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Better Lesson: Finding Angles
The three types of angles, right, acute, and obtuse, exist in our everyday surroundings. Students find these angles using classroom items.
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Better Lesson: Geometry Shape Book
Third graders develop their understanding of the importance of different 2-dimensional shapes by finding real world examples.
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Better Lesson: Architecture With Shapes
Determining the differences between similar shapes in geometry is more meaningful when the students create architectural structures using the different shapes.
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Better Lesson: Polygons Explore the Possibilities
Online drawing programs allow students to explore many possibilities with polygons!
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Better Lesson: Polygons: Introduction & Investigation
Interacting with polygons and testing the definitions can be engaging, fun and build a powerful, individualized understanding.
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Better Lesson: Measuring Our Classroom's Perimeter and Area!
Connect new measurement knowledge and skills to the students' immediate environment.
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Better Lesson: Great Buildings of the World: Create Your Own! (Day 1)
Creating their own building is a hands-on, minds-on way for students to explore how polygons create 3D solids.
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Better Lesson: Differences With Shapes
Differences between shapes are determined through measurement skills.
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Better Lesson: What Makes a Shape? Analyzing and Script Writing
Third graders will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.