SHAPES
by Linda Sermons, Lomax-Pinevale Elementary School
Valdosta, Georgia

Developed using the TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING CONTINUUM MODEL

List the objectives that support chosen learning standard goals and call for learners to gain information.

List the instructional strategies that might be used to accomplish the objectives.

List technology resources that might be used to accomplish the objectives.

Create & describe learning activities that incorporate identified instructional strategies and available technology resources in a way that allows the learner to accomplish objectives.

Think about creative forms of assessment, list some possibilities, match assessments with objectives.

Georgia QCC Learning Standards

Objectives

Subject: 

Grade 1

Strand/Course:

Math Strand 3 and 4

Topic: 

Shapes

Number: 

NA

Standard:

Strand 3: Identifies circles, squares, triangles, ovals, diamonds, and rectangle in various orientations/positions.

Strand 4: Identifies spheres, cubes, and cones.

-Discuss that mathematicians has special names for shapes.
-Shapes are important in everyday life.
-Discuss that all shapes are not the same, they are different in size and structure.
-Discuss that some shapes have sides and some don't.

Presentation

Demonstration

Discovery

 

Computers

Internet

Objects

 

Microsoft PowerPoint will be used to present knowledge about shapes. There will be shapes on display for students to touch and examine in the classroom and vmrl sites to explore.

Students will discuss, their finding, view shapes in a PowerPoint presentation with hyperlinks to vrml sites that display shapes

Students will make a shape book  with  pictures of all the geometric shapes and their names.

Students use name the shapes on the vrml site. 

Students are able to match the shapes on the vrml site with the object in their hand.

Initiating Activity 
Students will go on a Treasure Hunt in the classroom to find objects in the shape of circle, sphere, cone, square, cube and cylinders.

Circle
- Show students a circle
- A circle has no points, corners, or sides.

Square
- Show the students a square
- Tell the students that a square have corners.
- Mathematicians use another word for corners. 
- They call the corners angles
- Square

Sphere
- Show the students a ball
- Things that are shaped like this are called a sphere
- We can touch and hold a sphere
- We can roll it
- Sphere

Cone
- Show an ice cream cone or traffic cone
- Things that are shaped like this are called cones
- People sometime wear hats that look like cones
- A cone has a point
- Conic

Cubes 
- Show the students a linking cube
- Things that are shaped like this are called cubes
- All the sides of a cube are the same size
- A cube have six sides
- Cube1
  Cube2
  Cube3


Cylinders
- Show the students a can of food
- Things that are shaped like this can are called cylinder
- What shape is on the end of a cylinder

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