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| Exploring Geometry with Tangrams |
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| Students will explore properties and relationships of geometric shapes through the use of tangrams. - South Delta Middle School |
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| Geometric Safari |
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| After studying geometric shapes and ideas, the students will identify geometric shapes and ideas in magazine photographs. Upon identifying geometric shapes and ideas in magazine photographs, the students will use the digital camera to photograph five interior and/or five exterior school structures. After transferring the digital photographs from computer diskettes to hard copies, the students will identify geometric shapes in these photographs and the reasons they were used in these structures. The students will give class presentations and tell what they learned from taking their photographs. - Hunter Middle School |
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| Geometry and Measurement of the World's Most Famous Structures |
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| This lesson is designed to create awareness in students about how geometry is used in the everyday world in which they live. The student will learn how to find and investigate Web sites for specific information. This lesson is designed to integrate social studies and technology into mathematics classrooms and to show students how to do research on the World Wide Web. The student will use the Web sites and links of well-known structures to locate the answers to specific questions related to polygons and other geometric shapes of 3-dimensional objects, measurement of the buildings, and formulas used to figure the dimensions of these structures. Students may work in pairs or in small, cooperative groups to answer Handout 1: Web Search for the World's Most Famous Structures. - Booneville Middle School |
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| Math Quilts—Stories to Tell |
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| This math lesson will help students discover a practical application for basic math skills through the design and creation of a classroom quilt. As part of this lesson, students also will investigate the importance of quilts as a facet of cultural history by focusing on the special significance that quilts had during the Civil War. The central focus of the lesson is the young adult novel, Across Five Aprils, by Irene Hunt. Students will learn the uses of quilts during the Civil War and locate instances of these uses in the text of the novel. Using Microsoft Word, Microsoft Paint, or another appropriate computer software program, students will design a quilt square illustrating one aspect of an agreed upon theme for the class quilt. Students also will use their math skills to determine the amount of material needed to complete various aspects of the quilt.
This lesson is designed to be integrated with the following lesson plans that are also based on the novel by Irene Hunt:
- Tupelo Middle School |
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| Planning a Garden |
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| Students will use the World Wide Web to research and plan a garden for their school campus. Students will create a scale drawing of their garden plan and prepare a cost breakdown for plants and materials. Students will use a garden planner worksheet to record their planning data, and then use this data to create a presentation to promote their garden plan. - South Delta Middle School |
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| Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson I |
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| Students will complete a "Know and Want-to-Learn" Chart (KWL) as a pre-assessment, study the history of tessellations (tilings), investigate the properties of tessellations, and make and evaluate photographs of "found tessellations" for a PowerPoint/HyperStudio presentation. - Tupelo Middle School |
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| Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson II |
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| Students discover which regular polygons will tessellate, measure with a protractor and record the interior angles of regular polygons, check accuracy of measurement using a formula, discuss and make conjectures from a completed chart, and for assessment write a friendly letter or using Microsoft Word, other word processing program, or e-mail to a younger students explaining tessellations and what they learned from this lesson. - Tupelo Middle School |
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| Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson III |
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| Students watch and discuss an M. C. Escher video, use what they have learned to understand and apply their knowledge of tessellations in order to create a slide translation, present their findings in a 12" x 18" poster, and explore transformational geometry with software. - Tupelo Middle School |
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| Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson IV |
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| Students use what they have learned to understand and apply their knowledge of tessellations in order to create a rotational transformation.
Students will present their findings in a 12" x 18" poster. - Tupelo Middle School |
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| Tantalizing Tessellations - Lesson V |
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| Students apply what they have learned in previous Tantalizing Tessellations lessons in order to create a glide reflection transformation. They will analyze the tessellations of others and determine the shape of the original polygon. Students will present their tessellations on 12" x 18" posters.
- Tupelo Middle School |
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| What’s Your Angle? |
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| The students will identify and measure acute, obtuse, right, and straight angles. They will visit Web sites dealing with angles and their measurement, review the information contained on those sites, and report to the class about the sites’ usefulness for learning about angles. As a final activity in their study of angles, the students will create simple drawings using draw/paint tools, AutoShapes, and straight lines in Microsoft PowerPoint. They will then label each angle in their drawings and tell which of the four types of angles each is.
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