Unit Plan…

Learning Area: Maths Year Level: R/1 (Early Years Band)

Strands: Spatial sense & geometric reasoning Proposed Duration: 3 weeks

Key Ideas: Children explore their social and natural environments, identifying and mathematically
describing key features of shapes and objects around them. In the process they learn more about
themselves and their integral relationship with the environments

Standard Outcome: 1.12 – uses key spacial features to describe and represent 2D and 3D shapes from
personal and community activities
1.13 – uses simple transformations to orientate and move familiar objects and themselves when they
are constructing, arranging and locating
Essential Learnings: Key Competencies:
 Identity – a sense of personal and group identity  KC1 – using information
 Thinking – a sense of creativity, wisdom and enterprise  KC2 – communicating ideas
 Interdependence – a sense of being connected with others  KC3 – planning & organising
and their world  KC4 – working in teams
 Futures – a sense of optimism about their ability to shape  KC5 – using maths
their futures  KC6 – solving problems
 Communication – a sense of the power and potential of  KC7 - using technology
literacy, numeracy and ICT
Higher Order Thinking Tool – 6 Thinking Hats
 White hat thinking identifies the facts and details of a topic
 Black hat thinking examines problems associated with a topic
 Yellow hat thinking focuses on the positive aspects of a topic
 Red hat thinking looks at a topic from the view point of emotions and feelings
 Green hat thinking requires creativeness, imagination and lateral thinking about a topic
 Blue hat thinking focuses on reflection, metacognition and the need to understand the big picture

Key Questions:
What does a 2D shape look like? What does a 3D shape look like? How are 2D and 3D shapes
different? Where can I find these shapes in my life? At home? At school? At the supermarket?

Tasks for Enquiry:

2 Dimensional shapes
Teach shape song
Explain the features of 2D shapes. Have students recognise, name and draw these shapes. Trace from
shapes in the maths room
Receptions - circle, square, triangle, rectangle. Year 1’s - diamond, oval, pentagon, octagon, hexagon

Have students find shapes in the classroom, draw/trace and label them
Play 2D shape concentration

Have students make/build shapes using popsticks and other materials. Have students fill in large shape
with smaller shapes (ie large triangle, small triangle)
Play 2D shapes scavenge
Go on a shape walk of the school yard, have the students find shapes, photograph/draw them. Can be
discussed in the school yard
Play 2D shape bingo

3 Dimensional shapes
Explain the features of 3D shapes. Have students recognise, and name these shapes.
Cube, sphere, cone, cylinder, pyramid
Compare 2D and 3D shapes

Make 3D shapes from templates. Explain faces of 3D shapes, ie show how cube is made of 6 squares
Play 3D shape concentration

Students find 3D shapes in the classroom and trace each face

Play 3D shape scavenge

Allow the students to experiment with 3D shapes and build things with them, ie houses. Discuss what
shapes make the object they made

Go on a shape walk of the school yard?? Look at play equipment and see 3D shapes, take photos
Play 3D shape bingo

Learning Outcomes:
Students can identify 2D shapes
Students can identify 3D shapes
Students recognise differences of 2D and 3D shapes
Students can make 2D and 3D shapes

Equipment/Resources:
Examples of 2D shapes listed above – to be used when explaining shapes and also for shape scavenge
Examples of 3D shapes listed above – to be used when explaining shapes and also for shape scavenge
Pop sticks, matchsticks, glue, connecting sets (sticks and pins to make shapes)
Geometry concentration – 2D and 3D. 5 sets
Bingo – 2D and 3D
Template for large/ small shapes – Triangle, Square, Rectangle, Octagon, Hexagon, Diamond, Pentagon
Worksheets for shape walk
Templates to make 3D shapes

Formative Assessment Summative Assessment Student Self Assessment

Actively participates in class
discussions and activities that build
knowledge of shapes and their
features
Actively participates in shape walks
Describes features of
both 2D & 3D shapes
Identifies and names 2D &
3D shapes in the
classroom and school yard

All book work throughout the unit