Katie Edney!

Elementary Math: Shape & Space: Geometry!

Grade 1/2!
Time: 60 minutes!

Description!
To begin, students will share the attributes that they wrote in their charts while exploring 3D objects in the prior lesson. What students share will be written on chart paper to create a Attributes of 3D objects list just as we had done with 2D shapes. Then, to finish out the lesson, students will be doing hands-on work with constructing and replicating 2D shapes and 3D objects
using playdoh and toothpicks. This will be a great visual for students to indicate vertices and to
visualize 3D objects. !

New Brunswick Curriculum Outcomes!

Grade One: Mathematics: Shape & Space:!
GCO: Describe 3-D objects and 2-D shapes, and analyze the relationships !
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SS2: Sort 3-D objects and 2-D shapes using one attribute, and explain the sorting rule!
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SS3: Replicate composite 2-D shapes and 3-D objects!
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SS4: Compare 2-D shapes to parts of 3-D objects in the environment!

Grade Two: Mathematics: Shape & Space:!

GCO: Describe 3-D objects and 2-D shapes, and analyze the relationships!
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SS7: Describe, compare and construct 3-D objects, including: cubes, spheres, cones, !
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cylinders, pyramids.!
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SS8: Describe, compare and construct 2-D shapes, including: triangles, squares, rec!
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tangles, circles. !

Materials!
- Chart paper and markers!
- Toothpicks!
- Play-doh or modelling clay!
- SMARTboard blank page!

Before (10 minutes)!

- In the previous geometry lesson, students explored foam 3D objects (cone, cube, cylinder,
sphere, pyramid) and filled in their own charts documenting what the shapes look like, how
they move, and also provided an example from the environment (ie: a cube looks like dice). !
- Using this information, students will help the teacher fill in the class chart titled Attributes of
3D objects. !
- This will provide an opportunity for students to share their thinking and will provide them with
a resource when they are building objects or sorting objects. !

During & After (50 minutes)!

- Students will go to their desks and wait for further instruction. !
- The teacher will hand out toothpicks and playdoh to each table. !
- Students will begin by making a sphere with playdoh. They will roll the playdoh in their palms
until it is smooth and round. The sphere will be smushed into a flat 2D circle. !

- Next, students will take from their circle and create four small balls. They will build a cube by
sticking the toothpicks into the balls and connecting them. !
- Students will then take a part their cube leaving only a square. They will use this square to
build up into a pyramid by adding one vertices at the top. !
- Students will take a part their pyramid to make a triangle. !
- The teacher will instruct students to create other 2D shapes and 3D objects that they have
been learning about (hexagon, rhombus, small rhombus, rectangle etc). !

Differentiation!
- Students will have access to example shapes to model after as well as hands-on materials!

Assessment!
- Students are assessed formatively using a checklist for specific grade 1 and grade 2 New
Brunswick Curricular Outcomes!