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Fun With Fractals
Students use fractals to analyze nature. In this geometry instructional activity, students work in groups using technology and math to communicate. They identify where in the real world fractal can be seen.
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Exploring Ecosystems
Fourth graders investigate ecosystems. In this ecosystem lesson, 4th graders explore producers, consumers, and decomposers and study the interdependence of each.
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Let the Light Shine Through!
Students display knowledge of line of symmetry by designing a geometric stained glass window pattern.
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Fold and Cut 2
Second graders make, name, and describe, using their own language and the language of geometry, everyday shapes and objects. They create and discuss geometric patterns which repeat (show translation), or which have rotational or...
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Can Stack
Students are able to find the rule for summing consecutive numbers;
identify the pattern of triangular numbers. They then solve the given problem using logic and mathematical reasoning.
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Sequences and Exponents
Young scholars practice multiplication sequences and multiplying with exponents. They study how a sequence is a set of numbers which follows a mathematical rule and can be used with all four operations and with combinations of operations.
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Math is Beautiful: Tessellation
Students examine patterning in Chinese and Japanese artwork prior to creating their
own tessellations using styrofoam plates in this creative cross-curricular lesson for upper-elementary/middle level classrooms.
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Sort It Out and Match It Up
Students identify objects that are the same shape and size. They compare and contrast attributes of two-and three-dimensional objects using appropriate vocabulary. Pupils justify an extension of a geometric pattern to explain what was...
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Irregular Fractals
Middle schoolers study and research irregular fractals and construct a few based on their research. Students practice pattern recognition skills and plane geometry skills calculating dimensions on the Fractured Pictures activity.
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Turn Symmetry
Fourth graders observe geometric patterns to determine if they show rotational or point symmetry. They participate in the a demonstration instructional activity with a triangle. They create their own designs that show rotational or point...
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Geometry Scavenger Hunt
Pupils use the digital camera, identify geometric shapes (in nature as well as man-made), and gain a better understanding of geometric vocabulary. They search for and recognize geometric shapes in unusual settings
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The Mandelbrot Set
Students explore the Mandelbrot Set. They are introduced to the concept of a complex number and function in order to motivate the discussion of Julia and Mandelbrot sets. Students investigate fractals and how they are built.
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Wardrobe
Sixth graders observe the wardrobe and discuss the role of the wardrobe in the culture of viceregal Mexico. They research the design and the influence of Moorish decoration in the geometric pattern on the door. Students identify...
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Creating Polygons
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons lesson, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.
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Tessellating Tiles
Second graders Make, name and describe, using their own language and the language of geometry, everyday shapes and objects. They create and talk about geometric patterns which repeat (show translation), or which have rotational or...
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The Clumsy Tiler S
Fourth graders solve a series of parallel problems. They use statistics, geometrical, and numerical aspects to solve the problem. Students create a pattern that answers the problem.
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Let's Make Lemonade Lesson 3: What's the Big Idea?
Students examine and decide on a service-learning project to perform. They design and execute posters that advertise the project using geometric shapes.
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Descriptive Writing
Pupils practice descriptive writing. In this unique writing lesson, students hear a story about a mitten. Then three grade levels come together to first, create a mitten on KidPix; second, describe the designed mitten; and third, try to...
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Fractions of a Set
Third graders use fractions to describe part of a set. In this fractions instructional activity, 3rd graders are introduced to fractions through a book and use pattern blocks to describe a fraction as a part of a set. This instructional...
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Chessboard Challenge
Second graders read "The King's Chessboard" by David Birch. The teacher reads the story aloud and pauses at several points for students to calculate the next number in a pattern of doubling.
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Creating Adinkra Symbols
Students discover examples of adinkra cloth. They explain the history of the symbols themselves. They create a larger pattern using geometric symbols. They discover how the symbols can be used to communicate with one another.
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Coconut-Shell Cup
Students research and discuss the social ritual of drinking chocolate in viceregal Mexico. They explain its cultural and historical and geographical roots. Students create their own "drinking" vessel from papier-mache. They experiment...
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Arti'stick Mobile
Young scholars examine works of stained glass in one dimensional art form then adapt it a three dimensional transparent mobile. They create their mobile using patterns of shapes and simple images from computer line art, printed art books...
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Manipulative Mania
Students explore tangram vocabulary and tangram designs, creating an art design that contains various geometric parts. They complete a checklist titled, Important Thing About a Quilt Design.