Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 1, Math Std 9: Identify solid shapes in the environment, including cubes, rectangular prisms, cones, spheres, and cylinders.

Lesson Plans: Shape Hunt In this lesson students are given opportunities to recognize, describe, build, and explore shapes in many different contexts. Exploring Geometry In this lesson students will learn to recognize three dimensional models; describe attributes of solids and make comparisons between different solids. Important Shapes Students will learn the attributes of 3 dimensional solid shapes. This lesson uses the book titled the Important Book by Margret Brown. What Do You Feel? Students will identify shapes of sold figures by their sense of touch. Looking for Shapes Students will identify plane figures and associate them with the corresponding solid figures. Students will identify geometric shapes seen in the environment. Identifying Solid Figures This is a hands-on activity in which students identify and learn the characteristics of solid figures. Figures studied are squares (cubes), rectangles (rectangular prisms), circles (cylinders, cones and spheres), ovals, and triangles (cones). Candy is used to represent the shapes in the activity. Shapes in the Classroom This lesson will teach students to identify solid figures found in the classroom and in magazines. Students will also learn more about solid figures using the Internet.

Resources: Shape, Space, and Measure: Shape This is an interactive web site that gives students practice in identifying attributes of solid shapes. Click on the link "Shape" to access this activity. Buzzing With Shapes Tic tac toe with shapes; drag the counter to the shape that has that amount of sides. Solid Figure Factory This site allows students to practice identifying solid figure shapes. When the student correctly identifies the shape, a machine makes the shape into an object the student may see in everyday life.
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