How do shapes help us solve problems in daily life?
Critical Thinking: Students will analyze how various shapes contribute to solving problems and fulfilling specific functions in daily life.
Responsibility: Encourage students to take initiative in using their knowledge of shapes to make decisions and solve problems.
Collaboration: Foster teamwork as students work together to solve shape-related challenges, leveraging each other's insights and perspectives.
In what ways do different shapes fit together?
How can recognizing shapes help us organize or plan spaces?
How do shapes affect the stability and function of objects we use?
Students will explore and demonstrate how shapes can fit together to solve puzzles or create designs.
Students will apply their understanding of shapes to organize objects or plan a simple layout.
Students will investigate how the shape of an object affects its stability and purpose.
K.G.B.4 - Analyze and compare two- and three-dimensional shapes, in different sizes and orientations, using informal language to describe their similarities, differences, parts (e.g., number of sides and vertices/"corners") and other attributes (e.g., having sides of equal length).
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