Introduction to Geometry By Stephanie Douglass For grades K2nd

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Introduction to GeometryBy Stephanie
DouglassFor grades K-2nd
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OBJECTIVE

• For the students to recognize that there are
  geometric shapes everywhere, and that some shapes
  can be made up of other shapes.

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Introduce the Learning Activity

• I would first ask them What do you see around
  you? and let the students answer. Then I would
  let them know that they need to look harder into
  it, and that they are not just seeing a door, but
  that it is a rectangle. Now I will tell them
  This is known as geometry.

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Introduce the Learning Activity CONTINUED

• In order to get the kids motivated I will tell
  them that throughout the lesson they are going to
  be playing games on the computer to help them
  understand what geometry is, but first we have to
  learn our shapes, and that they can all be in
  different sizes.

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Provide Information

• When giving the student the definition of
  geometry I will show them some shapes (some
  different some the same), but different sizes.
  Then I would ask them again what they see around
  them. This is to see what they know and what they
  dont know.

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Provide Information continued

• I would also bring in some shapes (that say what
  they are on them so that the students know what
  is what) that are cut out so that the kids can
  make other shapes and designs out of them just so
  the kids can get used to working with shapes, and
  realizing that shapes can be made out of other
  shapes.

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Provide Practice

• The students will get into groups. There will be
  two kinds of stations. One group of stations will
  have questions like what is the shape of this
  object. Then I will also ask them to come up with
  the shape of two other objects around them
  (letting them pick the object).

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Provide Practicecontinued

• The other stations except one will have cut out
  shapes with the name of the shape on it, and I
  will ask the students how can you make a certain
  shape with using different shapes?

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Provide Practicecontinued

• The last station will go along with making
  shapes, but it is going to be at the computer
  with a game on the monitor. It will be at this
  link http//www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/robopack
  er_grade4.html

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Provide Practicecontinued

• When the students go back to there seats, at each
  desk there will be more objects that they will
  need to figure out what shapes they are, but this
  time they are going to work alone. While they are
  working I would take one student at a time back
  to the computer to see if they can do the game
  alone.

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• After I have gone through every student I would
  show them another game online at
  http//www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/games/geomatho.
  This is to give them an example of the other
  things in geometry that we will learn later on in
  the year.

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Provide Knowledge of Results

• Once the students are back to their seats I will
  let them know that they did a great job.
• With written feedback, I will let the student
  know how they are doing. If I notice that a
  student is struggling with the objective then I
  will write to them to see me if they want any
  extra help and give them more examples.

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Review the Activity

• I will show one object that each group made, and
  show that the shapes really can be made out of
  other shapes. I will also go around the room and
  show them other shapes that are in the room. At
  the end of the review I will ask if anyone has
  any question about shapes

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Method of Assessment

• In the end I will have the students find the five
  different shapes in the class room, and if there
  are doubles I will have to students find
  something else the room that is the same shape.