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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 5, Lesson 24: Read All About It!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to The Important Thing About Quilt Design and rewrite an original version using geometric terms.
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Surface Area

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders compute the surface area. In this surface area lesson students are given a set of problems to calculate. They compute the surface area of cubes and rectangular boxes.
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Sweet or Sour, Like or Different

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students watch a video on comparisons and discuss ways in which objects can be sorted. They play an identification game with a lemon and discuss identification characteristics.
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Ge-Oh Boy, Oh Boy

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners listen to the book, Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt and discuss the art of quilting. They examine various symmetrical sewing designs, and identify reflection pieces, slides, and flips.
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Tango's Story

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders listen to "Grandfather Tang's Story" and use tangram pieces to create animals described by the main character.
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Tetrominoes Cover-Up

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are given square tiles and participate in a demonstration on how to arrange them. Using the tiles, they work with a partner to discover how many two-dimensional tetrominoes they can create. To end the lesson, they must...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 6: Quilt Story

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students recognize that quilts are created by geometric components. They examine how quilts are an artistic art form that show the cultural heritage of the people who make them.
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Geology: Rock Hounds

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read Byrd Baylor's book, Everybody Needs a Rock. In small groups, they examine rocks and list their characteristics. After writing down the descriptions on cards, the rocks are pooled together. Students then use the...
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Math Maven's Mysteries

For Students 4th - 5th
In these story problem worksheets, students read the story problem 'The Case of the Hatcher Hotel Heist' and use the information within the story to help them solve the problem. Students use addition and subtraction to find the next room...
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A Whale of a Tale

For Students 4th - 6th
In this writing worksheet, students, utilizing a whale pattern, write several original exaggerated stories, cut them out into patterns and then make them into a shape book.
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Math Challenges

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students participate in a series of challenging math lessons designed to engage their critical thinking skills. In these real-world problem solving lessons, student solve symmetry and repeated pattern problems, make lists/tables to...
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Transformation, Reflections, Rotations and Translations

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students create a quilt, using different patterns. In this geometry lesson, students apply prior knowledge as they use different patterns to help them create a quilt using transformations and geometric shapes.
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More Spring Poems: Buttercups

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this literature worksheet, students read and discuss the poem "Buttercups," color the picture, underline the rhyming words and then write the rhyming words on pages two and three several times.
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Games

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this activity, students identify size and shapes if different circles. They identify the circles as sets of four using a specific pattern.
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The Kate and Jackson Problem

For Students 11th
In this probability worksheet, 11th graders are given a set of letters and asked to spell KATE and JACKSON using a special pattern that's in the shape of a rhombus. There is an answer key with this problem.
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The Pink Panther

For Students 11th - 12th
In this calculus activity, students use tangrams to create different shapes and patterns. They relate each segments to a trigonometric identity with its integral.
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Causal Patterns in Air Pressure Phenomena

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore a scientific concept to obtain understanding by performing an experiment. The inquiry can be done in groups or as a whole class. The outcome is that students can use models to obtain futher understanding.
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Road Trip: Line, Pattern, and Movement

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students examine and explore various line, color, and movement elements in artwork. They view and discuss examples of abstract artwork, and create their own original abstract design that tells the story of a road trip.
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No Edge, No Center -- Exploring the Shape of Our Universe

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine various "spaces" (including ones that are one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional). For each space, they will examine what it means to have or not have an edge, or to be finite or infinite.
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Puebla Patterned Pots

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders examine and discuss the characteristics of tin glazed earthenware pottery of Colonial Mexico. They design and create their own Talavera-style plate by applying the concept of radial symmetry.
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Causal Patterns in Density Phenomena

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Pupils realize that density exists. They develop a mental model of density-to realize that something is going on that they cannot see to account for differences between materials.
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Positive/Negative Bugs

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders create a design using a detailed drawing reversing positive and negative space. They explain organic shape and geometric shape.
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Tiling the Plane

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use pattern blocks and triagular grid paper to reivew shape names, be introduced to the concept of a tiling of the plane, and determine which pattern blocks tile the plane. They are asked if they comprehend what a...
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Patchwork Math

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students recognize and identify shapes in their environment. They investigate why objects can be composed of several different shapes. They follow a pattern to recreate designs using various shapes.

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