Saturday, February 20, 2010

PATTERN BLOCK LESSON PLAN - Kindergarten

Objective: Students will recognize that shapes can be combined to make other shapes.

Materials:
  • Pattern blocks: 6 green triangles, 2 red trapezoids, 2 orange squares, 2 blue parallelograms, 2 tan parallelograms, 2 yellow hexagons.
  • Smartboard/computers.
  • Workmats from www.pearsonsuccess.net
  • Workbook pages: 50-52.

Procedure:

  • Introduce with Interactive Learning Video: 7-03 Geometry: Making Shapes from Other Shapes
  • Class discussion: Pose problem: Miss Smith wants to use small shapes to make this island in her pond. Hold up a trapezoid. How can she figure out how many of this shape to use? Have children share their ideas before modeling the solution.
  • Group discussion: Guided practice on Smart-board
  • Break up into groups 1) group with teacher smartboard 2) computers 3) individual or group work in pairs using hands on manipulatives - pattern blocks

Assessment:

  • Participation
  • Work-mat
  • Practice pages

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