Now... a questions for you guys. Next week I am beginning a math chapter on geometric solids and plane shapes. Sitting at my desk after school I began to rack my brain on some ways to bring this topic alive for my little ones. I came up empty handed. I began to wonder where I could come up with some great ideas and resources when it occurred to me to ask my bloggy buddies. So....does anyone know any novel ideas? I am feeling a little daunted.
Thanks a bunch,
Heather
13 comments:
Heather, sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the links won't let me download! Thanks for sharing these, though!
I agree with Paige I cannot download them either.
Tammy Daniels
tam118dans@gmail.com
Fixed! I forgot to set the google docs file to share. Thanks for letting me know. Whew!
Congrats on reaching 100 followers! Thank you for sharing, but it still won't let me download them.
Dana
Not sure if you fixed it or not but I am still having difficulty viewing them.
Okay, so this is embarrassing! I think it really is working now. It's moments like these that ensure I stay humble ;) Thanks for your patience.
I still doesn't work for me. . .just tried it.
ratsass@frontiernet.net
I, too, am starting a unit on geometric solids and am lacking good, concrete lessons. I'd love to hear what you find! For now, I will be teaching the unit from the district math adoption and supplementing with lessons from NCTM's Illuminations website.
Do you have a smartboard? I have some 3D shape lessons on that that I would share! Mrs. I's class has a 3D shape book she made. http://mrsisclass.blogspot.com/2011/03/3-d-shapes.html
The recording sheet came through but not the pictures! ;0)
Ok friends! I have a couple of ideas that I got from lessonplansos.com {click math and primary math and then geometry} HEAD THERE NOW! Their lessons are SUPER cheap (less than a dollar) and I've loved everything I got!
-Rachelle
whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com
Thanks for the great ideas you guys. Ali, yes I have a Smartboard and would love your 3D shapes. I will check out lesson plans SOS and Illuminations website this weekend. Is everyone able to access the centers now? I had my IT Director (aka my wonderful husband) work on it this morning. He does tech for a living and was a little baffled by my technical difficulties.
It might be a little late now, but when I did shapes I used toothpicks and marshmallows at a station for kids to build pyramids, cubes, and rectangular prisms. Also, my school uses Thinking Maps so we used a Bridge Map to show the relationships between the geometric figure and an actual object (ex: a basketball is the shape of a sphere AS a rubix cube is the shape of a cube).
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