Today's Classroom Activities :

Geometric Shapes

Geometric Friends
Math/Art/Writing At the end of your unit on geometry, encourage your students to make a large collection of various sizes and colors of all the shapes they have studied. Give each child a large piece of felt or stiff background paper on which to create a "geometric guy" or "geometric girl" from these shapes. Their beings may be animal, human or robot. Have students name and write stories about what their inventions can do and where they came from. Students might work in pairs to create a play between characters with dialogue and homemade sets. Imaginations rule!

School-Bus Geometry
This lesson introduces an unusual measurement of distance using a school bus. See a world where circles are squares?

Geometry in Tessellations
This lesson allows students to examine tessellations and their geometric properties. The activity and discussion may be used to develop students' understanding of lines, planes, angles, and polygons.

Exploring Geometry on the Sphere
This particular activity allows students to discover that not all geometry is Euclidean.

Native American Geometry - DESIGNS
Provides hexagons, family square designs, landscaping, symbolic secrets, and more.