Lesson 4: Fish and Landscape (Form)
The instructor:
- Draws on a whiteboard or big piece of paper a large version of A.
- Adds the back fin as a right triangle asks children to tell its shape.
- Repeats for the second back fin as an obtuse triangle.
- Repeats for the tail fin as an acute triangle.
- Repeats for the anal fin as a right triangle.
- Repeats for the ventral fin as an acute triangle.
- Repeats for the breast fin as an obtuse triangle.
- Repeats for the head as an acute triangle.
The instructor next:
- Asks children to study the landscape image.
- Tells children the picture is composed entirely of triangles.
- Asks children to point out as many different triangles as possible.
- Asks children to point to an acute triangle, an obtuse triangle, a right triangle.
- Asks children to name the shape of the lake, the distant mountain, the land on the right, the land on the left, and the trees on the left.