Scavenger Hunt: Teacher Notes

Technological Literacy — Students begins to recognize the importance and significance of shapes in our environment.
Personal and Social Values and Skills — Students have to communicate effectively with each other when working on the finding the objects. They have to evaluate ideas together and come up with the best responses.

Students will realize that there are solids everywhere in the environment, many of them we depend on.
Students will identify and name examples of sphere, cube, cone, cylinder, rectangular solid, and pyramid from the environment

Procedure:

Student's Role:

Students get into pairs or a group of four. They take one of the "Scavenger Hunt" worksheets and take a minute to look at all of them. As a group they move about the classroom looking for objects to match the solids. They can look out a window or even picture an object not in the room that would fit one of the solids. They will record the solid by drawing it on the paper and naming it. They will have to find more than one example of each. Students also do a group assessment to evaluate how they well they worked together.

Teacher's Role:

Teacher assesses the sheet for completeness and if they recorded the correct object for each solid. Teacher circulates and records anecdotal records on student behaviour when they are working in groups.
Adaptation(s)/Extension(s):

Could be made into a shape and solid scavenger hunt.
Scavenger hunt can be done throughout the whole school or students could take it home and look for solids in their homes and areas around their homes.

Resources:

Addison-Wesley (1997) Quest 2000: Exploring Mathematics Series, Grade Two and Three. Canada: Addison-Wesley Publishers Limited.
Assessment/Evaluation:

Assess worksheets for completeness and if the correct objects where recorded for the solid that was to be found.
Teacher records anecdotal records on student behaviour when they are working in groups.
Students do a group-assessment to evaluate how they worked as a group.

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