I've Seen That Shape Before

In this lesson, students learn the names of solid geometric shapes and explore their properties. At various centers, they use physical models of simple solid shapes, including cubes, cones, spheres, rectangular prisms, and triangular prisms.

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Standards & Objectives

Learning objectives:

Students will:

Identify positions using the terms before, after, and between.
Name positions using ordinal numbers.
Create a set that corresponds to a given number less than 10.
Count the elements in a set of less than 10 members.

Essential and guiding questions:

What number words did we use today that tell us how many we have of something?

What words did we use that tell about order?

Make a train with 10 buttons or less. How many buttons are in Judy's train? In Mark's?

Here is Sam's button train. Which button is in the third place? The 10th place?

Look at your train. Who has a red button in the fifth place?

What place comes after the sixth place in line? After the third place?

What place comes before the fourth place? Before the 10th place?

How many buttons will come before the sixth button in a train?

What place is between the second and fourth place?

Lesson Variations

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Applying

References

Contributors:

Angela Hamilton

Originator:

Ayers Institute for Learning & Innovation