To introduce the new geometry unit I had my kiddos do two activities. We built robots out of geo-shapes. We also organized shapes into as many different categories as possible.
The words we talked about today were edge (another word for edge), vertex (another word for corner), and quadrilateral (4 sided figure). We talked about how quadrilaterals can look very different from each other!
Also, some great books for geometry are:
(Click on the link to go to the youtube video reading)
Another good book is Shape Up.
Walking around to look at other robots.
Sorted by color
Sorted by size
Sorted by number of edges
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