Clarifying Activity Students reach into a mystery box, feel a geometric solid that has been placed there, and describe the solid to the class without looking, telling how many faces, edges, and vertices it has. The class tries to guess the solid. Clarifying Activity Students cut a variety of shapes from paper and arrange them onto a page to form a picture. Students then write a descriptive paper about their picture, using geometric vocabulary including vertices and edges or sides to describe the shapes used. The student connects transformations to congruence and symmetry.
Students can go onto the playground to act out some of their examples.
Clarifying Activity Students create a design using pattern blocks or color tiles and show a translation of that design by creating an identical one to the right, left, above, or below their original design. Clarifying Activity Students create shapes on geoboards and record their shapes on dot paper. Students make a sketch on the dot paper after each rotation and compare it to the shape's original position. Clarifying Activity Students use a computer drawing program to explore translations, reflections, and rotations. The student connects transformations to congruence and symmetry.