Partners work together to draw the path that was walked. Students discuss the characteristics of the path. Students develop directions for particular shapes, such as squares, triangles, hexagons. Challenge students to develop directions for a circle. The teacher listens for appropriate geometric vocabulary as students discuss their design and the placement of different objects.
Student present their sculpture to the class, using geometric vocabulary to describe it.
Students examine complicated objects and identify geometric aspects of them, e.g. the shapes of the different parts of a telephone or calculator. One partner secretly makes a solid from a given number of cubes, e.g. 8 cubes, and then wraps the figure tightly in aluminum foil. The other partner examines the foil-wrapped figure, looking and feeling, and tries to duplicate the figure using the given number of cubes. Partners discuss why they think the figures do or do not match before the first one is unwrapped. Partners trade places and repeat the activity.