Shapes and Shadows

Explicit instruction/Teacher modeling

• Tell your students that you will be identifying shapes like you did with object that made the shadow.
• Show the students some of the different shapes, and identify them as a group.

Guided practice/Interactive modeling

• Review the qualities of the shapes. For example, a square has four sides that are the same size.
• Place a shape on the shadow board and have students identify it.

Independent working time

• Have students interact with the shapes and shadows.
• Students may construct creations with the shapes, for example, a house with a square and a triangle on top.
• Encourage students to work with a partner and identify the shapes they are using in their figures.

• Enrichment: Encourage advanced students to work with and identify 3D shapes, such as cylinders, cubes, and pyramids.
• Support: Have struggling students match different shapes that you traced onto a transparency as a review activity.

• Have students identify shapes as you point to them.
• Have students complete one or more of the following worksheets: Shape Jumble, Shapes 'n' Sizes, and Tracing Basic Shapes.
• Collect the worksheets and review them later to assess students' understanding of the lesson content.

• Have students work collaboratively on a class mural by gluing the shapes onto the poster paper.
• Allow volunteers to label the shapes.