- Use the following website and image of a geometric pattern for the following activity.
- This is Figure06.03.01
- http://www.tfaoi.com/cm/2cm/2cm511.jpg
- Ask the students to work in teams and identify all of the different quadrilaterals in the drawing.
- Students need to identify the quadrilateral and then write the characteristics of that quadrilateral.
- Next, have the students work to complete their own quadrilateral art piece.
- All of the different types of quadrilaterals should be included in the piece.
- Also, the art design should only consist of quadrilaterals.
- Design and color need to be included in this work.
- Once they have done the design, have the students write a description of their work identifying each quadri-
lateral in the design and its characteristics.
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- Students can go to the following website to see a video on how to identify and classify quadrilaterals.
- http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/quadrilaterals.html
- Then the students can use this information in the first part of this lesson, or this can be used to help students
to solidify the information that they have already learned.
IV.NotesonAssessment
- Assess student designs.
- Have the students created a design composed only of quadrilaterals?
- Is it creative?
- Does the writing piece identify and describe each quadrilateral according to its characteristics?
- Provide students with feedback on their work.
Using Parallelograms
I.SectionObjectives
- Describe the relationships between opposite sides in a parallelogram.
- Describe the relationship between opposite angles in a parallelogram.
- Describe the relationship between consecutive angles in a parallelogram.
- Describe the relationship between the two diagonals in a parallelogram.
II.Cross-curricular-Architecture
- Select several of the images on the following website.
- Print these images and distribute them to the students or have the students use computers to look at the images.
- http://www.trendir.com/house-design/
- All of the homes here are constructed using many different parallelograms.
- There are large parallelograms, small ones, all kinds of different ones.
- Ask the students to select one of the houses and work with it to identify the elements of the parallelograms in
the designs. - Students need to be looking for the relationship between the opposite sides of a parallelogram.
- The consecutive angles and the diagonals- how can the relationship be determined?
- Ask students to take notes on their home and then to share their findings in small groups.
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