About This Lesson
Using the Common Core-aligned Ship Shape lesson, students will demonstrate their understanding of basic shapes by using several cut out shapes including trapezoids, half circles, circles, squares, and rectangles, gluing them to a piece of paper in the shape of a ship and discussing their design using the correct shape names with 100% accuracy.
- CCSS.MATH .CONTENT.K.G.A.1 – Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front, and next to.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.2 – Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.1 – Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size); build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
- CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.G.A.3 – Partition circles and rectangles into two and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, fourths, and quarters, and use the phrases half of, fourth of, and quarter of. Describe the whole as two of, or four of the shares. Understand for these examples that decomposing into more equal shares creates smaller shares.
Additional Texas Standards listed in lesson plan.
