Today the first graders will be using Investigations Shapes Software to make quilt squares. Here's a description from Investigations math curriculum on the activity, "In first grade, students continue to use Shapes to think about attributes of the pattern block shapes and relationships among them....They use motions such as flips and turns to create designs with pattern blocks, and to fill provided outlines in as many different ways as possible. They begin to think about the idea of a unit as they design quilt squares using squares and triangles, which are repeated to create a quilt pattern."
The students will come to class with their "paper quilt square" and replicate it on the computer. I will show them how to:
The students will come to class with their "paper quilt square" and replicate it on the computer. I will show them how to:
- add shapes to build their quilt square
- vertically and horizontally flip their shape
- rotate their shape clockwise and counterclockwise
- erase their shape
- copy their shape
- color their shape