Cluster 6: Distinguishing and Composing Shapes

In this cluster, students focus on geometric concepts of shapes and their defining attributes. Students use their understanding of defining attributes to identify, name, build, and draw triangles, rectangles, squares, trapezoids, hexagons and circles. Students combine rectangles, squares, trapezoids, triangles, and half-circles to create new composite shapes and describe the shapes within the new composite shapes they’ve created. Students combine cubes, rectangular prisms, cones, spheres, and cylinders to create and describe new composite shapes.  (See About this Cluster and the Unpacking Document below for more details on this cluster.)