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| Ready-Set-Tech: Polygons, Parallelograms, Quadrilaterals- Oh My!!! |
Marion Peluso, P.S. 101,
Brooklyn,
New York
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| Grade Level |
3 - 5. With
modifications, this can also be used with an advanced second grade
class. |
| Subject |
Math, Reading |
| Background |
This hands-on experience brings to life the
properties of the figures students are familiar with. Exposure to
math based literature, enriches and expands the students’ prior
knowledge. Students learn how to work together to complete a task. |
| Objectives |
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of shapes and their
properties.
Students will work cooperatively in pairs to complete a task. |
| Materials |
Internet access, Shape
Up! Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons by David A.
Adler, Illustrated by Nancy Tobin, The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns, a class set of pattern blocks, and attached
worksheet. |
| Procedure |
Day One
1. Have students review important instructional vocabulary words
at: http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ (An animated
dictionary that explains over 400 math terms. Included are
interactive activities, practice, and calculators.) Words to
include: property, polygon, quadrilateral, and parallelogram.
2. Read Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and
Other Polygons by David A. Adler, Illustrated by Nancy
Tobin.
Day Two
1. Read The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns.
Compare and contrast the two different books. See if students can
identify that although the topic of both books were shapes, one
book was fiction and the other was nonfiction.
2. Place students in pairs, making sure that
more advanced students are paired with your at-risk ones.
3. Distribute to each pair, a worksheet and one
of the following shapes from a pattern block set: a triangle,
square, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon.
4. Give students approximately one half hour to
complete the worksheet. Circulate the room to make sure pairs are
tracing the shapes, and answering the worksheet in complete
sentences. |
| Evaluation |
After completing this hands-on
activity, students will take turns going to the Polygon section
(Quadrilaterals and Other Polygons section) at: http://pittsford.monroe.edu/jefferson/
calfieri/geometry/geoframe.html
(a geometry review site that also offers quizzes at the end). |
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