In a Making Task, students consider materials needed to make some quantity of an item for their school or community.
The resources in this section will help you implement Making tasks in your school or classroom. Each example will provide planning slides, student handouts, viewing guides for video and annotated student work. Please register to receive the content password.
Primary-Grade Tasks
Making Headbands
Making Bird Feeders
Making Picture Frames
(Gr K) (Gr 1)
Making Lanterns
Making Bugs
Planning Resources
Making Tasks for Grades K-5
Planning Slides
Editable Copy for Making Taking Planning Slides
(Google Slides)
Making Task Prompt Page
Making Headbands (Grade K)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher engages students in making assumptions and then supports students as they consider how their assumptions connect to their models and solutions.
Video
Making Bird Feeders (Grade 1)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher is supporting students’ thinking and ideas, maintaining high rigor with high support, and distributing mathematics authority from the teacher to the students.
Video
Making Picture Frame (Grade K)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students to express their thinking, reasoning, and decisions related to the modeling context.
Video
Making Picture Frame (Grade 1)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students to express their thinking, reasoning, and decisions related to the modeling context.
Video
Making Lantern (Grade 2)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students eliciting student thinking about the modeling context, and supporting students to share the results of their models with their classmates.
Video
Making Bugs (Grade 2)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students to express their thinking, reasoning, and decisions related to the modeling context.
Video
Making Punch (Grade 3)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students to express their thinking, reasoning, and decisions related to the modeling context.
Video
Making Ghosts (Grade 4)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students to express their thinking, reasoning, and decisions related to the modeling context.
Video
Making Paper Flowers (Grade 4)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to pay attention to the way the teacher balances offering students choices and providing constraints and to the ways students are making decisions and sharing their ideas.
Video
Making Jumpropes (Grade 4)
Viewing Guide
As you watch, use this viewing guide to notice how the teacher supports students in making and justifying their modeling decisions, and in understanding how assumptions relate to model results.
