RPSEC Student Programs for
South Carolina & Georgia Schools

 

Shape Up!

Student Programs Lesson Information, Correlations to Standards, and Post Visit Activities

Shape Up!: (Grades 1-2 • 60 minutes) Students will identify, describe, compare, and contrast attributes of two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. They will explore sides, angles, bases, faces, edges, and corners. Using pattern blocks, geoboards and other manipulatives, students will create, combine, and subdivide polygons to create new shapes and designs. They will also experiment with symmetry and shape transformation including slides, flips and turns.

Traveling Science Kits that support or extend this lesson
Related Children’s Literature List
Pre & Post Visit Activities

This lesson supports the following mathematics standards:

South Carolina Schools

Georgia Schools

Grade 1: SCMS 4.1, 4.2, 4.4
Grade 2: SCMS 4.1, 4.2, 4.3

Grade 1 Mathematics
Geometry
Standard 1-4:
The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes a sense of two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes, symmetry, and relative positions and directions in space.

Indicators:
4.1
Identify the three-dimensional geometric shapes prism, pyramid, and cone.
4.2 Analyze the two-dimensional shapes circle, square, triangle, and rectangle.
4.4 Identify a line of symmetry.

Grade 2 Mathematics
Geometry
Standard 2-4:
The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes an understanding of basic spatial reasoning and the connection between the identification of basic attributes and the classification of three-dimensional shapes.

Indicators:
4.1
Analyze the three-dimensional shapes spheres, cubes, cylinders, prisms, pyramids, and cones according to the number and shape of the faces, edges, corners, and bases of each.
4.2 Identify multiple lines of symmetry.
4.3 Predict the results of combining and subdividing polygons and circles.

Grade 1: M1G1 a, b / M1G2
Grade 2: M2G1 / M2G2 a, b

Grade 1 Mathematics
M1G1:
Students will study and create various two and three-dimensional figures and identify basic figures (squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles) within them.

Indicators:
a.
Build, draw, name, and describe triangles, rectangles, pentagons, and hexagons.
b.
Build, represent, name, and describe cylinders, cones, and rectangular prisms (objects that have the shape of a box).

M1G2: Students will compare, contrast, and/or classify geometric shapes by the common attributes of position, shape, size, number of sides, and number of corners.

Grade 2 Mathematics
M2G1:
Students will describe and classify plane figures (triangles, squares, rectangles, trapezoids, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and irregular polygonal shapes) according to the number of edges and vertices and the sizes of angles (right angle, obtuse, acute).

M2G2: Students will describe and classify solid geometric figures (prisms, cylinders, cones, and spheres) according to such things as the number of edges and vertices and the number and shape of faces and angles.

Indicators:
a.
Recognize the (plane) shapes of the faces of a geometric solid and count the number of faces of each type.
b.
Recognize the shape of an angle as a right angle, an obtuse angle, or an acute angle.

Please direct inquiries to:
Ruth Patrick Science Education Center
c/o Student Programs
USC Aiken, Box 3, 471 University Parkway, Aiken, SC 29801
(803) 641-3313 from Augusta 278-1967 Ext. 3313

RPSEC@usca.edu


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Ruth Patrick Science Education Center
Center of Excellence in Educational Technology
University of South Carolina Aiken
471 University Parkway
Aiken, SC 29801
803-641-3313

URL: http://rpsec.usca.edu/student/Programs/ShapeUp/ShapeUp.html (April 2008)