Lesson Plan
Shape Detectives: What's in the Bag?
What's in the bag? This fun math lesson involves using defining attributes as clues to draw conclusions. Young learners will have a great time making guesses about different objects and creating their own shape riddles.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify and describe various shapes using defining attributes.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Gather students in a circle and hold up the shape bag.
- Explain that this is a mystery shape bag that will be passed around. Students have to try to figure out what’s inside without peeking.
- Demonstrate the procedure by closing your eyes, manipulating the bag with your fingers, thinking aloud about what you feel inside.
- Pass the bag around the circle and ask each student to share one observation about what is felt.
- Explain that our observations about what we feel in the bag are our first clues regarding what is inside. Add that more clues will follow as we open the bag and experiment with the shapes.