Geometry Lesson Plans - Shapes 3D Geometry Apps

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Geometry Lesson Plans

A Practical Guide For Educators

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This is a set of lesson plans that complement the app `Shapes - 3D Geometry Learning' on the iPad, Android tablet or desktop computer. These are suggested devices to use in the classroom, but teachers may use also other Android or iOS mobile devices. An experienced educator who has taught every single grade ranging from kindergarten to twelfth grade wrote the lesson plans. Too often teachers find an app they like but are unable to find the time to align it with the curriculum that they are required to teach. Our intent with these plans is to allow the teachers using them to be able to access the lesson plans and seamlessly integrate the plans into their teaching.

The `Shapes' lesson plans are divided into two groups, one set of lesson plans for younger students and one set of plans for older students. This is the younger students set of plans which can be used with elementary children and these are lessons one through six. For the teachers of younger children there are lessons for kindergarten, grade one, grade two, grade three, grade four, and grade five.

The lesson plans are ready to use in the classroom. The purpose of these lessons is to encourage the acquisition of various math skills through creative play. These lessons cater to students who have a variety of learning styles and emphasize visual learning as well as hands-on kinesthetic activities. Each lesson plan has the same organizational structure. There is a lesson title. The next element in the lesson objective which is in the SWBAT format, students will be able to followed by an action verb related to learning. Most lessons in the set have more than one lesson objective with action verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy. The third element of each lesson is the Common Core State Standards to which they are aligned. Next there is an activity title followed by a list of materials needed to teach the lesson and suggested amount of time/number of classes that the teachers should use to teach the lesson. After that there is an activity description which explains how to execute the lesson. Finally, each lesson ends with the supporting worksheet.

The benefit of using these lessons is not only that you will be teaching your students math lessons and skills that are aligned to the Common Core State Standards, but you will also see high levels of engagement in your classroom. This current generation of students who sit in our classrooms are digital natives and they respond well to instruction that infuses technology into the lesson plans.

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If your classroom is equipped with iPADs using ARKit you may use Augmented Reality features with which students can place solids on their desks and examine them in 3D. "Shapes - 3D Geometry Learning" app is integrated with Schoolwork app available on iPads. Schoolwork helps you easily distribute and collect assignments, keep an eye on student progress in educational apps, and collaborate one on one with students from anywhere, in real time.

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LESSON ONE

Using Shapes in Kindergarten

Teachers using Shapes at the kindergarten level could use the following lesson objectives in their lesson plans: ? SWBAT develop math readiness skills as they are introduced to shapes and colors ? SWBAT recall the names of different basic shapes such as squares, circles and triangles ? SWBAT compare and contrast a 2d vs. a 3d shape

This lesson relates to the following Common Core State Standards: Identify and name shapes.

CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.2 Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size. CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.A.3 Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, "flat") or three-dimensional ("solid"). Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes. CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.B.4 Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/"corners") and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length). CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.B.5 Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes. CCSS.Math.Content.K.G.B.6 Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, "Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?"

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Activity One - What Color is the Shape?

Materials Needed: ? One teacher iPad, Android tablet or desktop computer ? Connectivity to project Shapes app onto a large screen ? What color is the shape worksheet? (see below) ? One writing utensil for every student in the class

Suggested Time Frame for the Activity: 30 Minutes ? Teacher spends first 10 minutes of the lesson passing out the materials and

reviewing the 4 colors ? Teacher spends the middle 15 minutes of the lesson having students complete the

worksheet and reviewing the shapes displayed on the whiteboard ? Teacher spends the last five minutes cleaning up and collecting papers

Activity description: The teacher displays a shape on the large screen: the shape can be any of the 4 colors used within the Shapes app. The students will use the following space on their paper to record what color the shape is:

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Activity One Worksheet

What color is the shape

What color is the shape

What color is the shape

What color is the shape

What color is the shape

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LESSON TWO

Using Shapes in 1st Grade

Teachers using Shapes at the first grade level could use the following lesson objectives in their lesson plans: ? SWBAT Compare and contrast the difference between a 2 dimensional shape and a

3- dimensional shape ? SWBAT Recall how many 2d shapes there are in a 3d shape (using the nets feature

in the app) SWBAT Count how many faces and edges are in a 3d shape

This lesson relates to the following Common Core State Standards: Identify and name shapes.

CCSS.Math.Content.1.G.A.1 Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes. CCSS.Math.Content.1.G.A.2 Compose two-dimensional shapes (rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, halfcircles, and quarter-circles) or three-dimensional shapes (cubes, right rectangular prisms, right circular cones, and right circular cylinders) to create a composite shape, and compose new shapes from the composite shape. CCSS.Math.Content.1.G.A.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.

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Activity Two - Count the Vertices, Faces and the Edges in a Shape

Materials Needed: ? One teacher iPad, Android tablet or desktop computer ? Connectivity to project Shapes app onto a large screen ? Count the faces and the edges worksheet for each student in the class ? One writhing utensil for every student in the class

Suggested Time Frame for the Activity: 40 Minutes

? Teacher spends first 10 minutes of the lesson passing out the materials and reviewing how to count to 20

? Teacher spends the middle 20 minutes of the lesson having students complete the work sheet; for the first two examples the teacher will complete the activity with the class, but the teacher will allow the students work whether in pairs or independently

? Teacher spends the last 10 minutes having a class discussion about the final column in the worksheet and collecting the materials

Activity description: The teacher displays the Shapes app on the board and highlights the faces edges and the vertices in some of the basic grade level shapes. The students take turns counting how many faces and how many edges are in the shape. The activity can be taught at all elementary levels but I wrote this activity with first graders in mind.

If students have iPads with ARKit they can examine 3D shapes in Augmented Reality when completing the activity. They only need to click AR button when a displaying a 3D shape.

This activity may be managed easily with Schoolwork, so that students can add their Worksheet to the assignment handed out by teacher with a link to the Shapes app.

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