Lesson Plan:
Shapes and Shadows
August 13, 2015
August 13, 2015
Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the shapes square, rectangle, and triangle.
Lesson
Introduction (5 minutes)
- Gather your students at the group area where you have set up the projector.
- Start with a simple object that the children can easily identify and make a shadow with it. Have your students identify it.
- Show your students the object, identify it verbally and visually, and then place it on the projector again.
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (5 minutes)
- 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 (5 minutes)
- 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 (15 minutes)
- 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.
Extend
Differentiation
- 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.
Review
Assessment (5 minutes)
- 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.
Review and Closing (15 minutes)
- Have students work collaboratively on a class mural by gluing the shapes onto the poster paper.
- Allow volunteers to label the shapes.
Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities
that guide learners through different concepts and skills.
They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.
Geometry at the preschool level involves identifying shapes and learning positional words. This guided lesson goes over these key concepts and vocabulary words, including top, bottom, up, down, in front of, behind, over, under and next to. Because geometry is one of the more visual math disciplines, it offers a chance for kids to build a fun, vibrant association with the subject of math.
Geometry at the preschool level involves identifying shapes and learning positional words.
This lesson includes printable activities:
Download All (5)
Song: Preschool Shapes Song
Game: Museum Spot the Shapes
Game: Shapes Hopper
Game: Bone Catcher 2
Story: The Shapeshifter
Game: Square Tangram Challenge
Game: Create Mosaics With Shapes
