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Marshmallow Figures Lesson Plan

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Marshmallow Figures

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Young scholars enjoy making 3-D figures while learning about rectangular prisms, pyramids, vertices, edges, and faces. After a lecture/demo, students use marshmallows, toothpicks and a worksheet imbedded in this lesson plan to create 3 dimensional shapes.

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Concepts

rectangular prisms, vertices

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Grade

4th - 6th

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Duration

45 mins

Instructional Strategy

Project-Based Learning

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