Lesson Summary

In the story, the animals keep falling out of the sled. Can you use the engineering design process to create a sled that will keep 10 friends inside all the way down the hill?

STE or Math Standards

Massachusetts Mathematics, Counting and Cardinality

Preschool
A. Know number names and the counting sequence: 1. Listen to and say the names of numbers in meaningful contexts.

B. Count to tell the number of objects: 3. Understand the relationships between numerals and quantities up to 10.

C. Compare numbers: 5. Use comparative language, such as more/less than, equal to, to compare and describe collections of objects.

Kindergarten
A. Know number names and the count sequence: 3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0–20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

B. Count to tell the number of objects: 4. Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
   a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.
   b. Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

C. Compare numbers: 6. Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group for groups with up to 10 objects, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

ELA Standards

Massachusetts English Language Arts, Reading Standards for Literature

Preschool

• Key Ideas and Details 1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about a story or poem read aloud.
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. With prompting and support, describe important details from an illustration or photograph.

Kindergarten

• Key Ideas and Details 1. With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• Integration of Knowledge and Ideas 7. With prompting and support, describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear (e.g., what person, place, thing, or idea in the text an illustration depicts).

Video

Ten on a Sled by Kim Norman