My name is Gayle Norman, and I am a Reading teacher at Hugh Goodwin Elementary in El Dorado. In this lesson, students have fun as they fill shapes in a variety of ways with colorful pattern blocks. As students fill the same shape more than one way, they discover relationships among the pattern block shapes. This activity reinforces the names and properties of geometric shapes and their relationship to one another.
Students develop spatial sense as they fill the large shape forms with pattern blocks.
In addition, as students discover different ways to fill in the same shape, they explore congruence and equivalence. Older students can go farther and investigate area. 2000 South Central Service Cooperative. Materials contained within this web site may be used freely for educational purposes only.