Common Core State Standards Lesson Plan (Page 3 of 8) in pdf

Common Core State Standards Lesson Plan

on it) Here is the wanted poster the police sent over. I have been advised that they are disguising

themselves as everyday objects, so we have to look closely and look everywhere. Hang up the “I can”

statements on the board and read them to children, have the children repeat back to you what they are

going to be able to do. Be sure to use the statements throughout the lesson, example: “I can find shapes

in my environment and describe where it is, I found a circle, it is in the block center next to the dinosaur

under the truck.

Lesson Outline:

Modeling (2 minutes)

I found one this morning hiding on my desk next to my lunch box. (Hold up any object and describe it to

the children.) I found this toy box. It is a rectangle. (Point to the bottom of the box and run finger around

the outline of the rectangle). This rectangle is not flat like my poster is; it has height, width, and length

dimension to it. My poster only has length and width it is called a 2-D shape or flat shape, because my

toy box has length and width like the flat one but it also has height it is called a 3-D shape or solid. A 3-d

shape like this is called a rectangular prism.

Guided practice (15 minutes consecutively with the whole group portion of lesson)

Walk around with the children and give hints as needed, such as: look at the door; I wonder what shape

is disguised as our door? Look under the table something is hiding, it’s not a flat shape but I can see the

end of the crayon is a circle, did you see it? Can you catch it?

Differentiated Instructions

(15 minutes) Whole group: Take your paper and fold it in half long ways or like a hot dog (model

this). On the left side of the fold draw each of the shapes from the poster. When you are on your

detective shape hunt walk slowly and look closely at everything and when you find one of the wanted

shapes on your paper put a check mark next to it you have 15 minutes to do your detective work. After

13 minutes of the detective hunt, tell the children to freeze, Order from the police is “You have 2

minutes to find 1 shape that was hiding really well and bring it with you to the carpet so we can turn it in

to the police. Remember where you found the wanted shape so you can describe what shape it is and

where tell you found it.”

(1 minutes per child) Independent: Have each child tell you about the wanted shape they

captured to turn in to the police and describe where they found it. (Such as: I found a circle hiding in the

kitchen center it was in the sink, under a cup. It is a plate!)

(5 minutes per 5 kids) Small group: How many shapes did you find altogether? Which shape did

you find the most of? Which shape did you find the least of? (Create a bar-graph to color in as you count

up each shape the children found.

Author’s Name: Lisa Cline

Contact information: Lisa.m.cline@cmsdnet.net

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