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2D shape – Popsicle Shapes
Grab those craft sticks and build shapes! Identify the shapes and talk about the characteristics of each shape, such as, how many sides and corners/vertices does it have? Can you create your own shapes? This activity will allow junior mathematicians to experience a sensory approach to geometry as well as to sort, and classify simple 2D shapes using their various properties.
2D shape: Shape Hunt
Learning about 2D shapes can be so much fun. It lends itself so well to hands-on activities. Today we are going on a shape hunt throughout the house and you are going to have an absolute blast hunting for hidden shapes! How many circles can you find in your house? Can you find some triangles? And what about squares and rectangles? Run off to look for examples of each shape. Once you find something keep a record on your Shape Hunt handout. See how many examples of each shape you can find!
2D Shapes – Shape Learning Wheel
Our world is literally made up of colours and shapes. As it turns out colours and shapes are a key way for us to describe and categorise our world. Teaching children about colour and shape is a great way to teach them some vocabulary for describing the world around them. This opens up new and exciting avenues for verbal communication. Also, as children learn to identify colours and shapes, they can sort and classify objects around them based on these attributes.
2D shapes: Masking Tape Shapes
Masking tape shapes is a fun way to actively practice 2D shapes with very young children! This game is one of my favourites because it can be easily extended and differentiated to suit pupils of different ages and abilities. The focus here is on four basic shapes. We will focus on the square, the rectangle, the triangle and the circle, however you can easily extend it further to include more shapes if you wish!
2D Shapes: Shape Bingo
Bingo is a game most children love to play. Here junior mathematicians will be rehearsing 2D shape names and properties in a fun and meaningful way by playing Shape Bingo. They should also be able to sort, and classify these simple 2D shapes using their various properties.
3.3.2 Things I should do to keep my body fit and healthy
By the end of the lesson, children can identify ways of keeping their body fit and healthy.
3.4.1 -3.4.4 How do we experience the world around us?
By the end of the lesson, children can name the 5 senses; match each sense to its sense organ; relate the need of senses to understand the world around us.
3.4.5 Different sound in my everyday life (including soft/loud sounds)
By the end of the lesson, children can identify different sounds in their everyday life.
3.4.6 Where does light come from?
By the end of the lesson, children can identify different sources of light and classify these as natural or artificial sources of light.
3.4.7 How can we create optical illusions?
By the end of the lesson, children can understand what an optical illusion is and also explore and create optical illusions.
3.5.1 How do we control our body temperature?
By the end of the lesson, children can relate to everyday situations when we feel hot or cold depending on the environment around us and how our body reacts to these changes in temperature.
3.5.2 – 3.5.4 – What is Electricity?
By the end of the lesson, children can understand that lots of thing around us need energy to work; that one of the main types of energy used around us is electricity; devise ways on how we can save electricity by using appliances around us wisely.
3.5.5 – Building a simple electric circuit
By the end of the lesson, children can understand how to build a simple electric circuit.
3.6.1 – Which materials surround us?
By the end of the lesson, children can identify and describe materials around them as well as their properties.
3.6.2 – Which is the best material?
By the end of the lesson, children can identify purposes for which some common materials are used.
3.6.3 – Designing a gift bag
By the end of the lesson, children will be able to design and put together a gift bag. Children can also research scientists who were responsible for discoveries on uses of material.
3.7.1 – What makes up planet Earth?
By the end of the lessons, children can identify water, air, rocks, soil and life forms as the constituents of our planet.
3.7.2 – Water conservation
By the end of the lessons, children can recognise and discuss the importance of saving water.
3.7.3 – How can we save planet Earth?
By the end of the lessons, children can explain the importance of the 4Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle and repair.
3.7.4 – 3.7.5 – What’s the weather like in Malta?
By the end of the lessons, children can talk about various weather conditions experienced in Malta throughout the year and distinguish between the four seasons with regards to weather conditions.
3.8.1 – What are magnets?
By the end of the lesson, children can demonstrate that like poles of a magnet repel and unlike poles attract.
3.8.2 – 3.8.3 How do different machines work?
By the end of the lesson, children can investigate how simple machines work and give everyday examples they will also find out about scientists who made discoveries related to how things move e.g. Leonardo da Vinci etc.
3.9.1 – What are stars?
By the end of the lesson, children can describe what a star is.
3.9.2 – What is the Sun?
By the end of the lesson, children can identify the Sun as the nearest star to Earth and describe that the Sun is a source of light and heat.
