Build a Community: Collaborative Superspace Challenge
Learning Objectives:
Develop teamwork and communication skills through collaborative building.
Practice taking turns and giving/receiving instructions.
Identify and describe geometric shapes.
Use expressive language to present group ideas.
Strengthen motor coordination through hands-on construction.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6
Speaking and Listening
Speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly.
HOW DOES THIS LESSON ADDRESS THE STANDARD?
Students are prompted to explain their group's creation, using full sentences to express their ideas to peers and adults.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4
Speaking and Listening
Describe familiar people, places, things, and events and, with prompting and support, provide additional detail.
HOW DOES THIS LESSON ADDRESS THE STANDARD?
During the group presentations, children describe their built community spaces using shape and function vocabulary (e.g., This is our store. It has a square door.).
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.2
Geometry
Correctly name shapes regardless of their orientations or overall size.
HOW DOES THIS LESSON ADDRESS THE STANDARD?
Children identify and use Superspace panels (e.g., triangles, squares, rectangles) during construction and name them during presentations.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1
Speaking and Listening
Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
HOW DOES THIS LESSON ADDRESS THE STANDARD?
Students work in teams to plan and build structures, practicing turn-taking, listening, and speaking in collaborative settings.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.3
Geometry
Identify shapes as two-dimensional (lying in a plane, flat) or three-dimensional (solid).
HOW DOES THIS LESSON ADDRESS THE STANDARD?
Through hands-on building with flat panels to create upright structures, students begin to distinguish between 2D shapes and 3D constructions.
ELOF: Social & Emotional Goal P-SE 1
Social & Emotional
Child expresses a range of emotions appropriately.
HOW DOES THIS LESSON ADDRESS THE STANDARD?
Through group work, students express feelings about success, frustration, and joy.
CURRICULUM STANDARDS
