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Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes media type="custom" key="7759431"

Assignment type: Learning to Identify Shapes

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand what shapes are
 * Student will be able to identify the main shapes

Time required to complete this lesson:   1 hour

Title of lesson: What are Shapes?

Resources/materials needed:
 * Smartboard
 * Laptop
 * Internet

Description of lesson: Student will take a seat on the carpet at the front of the classroom where each student can clearly see the smartboard. The Teacher will haver her laptop hooked up to the smartboard which will display an interactive game where when you click on a shape it first shows a drawing formed of it and then says the name of it. Children will take turns guessing which shape is which and learning to identify them.

Assignment (homework or in-class: this is how the learner will practice the learning that has just occurred): After the lesson students will go back to their seats and get a paper with shapes on them for the children to trace and then attempt to draw their own.

Technology used: Smartboard

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:

Fun animation and voices catch student attention and get them focused on what they are learning. Being able to use the smartboard and an interactive game to teach students about shapes will help them to better remember what they learned as a posed to just watching the teacher lecture in a boring old way.

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Drawing Shapes

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand how to create shapes themselves
 * Student will be able to draw shapes

Time required to complete this lesson:  30 min.

Title of lesson: Making shapes

Resources/materials needed: > >
 * Paper
 * Markers
 * Printer
 * [[file:shapes lesson plan student.doc]]
 * [[file:shapes lesson plan teacher.doc]]
 * [|Vocaroo]

Description of lesson. Students will learn the name of each of the shapes and be shown how to draw each of them, they will then (with the help of some dotted worksheets) be able to practice drawing each shape themselves.

Assignment: Print out the worksheets and practice drawing shapes and create a Vocaroo describing your favorite shape. Visit the Vocaroo website and create a recording telling me about your favorite shape.

CHILDREN: having trouble reading all the directions? Click here to listen to them! media type="custom" key="7557653"

My example: http://vocaroo.com/?media=viv6HLv8hVA4Zo1Mg

Technology used: Webpage with sound and web links

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: Students are able to run their mouse over each shape and hear the name of the shape. This is a great way for them to get a direct association with the shape and its name, giving them a great interactive way to remember the name of each shape.

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Creating a slideshow about shapes

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand how to identify different shapes
 * Student will be able to see what shapes can be found in different foods
 * Student will understand that shapes can be found in many different places and things

Time required to complete this lesson: 45 min.

Title of lesson: Creating a shapes slideshow

Resources/materials needed: - www.slide.com

Description of lesson: Students will use the website www.slide.com to create a slideshow of pictures of foods that are in the shape of all the basic shapes we have learned about in class. (Circle, square, rectangle, and triangle).

Assignment: Visit the website www.slide.com and create your own slideshow of pictures of four different foods that are in the shape of a circle, square, rectangle, and triangle. Here is and example of the slideshow I made. media type="custom" key="7557917"

Technology used:

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Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Exploring different shapes

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand about more shapes then just the basic ones
 * Student will be able to conduct research to learn

Time required to complete this lesson: one week

Title of lesson: Learning about Different Shapes

Resources/materials needed:
 * Poster Board
 * Crayons
 * Markers
 * Scissors
 * Glue
 * http://www.shelfari.com/o1514191906

Description of lesson: Students will visit my tumblr website where they will view the video and go through the directions posted to learn about, research, and create a poster of new shapes.

Assignment: Create a poster board with new shapes you learned about in this lesson!

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Technology used: Tumblr website with links to different websites.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: Giving student's the power and tools to take charge of their own learning through research using all the tools of the powerful internet.

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes media type="custom" key="7763473"

Assignment type: How shapes are found and used in the world

Lesson objectives:
 * Students will gain a higher level understanding of shapes.
 * Student will be able to see how shapes are used and needed in the world.
 * Student will understand shapes in relation to the world.

Time required to complete this lesson:   1hr.

Title of lesson: Shapes in our World

Resources/materials needed: >
 * [[file:Scavenger Hunt.doc]]
 * Paper
 * Pencil

Description of lesson: Students will learn about where shapes can be found throughout the world, but viewing the word document and browsing the listed websites. After looking over all the sites, they will look around their house and make a list of all the shapes that they can find in their house to bring to class with them the following day.

Assignment: Make a list of all the shapes you can find around your house.

Technology used: Websites to browse and learn.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: In giving students the tools and instruction to browse and learn from the internet, they are learning in a more interactive way which gives them the feeling of controlling and being a part of their own learning.

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Drawing and counting shapes on the computer

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand how to create shapes using the computer
 * Student will be able to identify and count how many of each shape they have made

Time required to complete this lesson: 45 min.

Title of lesson: Drawing and counting shapes on the computer

Resources/materials needed: -Computer - www.tuxpaint.org

Description of lesson. Children will us a computer tool called tuxpaint which can be downloaded at www.tuxpaint.org. They will then create shapes using this web tool.

Assignment: Student must download tuxpaint and use it to create as many shapes as they can think of. Afterwards they will count and record how many of each shape they created, next they will print the page and bring it to class for further discussion.

Technology used: Web2.0 tool called tuxpaint.

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way: Students are able to create and see shapes in a different way then just using pen and paper. They can use cool fonts and change colors when creating shapes in order to pull them in and make their learning more exciting and inventive.

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Shapes Cube

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand
 * Student will be able to
 * Student will understand

Time required to complete this lesson:

Title of lesson:

Resources/materials needed: -Computer - www.picturetrail.com

Description of lesson: Student will create a colorful and creative picture cube with all of their favorite shapes on it using the web2.0 tool at www.picturetrail.com

Assignment: Create your own picture cube withe your favorite shapes on it at www.picturetrail.com. When you are done e-mail it to me and I will post them to our website and we will share them in class. MS. RUEGER'S PICTURE CUBE EXAMPLE: media type="custom" key="7664297"

Technology used:

The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Finding shapes around their homes

Lesson objectives (include 2 or 3):
 * Student will understand
 * Student will be able to
 * Student will understand

Time required to complete this lesson:  30 min.

Title of lesson: Shapes at my house

Resources/materials needed:

Description of lesson (if you were to describe to a parent what was happening in the classroom for this lesson, what would you say in a few paragraphs).

Assignment (homework or in-class: this is how the learner will practice the learning that has just occurred):

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Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Create Trading Cards with Shapes

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand the definition of each shape
 * Student will be able to identify shapes and how many sides or angle each on has.

Time required to complete this lesson:  30 min.

Title of lesson: Creating Trading Cards with Shapes

Resources/materials needed: - Computer - http://bighugelabs.com

Description of lesson:

Assignment:Visit the website http://bighugelabs.com and create a trading card with your favorite shape on in as well as how many sides it has and a description of the shape. Print it and bring to class. MS. RUEGER'S EXAMPLE TRADING CARD:

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Grade Level: Kindergarten

Unit: Shapes

Assignment type: Creating a slideshow about your favorite shape

Lesson objectives:
 * Student will understand the definition of each shape
 * Student will be able to identify characteristics of each shape
 * Student will understand differences and similarities amongst shapes

Time required to complete this lesson: 1 hr.

Title of lesson: Creating shapes slideshow

Resources/materials needed: - Computer - http://280slides.com/

Description of lesson:

Assignment: Visit the website http://280slides.com/ and create your very own slideshow presenting one shape of your choice, including the characteristics and pictures of the shape. MS. RUEGER SLIDESHOW EXAMPLE:

Technology used:

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