Grade:  1                                Integrated Discipline:  Social Skills

NE Standards:

1.4.2 By the end of first grade, students will identify, describe, and create circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.

Objectives:

- To identify a square, triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon accurately

- To list features of different shapes correctly                                            

- To recognize shapes by their features accurately

Assessment:

- Students will accurately list features of different shapes.

- Students will correctly name the shape being shown.

Provisions for Special Needs: 

Describe the shapes to the student individually and help list its features.

Materials:

Pencil

Paper

Paper shapes (square, triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon)

White/Chalk Board

Procedures:

Vocabulary:

Rhombus

Square

Circle

Triangle

Rectangle

Features

Springboard:

T:  Explain to the students how there are different shapes.

S:  Sit in a place where they can see the teacher and write on a piece of paper.

Activities:

T:  Distribute squares to all the children in the class.

S:  Collect one square and place in front of them

T:  Hold up the square and ask the students to describe the shape.

S:  Describe the different aspects of the shape and write them on a piece of paper.

T: Write the students' responses on the board.

S:  Raise hand and list the features you found

T:  Say the name of each shape.

S:  Repeat the name of each shape, following the same procedure for each one: square, triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon.

Closure:

- Ask the students what shapes they learned about.

- Ask the students what the different characteristics of each shape are.

- Ask the students where they see these shapes in their everyday lives. 

References:

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/lessonplans/esmp/perfectfit/perfectfit2_procedure.shtm

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