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Sculpture Shapes

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Students reconstruct an ancient Greek sculpture using various geometric forms and explore different geometric forms. They create an abstract human form out of geometric shapes and create other representations out of the same shapes.

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geometric shapes, shapes

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geometric shapes, math
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
45 mins
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