Two and Three Dimensional Shapes
Grade: 1st Grade
Content Area TEKS: Math (6B) The students is expected to identify circles, triangles, and rectangles, including squares, and describe the shape of balls, boxes, cans, and cones.
Technology Application TEKS: (K-2) Foundations (1B) The student is expected to start and exit programs as well as create, name and save files. Solving Problems (7b) The student is expected to use appropriate software including the use of word processing and multimedia, to express ideas and solve problems. Communication (11A) The student is expected to publish information in a variety of media including, but not limited to, printed copy or monitor display.
Student Activity
After studying shapes and their attributes in class, students would be divided into groups. Each group would be given a digital camera and instructed on its use. Then students would explore their environment, inside and outside, to see what shapes they could find. Each group would take no more than five pictures of circles, rectangles, squares, triangles, balls, boxes, cones, and cans. If they could not find at least three pictures of a particular shape, they could supplement with pictures from clip art.
Students would then download the pictures to the computer with the teacher’s assistance and work in their group to produce a PowerPoint presentation of the shapes in their environment, with assistance from the teacher as needed. The presentation must identify the attributes of each shape as well as have good pictorial representations. Each group would present their presentation; identify the shapes, their attributes, and examples. Students would also be responsible to answer any questions other students may have about their presentation.
Sample Product:
Shapes in Our World
http://www.fisd.us/Primary/teachers/ldowns/technologyintegrationlesson_files/Shapes%20in%20Our%20World_files/frame.htm
Assessment: A rubric would be used to evaluate students on their content, organization, oral presentation, participation in the project and participation as an audience.