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Problem solving geometry activities for Microsoft Word
Graphing Polygons on the Coordinate Plane to Find Area/Perimeter
This activity asks the students to plot various ordered pairs on a coordinate plane and connect the points to make a polygon. Then they are expected to calculate the area and/or perimeter of each shape. The first worksheet has a square, two rectangles and a triangle. The triangle is starred to show higher level thinking. Each polygon is to be colored a different color. The second worksheet asks the students to plot the points of five polygons: a triangle, two rectangles and two composite f
The Critical Thinking Toolkit: DESIGN SPRINT (Design Thinking Activity)
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Design Sprints are creative problem-solving tools for moving your student’s thinking forward a lot in a small amount of time (1-2 hours) by taking them through a series of timed brainstorming, feedback, and iteration sessions. The logic behind them is that it’s better to test and figure out all the thing
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
Team Building Energizers - Building Classroom Community Games and Activities
This product includes forty games and activities you can play with students to build your classroom community. Each game is described thoroughly so you can successfully play them with your students! The games that are included are:
1) Hangman
2) Celebrity
3) Quick Change
4) Electricity
5) 2 Truths/1 Tall Tale
6) Human Knot
7) Lucky 6's
8) Maze
9) Helium Stick
10) Sentence Story
11) Left Out - Clumps
12) Giggles
13) Charades
14) People to People
15) Back 2 Back Drawings
16) Bippity Bipitty Bop
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K - 9th
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Lines of Symmetry Activity
The learner will use this hands on activity to recognize lines of symmetry by cutting 15 figures, fold them to find its lines of symmetry and paste them in groups depending on the number of lines of symmetry each figure has.
By manipulating and folding each figure to discover its lines of symmetry, the student will bring the abstract concept of symmetry to an easy manipulative concrete figure.
The teacher will also have ans answer sheet that can be used to show the students the lines of symmetry
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3rd - 5th
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Easter Pattern Block Puzzles - Bunny and Easter Egg
Kindergarten and first grade students can practice their counting skills and knowledge of shapes and they use these templates to make pattern block pictures. After they construct their pictures, they count and record how many of each shape they used. Included are a bunny and an Easter egg. (Bonus Easter basket picture too!)
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PreK - 2nd
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Graphing and Writing Equations of Circles: Cell Phone Towers Task
This lesson plan and activity were created to allow students to explore a real life situation involving graphing circles. Students will get lots of practice writing equations for circles and graphing circles on a coordinate plane as well as using some problem solving skills to make their own decisions.A lesson plan with some estimates of time are included in the pages.Make sure students have graph paper that has at least 40 units total for the x-axis.Standard graph paper from the store normally
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9th - 11th
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Similar Figures and Scale Factor Interactive Notebook Page & Practice Problems
This is an interactive notebook page that I used to introduce similar figures to my 7th grade math class and to review similar figures with my 8th grade math class. It also includes practice problems so that students can practice what they have learned.
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Grades:
6th - 8th
Grant: Winning Proposal for LEGO Mindstorm Robotics Kits
This is a winning grant proposal to purchase LEGO Mindstorm Invention System robotics kits to use for science, physics, technology and engineering activities. A state electrical cooperation awarded $1500.00 for this grant in 2002. This proposal is customizable and can be adjusted to compensate for the variations in prices and costs of the equipment so please adjust this grant as you see necessary to meet your project needs. The customizable parts of this proposal are highlighted in yellow. The R
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4th - 12th
Nets: Foldable Solid Figures (3-D Shapes)
Allow students to explore geometric solids with this packet of 15 foldable nets featuring an assortment of basic to complex three-dimension shapes, including a(n):
Cone, Cube, Cylinder, Pyramid, Pentagonal Pyramid, Hexagonal Pyramid, Triangular Prism, Rectangular Prism, Rhombic Prism, Pentagonal Prism, Hexagonal Prism, Tetrahedron, Octahedron, Dodecahedron, and Icosahedron.
Use this collection for hands-on construction activities by printing directly onto paper or card stock. Nets are in print
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3rd - 8th
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How to draw /build a house with shapes Creative Curriculum Buildings
This is a printout use to make two shape houses (they are the same color) using different colored contact paper. This is used in the building study with the Creative Curriculum. I printed out on white paper and then stuck the colored contact paper wanted for each piece in copy machine one at a time to make sure each piece turned out the color I wanted. The picture you see for the thumbnail is when it is printed on different colored contact paper. In word it does not look like might much as it is
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PreK - 2nd
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Murder Mystery Puzzle (Law of Syllogism and Detachment)
Help students improve their logic skills with these murder mystery puzzles. You get 5 different puzzles. Each person was questioned and give 3 statements. Only the murderer lies. Improve student's critical thinking while helping them to apply the Law of Syllogism and the Law of Detachment to combine statements. As a hint of where to start, look for statements that contradict! Answers are included!!
Instructions: Someone was murdered! Use the laws of logic to determine who was the murderer. All
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5th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Deductive Reasoning Logic Puzzle
This is an investigative activity where students are given evidence (assumed true) and asked to fill in the missing information in a logic grid.
Uses:
Independent Classwork
Homework
Small Group Work
Problem of the Week
Includes:
1 Logic Puzzle Worksheet
1 Answer Key
Lesson Objectives:
Students will compare deductive and inductive arguments.
Students will construct deductive arguments.
Students will evaluate inductive reasoning.
