Disciplinary Unit: Geometry

Lesson 5

I. General Information:
Grade Level: 2
Discipline: Mathematics
Unit Topic: Geometry
Time Frame: 1 hour
Text: The Greedy Triangle
Other Materials: Anglegs, iPad, Seesaw

II. Essential Understanding/Questions:

Students will be able to ask questions, answer questions (who, what, where,
when, why) and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
o Understand character, plot, and setting
o Analyze text information & illustrations to understand deeper
meaning of the story.
Use of appropriate vocabulary is necessary.

Questions:
Where is the passage did you find that key detail?
How do you know that is a key detail?
What clues do illustrations in the story provide to help you understand the
setting in the story?
What clues do the illustration in the story provide to help you understand the
characters in the story?
How do I reason with shapes and their attributes?

III. Standards/Indicators

RL 2.1 Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when , why and
how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.
RL 2. 7 Use information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or
digital text to demonstrate understanding of its character, setting, or plot.
2.G.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given
number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles,
quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
W.2.2 - Write informative/explanatory texts in which they introduce a topic, use
facts and definitions to develop points, and provide a concluding statement or
section.

IV. Lesson Objectives

Students will be able to identify and describe shapes using attributes.
Students will be able to display understanding on iPad using their Seesaw
account.

V. Evaluation/Assessment:
Assessment of Objectives
Students will be creating shapes from the text using Anglegs. Using
their IPad to take pictures of their work. Then in the notes section on Seesaw they
will be writing about the shapes they chose.

VI. Procedures:
Introduction
Which One doesnt Belong (WCPS Math Portal)
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B5W64FecuRP3VHdzTmUyY2gtdkE
Pick a few examples to start the lesson

Teaching/Activities
Skim through The Greedy Triangle to review vocabulary and
shapes. Students will pick out shapes that they will be using in this
activity for the day.
Students turn and talk about what shapes they are picking and why.
Students will use Anglegs to create 3 shapes from the book.
Once students have created their different representations of their
choice of 3 shapes from the book, students will take pictures of their
shapes with their IPad using Seesaw.
Once the picture is taken, students can add notes to their pictures. In
this section students will name each shape and identify the shapes
attributes.
 Closure

Students will share their work with partners. Students will take turns sharing
their understanding of the shapes that they picked and designed using
Anglegs.

Resources:

Burns, M., & Silveria, G. (2014). The Greedy Triangle. United States: Paw Prints.

Student Driven Digital Portoflios. (n.d.). Retrieved April 25, 2017, from
http://web.seesaw.me/

Washington County Public Schools Employee Portal (n.d.). Retrieved April 25,
2017, from http://wcpsmd.com/faculty-staff