Shapes

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Shapes

• By Jessica Knight

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TEKS

• First Grade
• (1.6)  Geometry and reasoning. The student uses
  attributes to identify two- and three-dimensional
  geometric figures. The student compares and
  contrasts two- and three-dimensional geometric
  figures or both.
• The student is expected to
• (A)  describe and identify two-dimensional
  geometric figures, including circles, triangles,
  rectangles, and squares (a special type of
  rectangle)
• (B)  describe and identify three-dimensional
  geometric figures, including spheres, rectangular
  prisms (including cubes), cylinders, and cones
• (C)  describe and identify two- and
  three-dimensional geometric figures in order to
  sort them according to a given attribute using
  informal and formal language and
• (D)  use concrete models to combine
  two-dimensional geometric figures to make new
  geometric figures.

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Students will learn

• What makes a square different from a rectangle
• What makes a shape three dimensional
• How to combine two dimensional to make geometric
  figures
• Specific characteristics that are used to label
  shapes
• A basic collection of shapes

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Students will learn this through

• Group discussion
• Art projects
• Matching worksheets
• Naming worksheets
• Hands on comparisons

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Art Projects

• The students will learn shapes through various
  art activities that will ask them to identify
  that shapes in order to complete the picture.

Example The students are to make a picture with
cut out shapes. The instructions say that the
student can only put squares at the bottom of the
paper, rectangles in the middles, and circles at
the top.
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Student Group Discussions

• The student will learn by discussing the
  differences and similarities with their peers in
  either a small group or as a class. The students
  will hear other students explain how they
  remember or learn the shapes and will learn
  through this communication.

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Hands On Examples

• Students will learn the basic three dimenstional
  shapes by example. Teacher will hold up everyday
  objects and explain what kind of shape the object
  is and what makes it that shape.

Example The teacher holds up a can as an example
of a cylinder. Then explains that a cylinder has
a circle on each end and the middle is a rolled
up rectangle. Then the teacher proceeds to make a
cyclinder out of paper.
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Worksheets

• After learning a basic knowledge through several
  different ways, the students can be give an
  worksheet in order to test their skills. The
  worksheet will require the student to connect the
  figures that are the same shape.

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Credits and the End

• Texas TEKS Chapter 111. Subchapter A

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