Answer to Question #192269 in Geometry for Jaco Visagie

Question

Develop a Grade 6 lesson plan on the topic: Daily life Transformation, which would be based on the following aspects.1.Topic 2.Grade 3.Teachers and learners activities 4.Assessment activities  5.Daily Life examples that YOU can use in a symmetry and transformation lesson? 6.Resources needed to be able to present such a lesson.  7.A lesson make provision for an opportunity where learners can explore transformations in daily life. 8.How can learners still learn about transformation even in the absence of technology (think about the South African school context)?  

Answer 1

LESSON PLAN

Topic: Daily Life Transformation

Subject: Geometry

Author: Brian

Grade Level: Six

Time duration: 90 minutes

Objective: Students should be able to identify symmetrical figures, draw lines of

symmetry and explain whether or not a figure has symmetry.

Activities: The teacher to introduce the terms and different types

of transformations. Students to share the learnt terms and types of

transformations with a partner. Students to draw patterns with

rotational symmetry under the teacher's guide.

Assessment: Observe participation of students and engagement with peers in

group work. Students to present their finished booklet of

transformations and symmetry to class.

Daily life example: Butterfly wings match. (They have symmetry because they can

be split into two mirror image halves. During their movement,

transformations occur.)

Materials: Slides for lesson, sketch/brainstorming, pattern blocks, projector, graph

paper, construction paper, and scissors.

Extra credit: Learners can explore transformation in daily life life for example by

looking at the case of a plane. A plane at take off is the same size and

shape as a plane on the run way orb when landing. It is just translation

as the plane is at different angles.

Learners can learn about transformations in the absence of technology

by taking into consideration real world and nature transformations

examples such as those exhibited by a butterfly