4/5 Geometry/Measurement
Month
September
October
November
Essential Understanding
CCLEs
Geometry:
 Draw and Identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by
properties of their lines and angles. 4.G
o Discusses the results of putting together and taking apart 2D and 3-D shapes.
o Develops an understanding of the relationship between 2-D
and 3-D figures.
o Draws and identifies parts of shapes (in isolation and in 2-D
and 3-D shapes) such as points, lines, line segments, rays,
angles (right, obtuse, acute), perpendicular and parallel
lines.
First 20 Days of Math (MMSD) Grades 3-5:
 Exploration - center using: power polygons, Geoblocks,
Geoboards, pattern blocks, multi-link blocks so not first time
using them during lessons.
 Mini lesson format with students writing (recording
sheets/journal)/drawing thinking - with challenges.
 Routines, assessing, creating culture and climate to
understand math and take risks/respect student thinking
Measurement:
Focus Attribute: Liquid Capacity
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 2.1
What is a Polygon?
Geometry:
 Draw and Identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by
properties of their lines and angles. 4.G
o Discusses the results of putting together and taking apart 2D and 3-D shapes. Develops an understanding of the
relationship between 2-D and 3-D figures.
o Draws and identifies parts of shapes (in isolation and in 2-D
and 3-D shapes) such as points, lines, line segments, rays,
angles (right, obtuse, acute), perpendicular and parallel
lines.
o Draw nets and plan views of 3-D shapes. Uses nets and
plan views to build 3-D shapes.
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 2.2 &2.3
Making Polygons (2 days)
Geometry:
 Draw and Identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by
properties of their lines and angles. 4.G
o Investigate congruency and similarity of 2-D shapes.
Identify corresponding parts of similar and congruent
shapes.
4th Grade Invest., Unit 7, 2.3, 2.4
Drawing Before Building, Integrating Views to Make a Cubed
Building (2 days)
Measurement:
 Understand concepts of volume and relate volume to
multiplication and division. 5.MD
Measurement:
Focus Attribute: Volume
VdW, 3-5, 8.5 pp. 217-218
Can you make it?
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 2.3 A CC 16-20
Identifying Geometric Figure
4th Grade Invest., Unit 7, 1.2
Moving Between Solids and Silhouettes (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 7, 2.1, 2.2
Building with Cubes (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 7, 3.1, 3.2
How Many Cubes? Patterns from the Bottom Up (3 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 7, 3.3, 3.4
Volume of Boxes, cont. (3 days)
4/5 Geometry/Measurement
Month
December
Essential Understanding
 Draw and Identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by
properties of their lines and angles. 4.G
o Indentifies figures with line symmetry and draws lines of
symmetry.
Geometry:
 Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and
mathematical. 5.G
o Locate, plot, and interpret the meaning of coordinates on
maps and first-quadrant coordinate grids.
o Recognize real-world contexts in which coordinate grids are
useful.
o Understand what a coordinate plane is, including numbered
perpendicular axes, origin, coordinate pairs, etc.
CCLEs
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 4.2
Symmetry and Area (2 days)
VdW, 3-5, 8.20. p.239-240
Coordinate Slides (2 days)
VdW 8.16 p. 235 Dot Symmetry Grid
Measurement:
Focus Attributes: Length and Area
January
Measurement:
 Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of
measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit. 4.MD
February
March
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 4.3, 4.4
Crazy Cakes, Decomposing Shapes (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 4.5, 4.6
Area of Rectangles, Area of Polygons (2 days)
Focus Attributes: Length and Area
5th Grade Invest., Unit 5, 2.1, 2.3
Sequence of Squares, Building a Sequence of Rectangles (2
days)
Geometry:
 Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their
properties.
o Sorts and describes shapes. Discusses similarities and
differences among classes of shapes using appropriate
geometric language.
o Classifies 2-D shapes based on properties of their lines and
angles, by parallel or perpendicular lines, and by sizes of
angles (right, obtuse, acute).
5th Grade Invest., Unit 5, 3.1 Building Similar Polygons (2
days)
Measurement:
 Understand Concepts of angle and measure of angles. 4.MD
Focus Attribute: Angles
5th Grade Invest., Unit 5, 1.1 Triangles (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 2.4 Sort Quadrilaterals (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 3.1 Making Right Angles (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 3.2-3.3
More or Less Than 90 Degrees (2 days)
5th Grade Invest., Unit 5, 1.5-1.6
Angle Sizes in Polygons (2 days)
4/5 Geometry/Measurement
Month
April
Essential Understanding
Measurement:
 Convert like measurement units within a given measurement
system. 5.MD
 Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of
measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit. 4.MD
o Include all four operations and conversions between units
such as feet and inches and hours and minutes.
CCLEs
VdW, 3-5, p. 259-260
Making and Using Rulers (2 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 1.1-1.2
Measurement Benchmarks and Measurement Tools (2 days)
Focus Attribute: Length
May
June
Geometry:
 Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their
properties.
o Understand that properties belonging to a category of 2-D
figures also belong to all subcategories of that category
(e.g., all rectangles have four right angles; squares are
rectangles, so all squares have four right angles).
o Classify 2-D figures in a hierarchy based on properties (e.g.,
squares are rectangles; rectangles are parallelograms;
parallelograms are quadrilaterals; quadrilaterals are
polygons, etc.)
Data:
 Represent and interpret data 4.MD & 5.MD to make a line plot to
display a data set.
4th Grade Invest., Unit 4, 1.3
Assessment: How Long is Our Classroom? (2 days)
5th Grade Invest., Unit 5, 1.2-1.4 (3 days)
4th Grade Invest., Unit 2, 1.1-1.4 (3 days)