Lesson plans

Make STEM come alive and understandable with storytelling

Buy LMAC STEM lesson plan

Invite children to learn and apply STEM skills with the vole and girl from the LMAC picture book.

Did you know that baking requires math and science? Concepts such as fractions in recipes, telling time for baking, and how things taste all contribute to making a delicious cake.

Explore all these things with the LMAC STEM lesson plan for 3rd and 4th graders. This lesson plan is designed to complement your current curriculum and help students understand how to apply math and science to the real life situation of baking.

These activities are meant to be done after reading the “Let’s Make A Cake!” picture book to first create interest in:

  • Baking – fraction, time, and ratio
  • Sharing – fraction
  • Exploring – taste
The lesson plans address the following math core standards: Unit fractions CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.1, equivalent fractions CCSS.Math.Content.3.NF.A.3, adding and subtracting fractions CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.3.A and CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.3.C, word problems CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.4.C, multiplying fractions by a whole number CCSS.Math.Content.4.NF.B.4.
 
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Make SEL relatable to children with colorful characters

Storytelling enables readers to explore outer perspectives and bring them inside.

Social-emotional learning (SEL for short, also known as “social and emotional learning” or “social–emotional literacy”) is the the process in which everyone (children and adults!) acquire and apply knowledge and skills to:

  • Relate to emotions
  • Share empathy
  • Develop their identities
  • Create and maintain supportive relationships
  • Make responsible decisions
  • Reach goals  

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) shares a framework with 5 key components to cultivate skills and environments that help students learn and develop SEL skills. The 5 components are self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making.

writer's workshop: you are the cake, vole
Buy LMAC STEM lesson plan

Invite children to learn and apply these SEL skills with the vole, the girl, and the vole family after reading the LMAC picture book: 

  • Sharing through social awareness
  • Encouragement through relationship skills
  • Motivation through self-awareness
  • Trying new things / exploring through responsible decision making  
  • You are the cake! through self-management

This lesson plan is designed to complement your current curriculum and help students 6-9 year old children understand and apply SEL skills in their own lives.

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