Unit 3:  2D Geometry

Time Frame:  15 - 18 Days

 

 

Math > Grade 3 > Unit 3

 

Unit Description

Students explore shape and area through tetrominoes-arrangements of four squares with full sides touching.  They variously use interlocking cubes, paper cutouts, and the computer as they try to cover rectangles with their tetrominoes.  In the process, they investigate patterns, congruence, ideas about area, perimeter, and three geometric motions-slides, flips (reflections), and turns (rotations).  In the second half of the unit, students explore area and congruence further, using square and triangle pieces to build shapes of a given area and perimeter.

 

Enduring Understandings

·         Shapes that are alike remain alike.

·         There are relationships among shapes

·         I can find shapes in the real world.

·         I can measure shapes.

 

Essential Questions

·     How can I change a shape and not make it different?

·     How can different shapes be alike?

·     Why is it necessary to identify shapes around me?

·     Why is it important for me to measure shapes?

·     How can measuring shapes help me?

GLEs: 8, 11, 16, 19, 22, 23, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 47

Students will know…

·         Congruent

·         Flip ( reflection)

·         Slide (translate)

·         Turn (rotate)

·         Area

·         Geometric figures

·         Symmetry

·         Tetromino

·         Perimeter

·         Square unit

·         Dimension

Students will be able to…

·         Determine if a shape is congruent.

·         Slide, flip, and turn shapes to determine if a shape is congruent.

·         Find the area of a given geometric figure.

·         Write descriptions of geometric figures.

·         Determine relationships among shapes.

·         Use patterns to find area.

·         Determine if a shape has symmetry.

·         Find the perimeter.

·         Show how 2 figures can have the same area, but different perimeters.

 

Assessments

·       Performance Task

·       Performance Task – Rubric

·       Assessment Task – 13

·       Assessment Task – 14

·       Assessment Task – 15

·       Assessment Task – 16

 

 

·       EDC Sample Assessment