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Good Practice
1. Title of the
activity /
practice
2. Origin of the
activity
3. Target group
(age of the
learners, type,
size of the
group)
4. School
subjects +
topics
concerned
How to use geometric shapes to design your materials
Kartal Doğa Primary Schools
8-10 years old
2nd & 3rd Grade Primary School
21 primary school learners
Maths; Geometric Shapes and Geometric Objects
Social Sciences: Highlight production, consumption and productivity
concepts with reference to recycling concept
Students will be able to
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5. Educational
goals of the
practice
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shapes
from cube, triangular prism, tetragonal prism and cylinder
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different geometric shapes.
6. Duration
7. Place
40+ 40 mins
Classroom
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Introduction:
Students' attention is drawn with the video where secondary school
students present the geometric objects they make from snow. (6.25
minutes)
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XQwTdePEAE)
A short question-answer session is done on the video, the concepts of
innovation and recycling are stated in the warm-up for students.
II. Learning Process:
The video given in the link on geometric shapes is watched and short
notification is made on edge, corner and side concepts. (2.54
minutes).
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrNxIgU9Hc)
Cube, triangular prism, rectangular prism, tetragonal prism, cylinder
concepts are written on the board and small mind maps are drawn on
the number of edges, corners and sides they have (e.g.:cube= 12
edges, 8 corners, 6 sides.) Students are expected to find the numbers
of edges, corners and sides using the geometric shapes made from
waste materials. Square, triangle, rectangle and circle models are
drawn on the notebook using different sides of the geometric objects.
8. Short
description of
the activity
Later
the
teacher
shows
the
online
link
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_1.html to make them relate parts
of a whole unit to written description and fraction. Students learn how
to divide the geometric shapes into equally sized pieces to make them
aware of how the size and shapes of geometrics shapes change.
In order to support the issue, students are asked to form cubes,
triangular prism, and rectangular prism and cube prism models paying
attention to the number of edges and corners with the toothpicks and
modeling clays they have. Forming models of houses, etc. could be
allowed in order to make the activity more entertaining.
III. Conclusion : We decorate unused empty drug boxes, candy
boxes and kitchen rolls with waste paper and cardboard pieces using
glue. After the objects are covered, the corners, edges and sides are
colored with different colored pencils and the concepts of scorner,
edge and side and their number in each geometric shape are
highlighted.
The students are asked to make original designs with the help of the
created geometric objects, and they are expected to create different
designs serving recycling. The students should perform this study
using more than one boxes in groups. Then, the students in different
groups discuss about the living areas they created with boxes.
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IV. Evaluation:
Groups are expected to present the models made from the boxes
reused and make verbal assessments on the models of each other.
Reflection:
9. Evaluation
Feedback is received from the students with the reflection questions.
1. Can you tell where you had problems during the course?
2. What did you like most during the course?
3. Which activities would you prefer to change if the course were
to be repeated?
10. Materials /
Resources /
technical
requirements
11. Tips for
educators /
theoretical
background (if
applicable) or
curriculum
context
(optional)
Waste boxes in the shape of cubes, triangular prism, rectangular
prism, tetragonal prism and cylinder, waste paper and cardboards,
glue, color pencils, modeling clay, toothpicks or similar small wooden
sticks,
mathematics
notebook,
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_1.html (Virtual manipulatives for
Number & Operations).
The students are asked to make original designs with the help of the
created geometric objects, and they are expected to create different
designs serving recycling. The students should perform this study
using more than one boxes in groups. Then, the students in different
groups discuss about the living areas they created with boxes.
Figure 1. Screenshots from
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_102_g_1_t_1.html?from=topic_t_1.html
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Photos from Implementation
Figure2: Kartal Doğa Primary School Students