First Grade Online 2D Shapes Activity Using Pattern Blocks
Posted by Gina Coady on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 @ 09:45 AM
This delightful geometry lesson with Twiggles and Guppy helps early elementary students (Grades 1 and 2) explore composing and decomposing two-dimensional shapes through the use of interactive pattern blocks.
A straight-forward tutorial that begins with Twiggles and Guppy building a mosaic, encourages students to use pattern blocks while they explore plane shapes, make predictions about them, and build an understanding of part-whole relationships and properties of plane shapes.
Students are able to use geometric transformations and translate each shape by clicking and dragging each pattern block, then rotating and flipping each one to cover the outline. Unused shapes can be dragged to the trash can.
The lesson is ideal for whole class instruction and may be used with a projector or an interactive white board (with teacher assistance).
View the lesson here