Lesson Plan
Characteristics of Polygons
Bring on the polygons! Your students will build their understanding of polygons and sort shapes into categories based on their attributes in this lesson.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to categorize polygons by attributes.
Introduction
(3 minutes)- Tell students that today they are going to be exploring shapes and their attributes. Explain that attributes are characteristics or features of something.
- Give examples for attributes using people or items that the students can all see. Say, "Some of the attributes I could use to describe myself are that I’m tall and have dark colored eyes." or "The letter V on our handwriting poster has two straight lines and is an open shape."
- Ask students to turn to a partner and describe the attributes of an object in the classroom.
- Call on a few students to share what their partner said.
Beginning:
- Encourage students to use their home language (L1) or English to talk with a partner.
- Allow students to utilize a bilingual dictionary to look up the definition of attributes.
Intermediate: Provide a sentence frame to support student sharing, such as "The attributes of the ________ are ________."