Geometry and Spatial Sense, Grades 4 to 6 - EduGains

Grade 6 Learning Activity
Location: Name My Shapes
OVERVIEW
In this learning activity, students create a shape puzzle, using a coordinate grid, and describe
precise locations, using ordered pairs.
BIG IDEAS
This learning activity focuses on the following big idea:
Location and movement: Students investigate using a coordinate grid system to describe the
position of an object.
CURRICULUM EXPECTATIONS
This learning activity addresses the following specific expectation.
Students will:
• explain how a coordinate system represents location, and plot points in the first quadrant of
a Cartesian coordinate plane.
This specific expectation contributes to the development of the following overall expectation.
Students will:
• describe location in the first quadrant of a coordinate system, and rotate twodimensional
shapes.
ABOUT THE LEARNING ACTIVITY
MATERIALS
• overhead transparency of Loc6.BLM1: Blank 10 × 10 Grid
• overhead projector
• Loc6.BLM1: Blank 10 × 10 Grid (1 per student)
• Loc6.BLM2: Name My Shapes Instructions (1 per student)
• Loc6.BLM3: Name My Shapes (2 per student)
• sheets of chart paper or large newsprint (1 per pair of students)
• markers (1 per pair of students)
• Loc6.BLM4: Introduction to Name My Shapes (1 per student)
TIME:
approximately
60 minutes
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Grade 6 Learning Activity: Location – Name My Shapes