Mathematics - Unit 2: The Shape & Space Designers - LESSON PLANS - Year 5

Tired of spending your weekends planning? Transform your Year 5 Maths lessons with this complete, 9-week inquiry-based unit that turns every student into a confident and capable Shape & Space Designer!

Step into the world of "Unit 2: The Shape & Space Designers", a comprehensive Mathematics unit designed to save you time and deeply engage your Year 5 students. This unit focuses on building a strong foundation in Measurement and Space, moving beyond basic recognition to explore metric units (length, mass, capacity), perimeter and area (including irregular shapes), angles, 3D nets, coordinate systems and transformations with creativity and precision.

Packed with creative, hands-on activities, this unit will transform your classroom into a dynamic design studio or engineering workshop where students don't just learn about geometry, they live it as "architects, artists or game designers" designing and building their own geometric world.

What's Inside?

This 9-week unit is meticulously planned to help you deliver exceptional Maths lessons with confidence. You will find:

• 9 Weeks of Engaging Lesson Plans: Guide your students through a journey of discovery, from becoming "Measurement Detectives", designing a "Dream Room", investigating leaves, creating "Angle Art-bots", playing "Coordinate Battleship" and proudly presenting their final "Mini-Golf Course Design" project.
• Australian Curriculum Aligned: This unit is fully aligned with the Year 5 Mathematics curriculum (Version 9.0). It explicitly covers key content descriptors including AC9M5M01, AC9M5M02, AC9M5M04, AC9M5SP01, AC9M5SP02, and AC9M5SP03.
• Play-Based & Experiential Learning: Foster genuine understanding with interactive and creative activities that make geometric concepts memorable and impactful. Imagine your students designing a "Dream Room" blueprint, drawing "Angle Art-bots", deconstructing packages to find 3D nets, playing "Coordinate Battleship" and creating M.C. Escher-style tessellations .
• Built-in Assessment & Differentiation: Effortlessly monitor student progress through natural observation opportunities (formative assessment) embedded in each activity. Every lesson includes clear support and extension tasks to cater to all learners in your classroom.
• Early Career Connections: Expose students to potential future pathways by weaving career education into every lesson. Connect activities to the work of an Interior Designer, Pilot, Packaging Designer, Cartographer, Game Designer or Animator.
• Summative Assessment Task: Conclude the unit with a comprehensive "The Official Mini-Golf Designer's Licence" task, complete with a student-friendly rubric for marking.

Cover Your Entire Year of Maths!

This is Unit 2 of a comprehensive 4-unit bundle. Together, these four units cover all mandatory content descriptors of the Year 5 Mathematics Curriculum, providing you with a full year's worth of engaging, high-quality Maths lessons. Stop the endless search for resources and reclaim your time.

Download "Unit 2: The Shape & Space Designers" today and ignite a lifelong love for geometry and spatial reasoning in your classroom!