Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Third

Content Area: Geometry

Skills: Identify and demonstrate the use of area, perimeter, rectangle solid (prism), cube, cone, sphere, cylinder, points, lines, line segments, rays, right angles, acute angles, obtuse angles, congruent figures, sides (edges), corners, and faces-

Prerequisites:

Identify shapes (plane and solid), research various communities (see communities in activity section of this sheet), completed community grid sheet in prior lesson, and knowledge of above geometric terms-

Instructional Practices: Connections to the Real World

Materials Needed: Girded, squared poster board from activity on ordered pairs, any plane and solid figure shapes, example: Styrofoam balls, paper roll cylinders, milk cartons, shapes from die cut, string or yarn-

Technology: Linkway

Pattern Blocks

Patterns and Blocks

Reflections on Patterns

Activity:

Students are grouped to build communities, for example: industrial, farm and agriculture, shopping, mining, logging, fishing/wildlife or other natural resources, communities, native Americans communities, military, college and political community (Washington D.C.). Students should only use the SKILLS listed above to build their community. The students refer to their completed ordered pairs grid sheet to build the community from formed geometric shapes. When finished, students share their community with class demonstrating a knowledge of all SKILLS LISTED ABOVE.

Theme Idea: WTW Form II, Unit on Communities, Naming Again