Meaningful Moments: Draw Your Purple People Eater

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• creativity

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 1 Maths:

• Make, compare and classify familiar shapes; recognise familiar shapes and objects in the environment, identifying the similarities and differences between them (AC9M1SP01)

Year 2 Maths:

• Recognise, compare and classify shapes, referencing the number of sides and using spatial terms such as “opposite”, “parallel”, “curved” and “straight” (AC9M2SP01)

Relevant parts of Year 1 Mathematics achievement standards: Students make, compare and classify shapes and objects using obvious features. 

Relevant parts of Year 2 Mathematics achievement standards: Students compare and classify shapes, describing features using formal spatial terms. 

NSW Syllabus outcomes: MA2-1WM

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Numeracy

• Drawing materials

This is an original Cool+ lesson.

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - the teacher needs to explain the task and read out the drawing prompts.

We don’t have any related professional courses for this lesson at the moment, but we do have heaps of other Cool professional learning here.