Georgia 1.GSR.4.1
The Standard
Identify common two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures, sort and classify them by their attributes and build and draw shapes that possess defining attributes.
Georgia's K-12 Mathematics Standards · Compose shapes, analyze the attributes of shapes, and relate their parts to the whole.
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students name flat shapes and solid figures, then describe their features. They sort them by sides, vertices, faces, edges, or curved surfaces and make shapes that fit given clues.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Students correctly name and sort shapes even when the size, color, or direction changes. They describe defining features and make a shape that matches given clues.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think a turned square becomes a diamond, or that every rectangle must be long. They may sort by color or size instead of sides, vertices, faces, or curved surfaces.
How to Assess It
- Give students pictures of a triangle, square, rectangle, circle, cube, cylinder, and sphere. Ask them to label each, sort them into flat shapes and solid figures, then draw a shape with four straight sides.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Students use craft sticks and clay to build triangles and quadrilaterals, then count and label each shape’s sides and vertices.
Ask, “How are a square and rectangle alike and different?” and have students support each answer with a shape feature.
Play Shape Riddle Bingo using clues such as, “I have three straight sides,” or, “I have one curved surface and two flat faces.”
Take a classroom shape hunt, recording objects shaped like cubes, cylinders, spheres, rectangles, circles, and triangles.
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