There is a short prompt introducing the situation regarding 5 ne
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6th - 9th
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The Critical Thinking Toolkit: HEXAGONAL THINKING
Give your classes the critical thinking tools and frameworks they need to think through big, complicated issues, as well as training them to reflect on their own thinking patterns and behaviours!Hexagonal Thinking is an analysis and facilitation tool that gets individuals, pairs, or groups to make connections between ideas, themes, terms, people, places, and just about anything else they can think of. It generally involves arranging hexagonal tiles together in a ‘web’ or mosaic. The only real ru
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6th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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Also included in: THE CRITICAL THINKING BUNDLE
House floor plan design project
Students use math and design skills to create their own home floor plan
Grades:
5th - 9th
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Problem Solving Picture Cards with Solutions for Special Education
20 Problem Solving Situation Cards with Real Pictures and 2 Solution Card Choices for Each---See the preview please!
These cards are a great problem solving resource to use with special education students that are learning how to fix problems that they encounter in their daily lives, and especially at school.
An example of how to use them in your classroom is provided.
*Data Sheet and Mastery Sheets are included.
Grades:
PreK - 12th
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End of Year Project
This EIGHT PROJECT BUNDLE (!!!!!) will keep your Algebra 1, Geometry, or Algebra 2 students busy for the last 1 - 3 weeks of school doing either independent or group projects, with or without access to technology. Projects include rubrics and grading criteria for the most part, although I sometimes just grade this with a daily participation grade rather than for correctness. Project topics include:
- Area and Perimeter -- Design Your Own Playground!
- Linear Modeling -- Human Height and Bone Le
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8th - 12th
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Coordinate Plane Battleship
Fun way to have your students practice reading and identifying points on a coordinate plane. Uses 1st quadrant only.
Print and laminate for repeated use! Have students place their ships on the left. Using 2 colors of dry erase markers, they make guesses on the right side, marking a miss with one color and a hit with another. On the left side, they mark the misses and hits from their opponents guesses.
CCSS.Math.Content.5.G.A.1
High School Geometry Final Design Project
This was a VERY SUCCESSFUL project for my students. It takes the average students about 300 classroom minutes. The kids worked on it the last week of school in groups of 3. This was designed for a Common Core based college preparatory high school geometry class. The topics covered include:
Construction(circumcenter)
Tangency
Scale
Volume (sphere, cylinder, rectangular prism)
Displacement
Geometric probability
Average Rate of Change
Slope
Angle of Elevation, Depression
Arc Length
Arc Measure
Ci
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9th - 10th
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Valentine's Day Pattern Block Heart
Kindergarten and first grade students can practice their counting skills and knowledge of shapes and they use this template to make a pattern block heart. After they construct their hearts, they count and record how many of each shape they used.
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PreK - 1st
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Editable Scratch Coding Lesson Plans Bundle - Computer Science
This is the EDITABLE bundle for Scratch 3.0. Resources open in Google Slides so that resources can be shared with students in Google Drive or Google Classroom. This bundle is suitable for Distance Learning. These lessons are not just step by step tutorials, but cover programming concepts in details such as IF statements, loops etc…. Questions in the worksheet also expect students to look at their created scratch blocks and explain how and why they work as well as how and why they can be modified
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Not Grade Specific
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40 Geometry Proofs ASA, SSS, SAS, AAS, HL, CPCTC Two Column Version A
40 Proofs in MS Word. Proofs cover SSS, SAS, ASA, ASA, HL, AAS, CPCTC, equidistant theorem, parallel lines, circles, overlapping triangles, and more. All proofs can be easily manipulated to prove other parts of the diagram. I assign one proof every three days to keep the format and structure in my students minds.ll proofs are two columns. Proofs range from 6-14 steps.2024 Update: All diagrams have been professionally updated. Given and Prove can easily be changed in MS Word. The diagrams are sta
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7th - 12th
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Also included in: Ultimate 2 Column Proof Package Over 150 Proofs
Triangle Congruence Matching Activity
This is a triangle congruence matching activity that I've used in my class as a two person matching activity. I've used this at the end of class to see if students knew how to solve these problems and as a warm up lesson to start off the day. There are 10 matching sets of cards: 2 for SSS, 2 for SAS, 2 for ASA, 2 for AAS, and 2 for Hypotenuse Leg (HL). I hope your students enjoy this.
I have a website that has videos to explain all of these triangle congruence statements. Go to www.doucehou
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8th - 11th
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Design a Room Floorplan Project | Scale Factors, Surface Area | PBL
Students will get so engaged with this project because they get to personalize it!Objective: Students will get a chance to solve an authentic design and budget problem using their knowledge of scale diagrams and surface area. Students develop their financial literacy and communication skills too!Concepts: Scale Diagrams, Surface Area, Financial Literacy, Problem SolvingGrade Level: 8-11What is Included:Student instructions and worksheet including a detailed shopping list for furniture and paint
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6th - 11th
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STEAMy GATE 4th 5th 6th PYRAMIDS Unit
Very STEAMy with reading and writing, too! This unit is loaded with higher order thinking tasks, variety across the curriculum, creative responses, and hands-on learning through building and design. It’s the same sort of stuff you’re used to seeing here, and your kids will love it!
• Level—4th through 6th grade GATE
• Time—about 15 hours
• Materials—start saving cardboard!
Craft sticks and tape or low temp hot glue. Otherwise, common classroom materials.
You’ll get explanations, teacher
Grades:
4th - 7th
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