Common Core Essential Elements:  EE.6.NS.5–8

Learning Intention...
  • Students will understand that positive and negative numbers are used together to describe quantities having opposite directions or values (e.g., temperature above/below zero).

I will be successful when I can...
  • independently solve the above learning intention 4 out of 5 opportunities with 80% accuracy.

Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM)

This information is provided by DLM to further explain how to understand the standard:
  • Concept: Both positive and negative numbers represent a distance from zero on the number line

  • Skills:  Identify positive and negative numbers on a number line; identify real- world examples for the use of positive and negative numbers (e.g.,, owing money, working with a budget, elevations below sea level, the basement floor of a building, diving under water); explain that zero is the value between positive and negative numbers; show the direction of movement on a number line when working with positive and negative numbers.

  • Big Idea:  Positive numbers are greater than zero. Negative numbers are less than zero and have a negative sign (−) in front of them. A negative number is the opposite of a positive number of the same size.

  • Essential Questions:
    • Where can I find this number on a number line?
    • Does this number have a positive or negative value? What are some examples I can use to show negative and positive numbers?
    • If I start with a positive number and then add a negative number, what direction on the number line will I move?
    • How far is this number from zero?
Resource:
www.dropbox.com/sh/3t44xd9dqyh3c5b/AACs9Mjd-tnV8FTNPmK4M5Zqa/DLM%20Essential%20Elements%20Math%20Unpacking%2009-07-15%206th%20Grade.pdf?dl=0

Lesson Resources

Illustrative Mathematics is a website that contains math questions that relate to the above standard above. Check out the two questions to pose to students that meet the above standard about temperature and elevation. They also have great lessons about number lines with positive and negative numbers.
https://www.illustrativemathematics.org/6.NS.C
Here is a website, Betterlesson, that has worksheets that help students work with a partner (social skills) or individually to  learn more about positive and negative numbers.
betterlesson.com/lesson/544685/integers-number-lines-and-absolute-values
Here are more resources from Betterlesson that have lessons about integers, positive and negative numbers, and worksheets to demonstrate understanding.
betterlesson.com/common_core/browse/331/ccss-math-content-6-ns-c-5-understand-that-positive-and-negative-numbers-are-used-together-to-describe-quantities-having-opposit

Howard County Public School System has a free resource they published essential questions, learning targets, and applying rigor to this content standard along in three stages. Scroll down to find links that will open Word documents to pose math questions to students. What a great additional resource to differentiate student learning based on their abilities of this content to promote higher level thinking.
hcpss.instructure.com/courses/125/pages/6-dot-ns-dot-c-5-and-6-dot-ns-dot-c-6ac-about-the-math#fragment-2