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Frog Garden Party! Toads and Triangles in the Math Garden

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Title:

 Frog Garden Party! Toads and Triangles in the Math Garden

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 https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/e432eb2c-0669-4feb-9573-3b2a7e047bf2/frog-garden-party-toads-and-triangles-in-the-math-garden-project-learning-garden/

Content Source:

 PBS
Type: Lesson/Unit Plan

Overview:

Students will explore geometry and frogs in the garden by going on a triangle hunt to find, measure and sketch angles, rays, triangles, and parallel and perpendicular lines. Students will create a garden habitat that attracts frogs and toads, hold a triangle-themed party to welcome frogs and toads, and select healthy triangular snacks.

Content Standard(s):
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 4
27. Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse), and perpendicular and parallel lines, and identify these in two-dimensional figures.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Describe the characteristics of a given figure.
    Example: An obtuse angle is described as two rays that meet at a point called a vertex with an angle measure greater than 90 degrees.
  • Draw a given figure correctly using a variety of tools.

    • Example: Use a ruler, paper, and pencil to draw two points and connect them to create a line segment.
  • Identify the given figures in two-dimensional shapes.

    • Example: Given a rectangle ABCD, identify that angle ABC is a right angle and that lines AB and CD are parallel.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Point
  • Line
  • Line segment
  • Ray
  • Right angle
  • Acute angle
  • Obtuse angle
  • Perpendicular lines
  • Parallel lines
  • Two dimensional figure
  • Vertex
  • Angle measure
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • defining characteristics of geometric figures, such as points, lines, line segments, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Draw points, lines, line segments, rays, angles (right, acute, obtuse).
  • Draw parallel and perpendicular lines.
  • Identify points, lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel lines, and perpendicular lines in two-dimensional figures.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • points, lines, line segments, angles (right, acute, and obtuse), parallel lines, and perpendicular lines are defining characteristics of two dimensional shapes.
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.4.27.1: Define points, lines, line segments, rays, right angle, acute angle, obtuse angle, perpendicular lines, and parallel lines.
M.4.27.2: Define two-dimensional figure.
M.4.27.3: Recognize one-dimensional points, lines, and line segments.
M.4.27.4: Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Recall the vocabulary of shapes (labels, sides, faces, vertices, etc.).
  • Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes such as a given number of angles.
  • Build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
  • Sort shapes into categories.
  • Define side, angle, face, closed, and open.
  • Use vocabulary related to shape attributes.
    Examples: sides, angles, face, closed, open.
  • Trace shapes.
  • Sort triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • Explore triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.4.27 Recognize parallel lines, intersecting lines, and angles (right, acute, obtuse).
Mathematics
MA2019 (2019)
Grade: 4
28. Identify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines or the presence or absence of angles of a specified size.

a. Describe right triangles as a category, and identify right triangles.
Unpacked Content
Evidence Of Student Attainment:
Students:
  • Sort two-dimensional figures based on angle sizes or presence of parallel and/or perpendicular lines.

    • Example: Given a group of regular polygons, sort shapes into categories based on angle size as well as presence of parallel lines.
  • Classify and name shapes using more than one characteristic.
  • Identify a right triangle by labeling the right angle.
Teacher Vocabulary:
  • Two-dimensional figure
  • Parallel lines
  • Perpendicular lines
  • Angle
  • Right triangle
Knowledge:
Students know:
  • Two lines are parallel if they never intersect and are an equal distance apart.
  • Two lines are perpendicular if they are at right angles to each other.
  • A right triangle is a triangle that has one right angle.
Skills:
Students are able to:
  • Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of parallel or perpendicular lines.
  • Classify two-dimensional figures based on the presence or absence of angles of a specified size.
  • Identify right triangles.
Understanding:
Students understand that:
  • shapes are categorized based on attributes they possess in common such as angle size, side length, side relationships (parallel and perpendicular).
Diverse Learning Needs:
Essential Skills:
Learning Objectives:
M.4.28.1: Define right angle.
M.4.28.2: Recognize that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals).
M.4.28.3: Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
M.4.28.4: Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.
M.4.28.5: Identify triangles.

Prior Knowledge Skills:
  • Recall the vocabulary of shapes (labels, sides, faces, vertices, etc.).
  • Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes such as a given number of angles.
  • Build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes.
  • Sort shapes into categories.
  • Define side, angle, face, closed, and open.
  • Use vocabulary related to shape attributes.
    Examples: sides, angles, face, closed, open.
  • Trace shapes.
  • Sort triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
  • Explore triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
Alabama Alternate Achievement Standards
AAS Standard:
M.AAS.4.28 Using vocalization, sign language, augmentative communication or assistive technology, describe the defining attributes of two-dimensional shapes (e.g., number of sides, number of angles).
Tags: angle, frog, line, parallel, perpendicular, ray, triangle
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