
Here we go.
Oh, you want to do the same thing and take a look at the map?
Okay, zoom.
This is North America.
Yes, here's the United States.
This is where we are, right about here.
Yep, right there is where Missouri is.
Oh, you're already noticing something?
Yeah, tell us about it.
That's right.
If you look here, there's lots of little islands.
So you're already comparing Africa and North America.
You could say that they both have islands.
"Fast fact, the governments in some of the countries in North America are in the continent of Europe."
Well, that's different.
So, Europe is another continent, and some of the governments of these countries are in Europe, not North America.
"Island countries.
Some countries are islands.
An island is land that is surrounded by water."
We've heard this before.
"Islands are smaller than continents are.
Some countries are made up of one island.
Other countries are made up of many islands.
The Bahamas, for example, is made up of 700 islands."
Whoa, this is The Bahamas, and you can see all those dots.
There's 700 of those that make up the whole country of The Bahamas.
Wow.
"Welcome to North America!
This book is about the continent of North America.
There are 24 countries in North America.
Each country has a boundary called a border.
One country ends and another country begins at a border.
A country also has a government.
A government is a group of people who rule a country."
That is very similar.
Yeah, it's almost the same.
You noticed that.
You're already comparing or thinking about comparing and contrasting.
You could say, even in these books, they're similar, aren't they?
How Bobbie Kalman chose to write them.
So let's take a look at comparing first.
Both, too, similar, alike, also, the same.
So, thinking about Africa and North America, what is the same?
What is the same?
They both have islands.
Yeah, and you used the word both.
They both have islands.
Africa is a continent.
And North America is too.
I love how you're really thinking about using the language to compare.
Okay, what's different?
What is different about these two continents?
What was different that you read?
They did both have countries.
Yep.
That's right.
So, that's comparing.
Remember, to compare is to tell it's the same.
So, North America also has a lot of countries.
How many countries?
Do you remember?
You want me to read it again?
There are 54 countries in Africa.
There are 24 countries in North America.
North America.
Has a lot of countries, but Africa has more.
That's right.
What else is different?
Hmm.
Yes, that's true.
Ooh, The Bahamas and how they have 700 islands.
So, even though they both have islands, the country of The Bahamas has even more, so both countries have islands.
However, North America has more because of The Bahamas.
That's right.
Great comparing and contrasting.
As you're out and about today, either in your house, out of your house, on a walk, you can practice comparing and contrasting too.
You just need to think about two things, and you can talk about, how are they the same, and how are they different?
You can even do it with another person like you and I did.
Happy comparing and contrasting, and I can't wait to see you tomorrow as we explore North America and Africa even more.
Bye, readers!
- Hi!
Thank you, Mrs.
Forth.
We love going around the world with you.
Man, guys, I am so, so, so excited for this week, because as you know, we're from good old STL in Missouri, right?
But this week, we are going to travel around the world.
Yes, around the world.
I have my bag packed.
I hope you're ready to go, because I'm ready to go.
I have some very important things in here.
Let me show you.
The first thing, I never go anywhere without this.
Oh, my neck pillow.
You know, it's good for the car.
It's good for trains.
It's good for planes.
Sometimes, my bun is kind of messing it up though.
So I have my neck pillow so that I can snooze a little and keep my energy up, right?
Okay, now, I need another thing, and I need you to make sure you have one too.
Okay, this, da-da-da-da!
Passport, okay?
If you don't have a passport, run and grab a piece of paper, fold it up, and make yourself a little passport, because we are going all around the world this week, and you need your passport in order to do that, okay?
Also, you gotta pack your bags, right?
Pack your bags with all your learning materials, okay?
But not only is this bag filled with my passport and my neck pillow, which I better take this off, 'cause it's kind of hurting me, 'cause I can't take a nap right now.
It also is here to tell us our first destination.
Are you ready to hear it?
Okay, as I am ready to announce our first destination, I need you to give me a drum roll, ready?
(Mrs. Wright banging) Drum roll!
Let me see it!
The Statue of Liberty!
Whoa, we are going.
Do you guys know where the Statue of Liberty is located?
Yes, New York City!
Woo, we are going to see Lady Liberty herself, and I have a little bit of information for you on the Statue of Liberty.
Now, while I read this information, I want you to move your body in the way that you need to right now.
Do you need to do stretching?
Do you need to jog in place?
Do you need to do jumping jacks?