3.9.3 – 3.9.4 – What is the moon?
By the end of the lesson, children can describe that the moon is a rock without air and water and find out about the first moon landing.
3D Shape Scavenger Hunt
This lesson presents an opportunity for junior mathematicians to learn about different 3D shapes, how to identify them, and the attributes or characteristics that go along with each shape. Children will be able to recognise and name simple 3D shapes and to identify and count faces, vertices and edges of simple 3D shapes. Let’s get ready to go on a scavenger hunt around the home to find some real-world examples of these 3D shapes.
3D Shapes: roll, stack or slide?
Through a hands on activity, the children will be able to identify which 3D Shapes roll, stack and/or slide.
4.4.1 – Amazing Animals – Animal Senses
By the end of the lesson, children can understand that humans and other animals have senses which include sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell. These senses help us gather information about the world around us.
4.4.2 – How is sound produced?
By the end of the lesson, children can understand that vibrations make sound. Sounds travel though air they reach our ears and we hear sound.
4.4.3 – Making sounds
By the end of the lesson, children will understand that sound can be made in various ways (by blowing, hitting, plucking).
4.4.4 – 4.4.5 (2) Do all animals sleep at night?
By the end of the lesson, children can understand day and night patterns and relate them to the behaviour of nocturnal animals.
4.4.4 -4.4.5 (1) Where does light come from?
By the end of the lesson, children can understand what a source of light is and that some objects reflect light better than others.
4.4.6 – How are shadows formed?
By the end of the lesson, children can understand that when an object blocks light, a shadow is formed; and that shadows get bigger when an object is close to the light source and get smaller when an object is far away from the light source.
4.5.1 – 4.5.3 – What is Energy? – Food Chain –
By the end of the lesson, children can understand that the sun is the primary source of energy and that energy is transferred from plants or animals to other animals in a food chain. Children can draw a food chain to demonstrate their understanding.
4.5.4 – (Electricity) Conductors and Insulators
By the end of the lesson, children can understand which materials are conductors of electricity and which are insulators and give everyday examples.
4.6.1 – What is a mixture and what is a solution?
By the end of the lesson, children can demonstrate how different materials can be mixed together to form mixtures.
4.6.2 – What is a chemical reaction?
By the end of the lesson, children can observe different chemical reactions, namely rusting and explain what is meant by chemical reactions.
4.6.3 – Reversible and irreversible changes.
By the end of the lesson, children can describe different changes in materials when they are brought together and to be able to recognise them as reversible or irreversible changes.
4.6.4 – Materials – Is it Natural or Man-made?
By the end of the lesson, children can classify materials as natural or man-made and make connections to materials in everyday life.
4.7.1 – 4.7.2 – What’s the weather today?
By the end of the lesson, children can observe and record changes in the weather and interpret basic weather charts and the symbols used.
4.7.3 – 4.7.4 – Plants around us
By the end of the lesson, children can identify and classify some common plants in the local environment.
4.8.1 – 4.8.2 – Forces around us
By the end of the lesson, children can explain what force is and give examples of different types of forces. They can demonstrate that friction is a force that opposes the movement of one surface over another.
4.8.3 – 4.8.4 – Friction on different surfaces
By the end of the lesson, children can explain this force produces heat and slows down a moving object. Children can give examples of when friction is useful and when it is not.
4.9.1 – 4.9.2 – Our Solar System
By the end of the lesson, children can understand that our solar system is made up of eight planets orbiting the sun and includes dwarf planets, asteroids and other matter.
4.9.3 – Design your own alien
By the end of the lesson, children can name the planets in our solar system and draw similarities and differences between the Sun, the Moon and the Earth. Adapted from https://www.unawe.org/activity/eu-unawe1304/
4.9.4 – Galileo and his telescope
By the end of the lesson, children can conduct research about scientists who made discoveries about space.
Adding 2-digit Numbers
This activity provides junior mathematicians with strategies for adding any two-digit numbers. It encourages students to add by place value, first adding together the tens and then adding together the ones using straws. It also offers students the option of adding in groups of ten.
Addition – Addition With Regrouping
This lesson provides junior mathematicians with an opportunity to use column addition with regrouping up to four-digit numbers, through a hands on approach, using concrete materials.
Addition: Adding Multiples of 10 and Adjusting
This lesson provides junior mathematicians with an opportunity to add any number by adding a multiple of 10 and then adjusting accordingly, using