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**Lessons Learned!**

**LESSON 4 **

** __Grade Level:__ ** 3rd Grade Math

__**Unit:**__ Shapes & Angles

__**Lesson Objectives:**__  __**Time Required To Complete This Lesson:**__ One week
 * Students will learn about the properties of geometric shapes, polygons and solid figures using many different methods
 * Students will develop an awareness of spatial sense connecting geometry to situations in their everyday environment
 * Students will learn about angles and their importance to many geometric concepts.
 * Students will demonstrate their knowledge using hands on techniques and multiple intelligences
 * Students will learn related vocabulary words that they will be able to put into context and spell correctly

** __Title Of Lesson:__ ** Dolphins Get Into Shape!

**__Description Of Lesson:__** Students will learn all shapes, figures, and angles and be able to apply these skills to their environment to help develop and enhance spatial sense. We will be doing this by a variety of stimulating methods! We will read a fantastic book titled "Sir Cumference and the First Round Table  ," use online flashcards to help remember our shapes and test ourselves, do a kinesthetic activity, take a field trip to view the different shapes and angles in our environment, make shapes out of popsickle sticks, and make cartoon comic strips about shapes using very cool online templates! 

__**In-class Assignment:**__  __**Homework Assignment:**__ <span style="color: #fb680e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> __**Resources/materials Needed:**__ <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> ** __The Technology We Used:__ ** We are using an online flashcard application called //The Flashcard Machine//, an audio mp3 of The Square Dance, and online cartoon strip creation application from www.toondoo.com. __The Technology We Used In This Lesson Changes The Teaching/Learning In This Way:__ ** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">By using technology in this lesson, students are able to use different senses and multiple intelligences to learn the basic foundations of geometry which has historically been a rather mundane "textbook" topic to teach and learn. By using the online interactive flashcards, students were able to review the material at their own pace and concentrate on the shapes and angles that each individual may have problems remembering. This could not have been done with traditional flash cards. It is also much more fun for the students. Using the online comic strips to write a brief story about the subject allows students to use writing, reading comprehension, and grammar skills to math! They also get to work as cooperative teams to create something from a choice of many different online templates without any worry about making a mistake. This project would have been much more costly, much more individualized, and a lot less fun if it weren't for the use of technology!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">Read and discuss the book, //Sir Cumference and the First Round Table// and point out and discuss the different shapes that the table has in the book.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> Use online, interactive video flashcards from flashcardmachine.com so students can recognize and study the shapes and terminology
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> Perform //The Square Dance//, a kinesthetic activity designed to use the body to make shapes and angles.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> Making shapes and angles from popsicle sticks
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Shapes and angles in architecture, signs, and vehicles : A field trip
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Make shape cartoons at toondoo.com
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Find ten examples of each shape around your home. Mark them down on the worksheet.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;"> The book //Sir Cumference and the First Round Table//
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%; text-align: left;">//The Square Dance// mp3 and guide
 * Shape worksheets
 * Popsicle stick
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Applicable websites: www.toondoo.com (comic strips) & www.flashcardmachine.com (interactive video flash cards)

When you want to know the answer, click "FLIP CARD". The next card and previous card buttons are at the top right. **
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">[[image:flashcards.png width="96" height="96" link="@http://www.flashcardmachine.com/machine/?read_only=712090&p=3xn1"]]Click here for your interactive, study flashcards! All you have to do is click the "START STUDY" button.

** Click here ** **<span class="wiki_link" style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 120%;">for your cartoon-making exercise. You're going to enjoy this one! **