So, think about what your body needs you to do.
Do you need to do deep breathing, maybe?
Think about what your body needs while I get going and you're going to start.
Okay?
Okay, Statue of Liberty.
Here's some facts about it.
This information came from "Kids' World."
So, the Statue of Liberty is 92 meters or 305 feet high, and it's made of an iron structure with copper skin.
Lady Liberty, as the statue is often referred to, like I just did, was designed by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, I think I read that right, and the massive iron skeleton of the lady was designed by Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, who has also designed the Eiffel Tower.
Interesting.
The statue was built and completed in France in 1884.
The monument was then disassembled, that means taken apart, into 350 pieces and packed into 214 crates and shipped to New York.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift of the people of France to the American people on the American Centennial in 1886.
The torch's flame is covered with 24-carat gold and the crown has seven rays for the seven continents.
How cool!
The monument stands on Liberty island in the Hudson River, facing New York City.
You can climb up the 154 steps from the pedestal to the head of the Statue of Liberty, where you can see the fantastic views over the Big Apple, as New York is often lovingly called.
That is some awesome information.
Okay, now, you know, I have these little figures, and I got to thinking, there are a lot of shapes in this world, a whole lot of shapes, and shapes are pretty interesting, because I don't know if you remember, but we were building a rocket ship to space a couple of weeks ago, and I noticed something when we were using those shapes.
Okay, so I'm going to show you what I noticed.
We're going to work on these "I Can" statements today.
I can partition shapes and do halves, thirds, and fourths, and I can describe the shares using unit fractions.
Okay, let me show you what I remember from last week, or when we went to outer space.
Okay, we had these shapes.
You remember?
Okay, and this is a hexagon, and we were building, and we decided we didn't want to use the same amount on the rocket.
We were going to change it up.
So then, instead of using a hexagon, we decided to use a trapezoid, but we couldn't just use one trapezoid.
We had to use two trapezoids.
Hm, how, why... Why couldn't we use just one trapezoid?
You're right, because one trapezoid only makes up half of a hexagon, and so we needed to use two trapezoids to make up the whole hexagon.
So, in this case, these two parts make one whole.
Hm, pretty cool, right?
Okay, let me show you something else.
Now, we didn't do this last time with the rocket, but we could have.
Again, hexagon.
All right, but now I have these.
Do you remember what these were?
Yeah, a rhombus.
I'm going to put the rhombus on here, and hopefully you can kind of see it.
Move this down a little, and...
It doesn't cover the whole thing.
So, how many more rhombus, rhombi, do you think we need to cover this hexagon, to make the whole hexagon?
Let's try.
Let's see if two parts covers the whole hexagon.
Nope.
It didn't cover it, hm.
Oh, so I need three parts to cover this whole hexagon.
Oh.
So, in this case, three parts made one whole.
Hmm, interesting, and here... Two parts made a whole.
This one is kind of more difficult to see.
So, two parts made a whole.
Three parts made a whole.
Let's try a different shape.
Let's try this guy.
Remember him?
He's a good old trapezoid.
If I have this triangle...
Does that make a whole?
No.
Okay, let's try another one.
Now I'm using two triangles to cover the trapezoid.
Does that make a whole in this case?
No.
All right, let's try it.
Yeah, three parts make a whole.
Three parts, huh.
Okay, let's try it again.
Back to the hexagon.
This is obviously going to work.
I'm going to fill this up.
Now, look, I have one part, two parts.
Hmm, three parts, four parts.
Four parts make a whole in this case.
I think so.
Wait.
Are these equal parts?
No, you're right.
Hm, let's take those off and let's see.
Well, yeah, look.
Four parts, right?
Four parts.
Here we go.
Wait, it's not covered all the way.
Man, okay, here.
There.
I think you're right.
I think, when we're dealing with shares and parts and fractions, the shares and the parts have to be equal, and if I use these shapes... Yeah, you're right.
There were four parts, but they're not equal shares.
Hm, so I think with fractions, the parts have to be equal shares, like this right here.
This share, that's one share.
That's two shares.
Three shares covers this whole trapezoid.
Nothing's hanging over.
It's even.
It's equal, right?
So, three out of three parts makes a whole in this case, and all of our parts are equal.
Okay, that was a quick intro to fractions.
I want you to come back here tomorrow, because we're going to keep exploring, what are fractions?
All right, see you then.
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