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Youngsters explore visual arts by participating in a geometry identification activity. They read the book The Very Busy Spider and identify the techniques spiders use to create webs. Have you ever noticed that their webs are geometric designs. They practice finding the perimeter of a shape and utilize a SmartBoard to play a shape identification game.

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quilts, sewing, home economics, spider webs, spiders, area, perimeter, polygons, 2-d shapes, 2-d, rectangles, quadrilaterals, shapes, squares

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quilting, geometry activity, shape identification, spider webs, area, perimeter, polygon, square, rectangle, real-world application, math
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Grade
3rd - 4th
Subjects
Math
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Duration
1 hr
Instructional Strategies
Project-Based Learning
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