Geometry and Spatial Sense, Grades 4 to 6 - EduGains

Grade 5 Learning Activity: Movement – Drawing Designs
TIME:
approximately
two 60-minute
periods
168
Grade 5 Learning Activity
Movement: Drawing Designs
OVERVIEW
In this learning activity, students create a picture puzzle with directions containing translations.
The activity provides an opportunity for students to identify and perform translations and to
make predictions; it reinforces the concept of using a grid system to describe the movements
of an object.
BIG IDEAS
This learning activity focuses on the following big idea:
Location and movement: Students investigate using different transformations to describe the
movement of an object.
CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS
This learning activity addresses the following specific expectation.
Students will:
• identify, perform, and describe translations, using a variety of tools (e.g., geoboard, dot
paper, computer program).
This specific expectation contributes to the development of the following overall expectation:
Students will:
• identify and describe the location of an object, using the cardinal directions, and translate
two-dimensional shapes.
ABOUT THE LEARNING ACTIVITY
MATERIALS
• overhead projector
• transparency of Mov5.BLM1: Translations
• clear piece of acetate
• Mov5.BLM2: What Am I? (1 per student)
• sheets of tracing paper (1 per student)
• Mov5.BLM3: Design Instructions (1 per student)
• sheets of grid chart paper or large newsprint (2 per student)
• Mov5.BLM4: Translations in the Home (1 per student)
• markers
• ruler or metre stick (1 per pair of students)