These are the lesson plans for Unit 12 of 16 in the 5th Grade Math Curriculum: 127 lessons in teaching order, week by week, each with a lesson plan and an exit ticket.
Also for this unit: exit tickets, pre-check, unit review and test. See the whole year
Everything each lesson plan points to, with links. Sheet numbers count worksheets: a color pack prints each sheet again in black and white.
★ Taught in 5th grade in some states.
Eight lesson plans, one for each lesson of a 5th grade unit on classifying shapes and angles, in teaching order, after an overview page that lays the unit out day by day: a pre-check, the eight lessons, a review and the unit test. Each plan fits on one page. It gives the goal, what to get ready, the words to use, the lesson in five steps with the words to say, questions to ask, common mistakes and what to do about them, and the Animal Math worksheets, maker and quizzes for the lesson.
Print the unit, or just the day's page, and teach from it. Each lesson takes about 45 minutes: a 5 minute warm up, 10 minutes of teaching, 10 minutes together, 15 minutes of practice and an exit ticket at the end. Keep shape cards, dot paper and index cards (for checking right angles) out all unit, and mark equal sides, parallel sides and right angles every time. The plans use the definition of a trapezoid the worksheets use, at least one pair of parallel sides, and say that some books use exactly one. Lessons 12.6 to 12.8 are taught in 5th grade in some states only: measuring and sorting angles (Oklahoma and Virginia), the angles of a triangle (Virginia) and circles (Indiana); skip the ones your class does not learn. The exit tickets, pre-check, review and unit test are separate packs, made for these lessons, and the plans use other shapes, angles and lengths than they do.
Teaching at home? Use the warm up and the "Try it together" step as a short lesson, and the "Words to use" as the way to talk about it. Hunt for shapes around the house and name them every way you can, fold paper squares and rectangles, tear the corners off a paper triangle, and measure across lids and plates. The mistakes to watch for are the ones most children make.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Lesson plans for every lesson of a unit on classifying shapes and angles, from regular polygons and triangles to the quadrilateral hierarchy. Each one-page plan gives a lesson in five steps, common mistakes and the worksheets to use, after a unit overview.
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