[Lesson Plan] Counting Strategies Activity: Build a Fruit Basket

As more and more schools expand their curriculum offerings to include Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs spanning the 16 Career Clusters, the need for resources to help these students has grown along with it. One of these clusters, obviously close to our hearts at VariQuest, is the Education & Training pathway - so along with supporting educators who facilitate this goal with students, we also want to support those students considering a career in the industry!

So - do you have an Early Education Program with your secondary students? Or maybe you're a Pre-K or Kindergarten teacher looking for activities to help students learn about numbers and counting? We've got a free lesson plan for you, aligned with Common Core Math Standard K.CC.A.1-5: "Counting Strategies: Build a Fruit Basket!"

This activity involves students following directions, naming numbers, identifying types of fruit, counting forward, and writing numbers. During this activity, students will count out the exact numbers of fruit pieces that are indicated on the task cards to build their fruit baskets. After placing the indicated fruit in the basket, students will write, using dry-erase markers, the total number of fruit pieces in the basket. You can decide to have students draw random cards or assign specific levels to them depending upon their needed level of practice.

Download this free lesson plan for your secondary students to teach in their Early Education learning programs, use it in your own classroom!