Geometric Lesson Plan

TITLE: Geometric Shapes

GRADE LEVEL/SUBJECT: Pre-K to 2

OVERVIEW: Orienteering is a sport popular in Australia and Sweden

and is used as a training activity in the service. It teaches the

participants how to read and use a map. The activity can be

adjusted according to grade level by the difficulty of the course

and even the use of a compass. Excellent activity for field trips.

I used it as a culminating activity to an outdoor unit.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this activity is to have students properly understand each geometric shape.

OBJECTIVES: Students will be able to:

1. Use a map to locate six specific landmarks in a given area.

2. Individually, and as a group, write a list of how maps and

landmarks can help us.

3. Write an explanation of how to get from point A to point B

to someone unfamiliar to the area.

RESOURCES/MATERIALS: A selected course that has been mapped and

specific landmarks color coded with crayons or small self-stick

circles. Courses may be either familiar or unfamiliar to students

depending on the level of difficulty needed to meet student needs.

A few possible suggestions may be: the playground, a city park, a

wooded area near the school, or a specific rural area the class

make take a bus to for a field trip.

ACTIVITIES AND PROCEDURES:

1. Maps are distributed in classroom and a discussion follows

concerning north, south, east, and west and pictures of landmarks.

If a compass is used, prior discussion of its use...