Ship Shapes
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Name: Katlyn Birkes
Title: Ship Shapes
Author: Stella Blackstone
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: This book lets children see how everyday shapes can be spotted out in sea. The children sail through this book recognizing different shapes which include triangles, squares, rectangles, circles, etc. This book is a jump start in allowing children to connect their daily lives to shapes.
Connection: This book can found in the lesson called, "Shapes All Around Us."For this geometry unit I would use this book as a starting point for children to recognize shapes in their environment. The students will be able to read along as the book describes different shapes. This will allow the students to see how each shape is spelled and what they look like in the realworld. This book could help kick start the students prior knowledge about different objects they have encountered and how the objects relate to shapes.
Title: Ship Shapes
Author: Stella Blackstone
Grade: Kindergarten
Description: This book lets children see how everyday shapes can be spotted out in sea. The children sail through this book recognizing different shapes which include triangles, squares, rectangles, circles, etc. This book is a jump start in allowing children to connect their daily lives to shapes.
Connection: This book can found in the lesson called, "Shapes All Around Us."For this geometry unit I would use this book as a starting point for children to recognize shapes in their environment. The students will be able to read along as the book describes different shapes. This will allow the students to see how each shape is spelled and what they look like in the realworld. This book could help kick start the students prior knowledge about different objects they have encountered and how the objects relate to shapes.
All Sorts of Shapes
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Name: Sydney Kennedy
Title: All Sorts of Shapes
Author: Hannah Reidy
Grade: 1st
Description: This book helps children understand that shapes are incorporated into many
different everyday objects. It uses pictures and descriptive words to illustrate what shapes look like and where they can be found in different objects like foods, toys, vehicles, etc. The shapes that are included in the book are triangles, circles, squares, cubes, cylinders, and many others. It is a great way to help students recognize shapes in their daily lives and for them to start learning the correct names for these shapes.
Connection: This book could be used with a first grade Geometry lesson like Investigating Triangles or The Shape of Things because it is a great way to introduce the names and types of shapes to students before they begin using them in a lesson. It also allows students to recognize words that can be used to describe what shapes look like, for example the book describes a wheel and a pizza as being round and flat. This helps students make the connection that circles are round and flat. The descriptive words are also good for students because it helps them begin to understand what words are good for describing particular shapes.
Title: All Sorts of Shapes
Author: Hannah Reidy
Grade: 1st
Description: This book helps children understand that shapes are incorporated into many
different everyday objects. It uses pictures and descriptive words to illustrate what shapes look like and where they can be found in different objects like foods, toys, vehicles, etc. The shapes that are included in the book are triangles, circles, squares, cubes, cylinders, and many others. It is a great way to help students recognize shapes in their daily lives and for them to start learning the correct names for these shapes.
Connection: This book could be used with a first grade Geometry lesson like Investigating Triangles or The Shape of Things because it is a great way to introduce the names and types of shapes to students before they begin using them in a lesson. It also allows students to recognize words that can be used to describe what shapes look like, for example the book describes a wheel and a pizza as being round and flat. This helps students make the connection that circles are round and flat. The descriptive words are also good for students because it helps them begin to understand what words are good for describing particular shapes.
If You Were a Quadrilateral
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Name: Kaylyn Waki
Title: If You Were a Quadrilateral
Author: Molly Blaisdell
Grade: 2nd-3rd
Description: This book describes different objects you could be if you were a quadrilateral. The author uses examples such as a checkerboard, a kite, and a yoga mat. The words are accompanied by imaginative illustration that helps students link what they know about common objects to their old and new understanding of quadrilaterals.
Connection: This book could be used as an introduction to the lesson "2D Shape Open Sort." This book would introduce students to shape categorization based on attributes. It allows them to warm up their minds to understanding that shapes with similar attributes are often part of a larger category. This book could also be used to introduce a project where students find different objects of different shapes in one category that they come across in everyday life.
