Kindergarten Lesson plan
Ten Pipes in a Bundle: Counting by Tens with the Quilby Water Crew
A 30-minute kindergarten lesson in which students count bundles of ten pipe pieces by tens to 100 as a town water crew loads its repair truck.
Common Core Math · Kindergarten
K.CC.B.4 Connect counting to cardinality
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. Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
Why water teaches this standard well
Students touch and count a set of blue water-drop counters or fish cutouts one at a time, learning that the last number they say names the whole group no matter how the drops are arranged. This one-to-one pairing is the foundation for every later tally of rain gauge readings or bottles collected.
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6 materials aligned to K.CC.B.4
Lesson plans
Worksheets
Kindergarten Worksheet
Counting the Storm Drains on Tinsley Row: A Kindergarten Worksheet
A kindergarten counting worksheet built on a street map of storm drains, with items counted in a row, in an array, and scattered, plus two group comparisons.
Kindergarten Worksheet
Fire Hydrants on Birch Street: A Kindergarten Counting Worksheet
A kindergarten worksheet where students count fire hydrants along a street, solve addition and subtraction stories about two streets, and count out a given number.
Classroom activities
Kindergarten Classroom activity
The Applewick Pipe Crew: A Kindergarten Cup Passing Chain Game
A kindergarten activity where students stand in a line as a water pipe, pass cups from the well tub to the tap tub, and find out what one gap in the line does.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
Harebell Park Water-Saver Banner: A Sponge-Print Drop Row
A 30-minute kindergarten printmaking activity where each child stamps one blue sponge drop onto a class banner and the room counts the whole row together.
Kindergarten Classroom activity
Mallard Pond Clean-Up: A Kindergarten Sorting Relay Game
A kindergarten relay game where two teams race to collect only the litter scattered near a fictional pond, then count and compare their totals.