Skogsbackeskolan
Karlstad
Age:
8-9
Goals:
To know how you can fold a rectangular piece of paper and cut off a piece
to get a square. How to fold this square into a triangle.
Materials:
White squared papers
A pair of scissors
Crayons
Vocabulary:
Rectangle, square and triangle.
Planning:
Start with a rectangular piece of paper.
Show the children how you can fold down one corner over the paper and
cut off the redundant part and then there is a square.
Fold the square into a triangle.
Fold down the triangles top towards you.
Fold up the lower corners away from you
Turn the paper around and draw a cats face on it.
Evaluation:
The children liked making these cats. When they managed to make a cat
some of them tried to fold the corners in other ways and then they got
a dog. Now they are sure of the forms of triangles, squares and rectangles
and how you can make them.
