MATHEMATICS | MEASUREMENT & GEOMETRY

LESSON 3, 4 AND 5 | TUESDAY 18TH JUNE 2019

FINDING SYMMETRY IN SHAPES
Identify symmetry in the environment (ACMMG066)

Introduction
1. Introduce the new topic to students and prompt them with the question; what does
it mean if something is ‘symmetrical’?
2. Give students the chance to think-pair-share and discuss some of the student’s
responses as a class.

3. Show the following video to students, which will either give new information or
confirm prior knowledge for students:
http://skwirk.com/esa/Symmetry.html

4. Pose the same question to students to see if their response is now different: “if
something is symmetrical, what does this mean?”
5. Using examples from around the room, e.g. wooden blocks from the building area,
ask students if they are symmetrical.
6. Pose the question to students, what are some symmetrical objects in the classroom?
And engage in a class discussion.
 7. Add a symmetrical shape to the board and invite students up to show a line of
symmetry on the board. This can be repeated multiple times depending on
student’s response to the task.

Body:
8. Allow students to then move through the flipchart at their own pace, checking in
on students throughout the lesson.
Task One:
Identify the lines of symmetry in the following shapes.

Task Two:
Engage in online games that are based on students finding symmetry in the
environment.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7799/index.html
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7798/index.html
Task Three:
Identify the lines of symmetry in the following shapes and move them into the
correct section of the table.

Task Four:
Identify and draw the lines of symmetry on the following world flags. We have been
learning about the world and the flags that represent countries – so this activity
follows on from prior learning.
Task Five:
Students are to complete the pictures by shading the squares in on the opposite
side of the line of symmetry.

Extension Task Six:

Students are to engage in further online games that are based on students finding
symmetry in the city.
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7802/index.html
http://www.scootle.edu.au/ec/viewing/L7801/index.html