Title: If You Were a Quadrilateral
Author: Molly Blaisdell
Grade: 2nd-3rd
Description: This book describes different objects you could be if you were a quadrilateral. The author uses examples such as a checkerboard, a kite, and a yoga mat. The words are accompanied by imaginative illustration that helps students link what they know about common objects to their old and new understanding of quadrilaterals.
Connection: This book could be used as an introduction to the lesson "2D Shape Open Sort." This book would introduce students to shape categorization based on attributes. It allows them to warm up their minds to understanding that shapes with similar attributes are often part of a larger category. This book could also be used to introduce a project where students find different objects of different shapes in one category that they come across in everyday life.
The Greedy Triangle
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Name: Garrett Sheskey
Title: The Greedy Triangle
Author: Marilyn Burns
Grade: Third/ Fourth Grade
Description: The Greedy Triangle is a great addition to a lesson on angles and/ or triangles. The main character travels through identity crisis after identity crisis, trying the lifestyle of various shapes. Eventually, the Greedy Triangle realizes the importance of his angles and finds himself in everything, which is more than the other shapes can say.
Connection: This book can be seen in the fourth grade lesson titled “This is a Right Angle, Right?” The book is used to bring the class to a calmer state after students take an “angle field trip” throughout the school. With the use of angles and intriguing story line, students should have no trouble listening intently and connecting to afterwards.
Questions that can be asked include:
“What object in life with an angle, do you consider to be the most important?”
“Is a triangle truly the most important shape?”
“How does an angle impact your life specifically?”
Title: The Greedy Triangle
Author: Marilyn Burns
Grade: Third/ Fourth Grade
Description: The Greedy Triangle is a great addition to a lesson on angles and/ or triangles. The main character travels through identity crisis after identity crisis, trying the lifestyle of various shapes. Eventually, the Greedy Triangle realizes the importance of his angles and finds himself in everything, which is more than the other shapes can say.
Connection: This book can be seen in the fourth grade lesson titled “This is a Right Angle, Right?” The book is used to bring the class to a calmer state after students take an “angle field trip” throughout the school. With the use of angles and intriguing story line, students should have no trouble listening intently and connecting to afterwards.
Questions that can be asked include:
“What object in life with an angle, do you consider to be the most important?”
“Is a triangle truly the most important shape?”
“How does an angle impact your life specifically?”
Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
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Name: Kristin Jackowick
Title: Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
Author: Cindy Neuschwander
Grade: 4th-7th
Description: Sir Cumference and Sir Vertex are on a quest to find Edgecaliber, King Arthur's hidden sword. They have a clue about where the sword is hidden. While trying to understand the clue they talk to Geo and Sym of Metry that help them to understand what figure the clue is describing. They follow the clue throughout the castle, noticing all the possible locations based on the clue. They eventually find the sword using both geometry and measurement.
Connection: This book would be great to use in grade 4-7 to discuss two and three dimensional figures and to construct three dimensional figures using paper. Part of the clue is Euler's Law which could be introduced through the book and then tested in class. There is a lot of geometry vocabulary; there could be a whole lesson on listening and listing all the math words used throughout the book. Students could also create a list of defining attributes of geometric figures based on the text.
Title: Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
Author: Cindy Neuschwander
Grade: 4th-7th
Description: Sir Cumference and Sir Vertex are on a quest to find Edgecaliber, King Arthur's hidden sword. They have a clue about where the sword is hidden. While trying to understand the clue they talk to Geo and Sym of Metry that help them to understand what figure the clue is describing. They follow the clue throughout the castle, noticing all the possible locations based on the clue. They eventually find the sword using both geometry and measurement.
Connection: This book would be great to use in grade 4-7 to discuss two and three dimensional figures and to construct three dimensional figures using paper. Part of the clue is Euler's Law which could be introduced through the book and then tested in class. There is a lot of geometry vocabulary; there could be a whole lesson on listening and listing all the math words used throughout the book. Students could also create a list of defining attributes of geometric figures based on the text.