Games to Go - Geometry
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Matchmaker Find the right match and you might become the ultimate “matchmaker”! |
spatial sense |
Students will develop aspects of spatial sense by looking for shape matches. They will strengthen their abilities to see shapes in different positions/ways (perceptual constancy). |
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Tangram Puzzler Can the same pieces make different shapes? It’s time to find out! |
spatial sense
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Students will develop aspects of spatial sense by looking for shape matches. They will strengthen their abilities to see shapes in different positions/ways (perceptual constancy), relationship to other shapes, and visual discrimination. |
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Secret Shapes Find a 3-D shape that you think your partner will never be able to guess! |
3-D shapes
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Through drawing, students will explore how 3-D shapes look from different perspectives and recognize faces of 3-D shapes. |
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Architect Designing the most interesting structure may earn you the most points! |
3-D shapes
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Using snap cubes, students will recreate and recognize 3-D structures by looking at a drawing. They will explore how 3-D shapes look different from different perspectives, and compare their structure to another. |
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10th Triangle Keep your eye out for a pattern if you want to place the last straw! |
triangles
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As students create triangles, they will explore growing patterns and patterning with 2-D shapes. |
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Stack It! Try not to be the one to topple the tower! |
3-D shapes
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As they build a tower made of 3-D shapes, students will be exploring the characteristics of prisms and pyramids and recognizing the surfaces and faces of the shapes. |
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Pick-Up Straws Look carefully! Spot the greatest number of right angles and parallel lines… |
right angles & parallel lines
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Students will name right angles and parallel lines that they recognize in a random arrangement of straws. |
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Angles and Lines Get out your magnifying glass… You’ll need a “good” eye! |
right angles & parallel lines
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Students will recognize and name parallel lines and right angles in 2-D shapes (pattern blocks) and in the environment around them. |
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Dotty Dash Connect the dots to make the greatest number of parallelograms! |
parallelograms
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As they draw parallelograms on cm dot paper, students will recognize and name parallelograms. |
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Parallelogram Puzzler Here you’ll build parallelograms one piece at a time. |
parallelograms
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Students will name and recognize parallelograms (pattern blocks) as they explore surface area. They will draw parallelograms on cm dot paper. |
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Tile It Tiling your grid isn’t too tough, but you’ve got to search to earn every piece! |
prisms & pyramids
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Students will recognize and name prisms and pyramids found in their environment. |
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Face Trace Be the first to trace all the faces and you’re in business! |
prisms & pyramids
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As students explore the faces of pyramids and prisms, they will recognize and name triangular, square, and rectangular prisms and pyramids. |
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Assembly Line First one to reassemble a box comes out on top! |
prisms & pyramids
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Students will cut and assemble nets for prisms and pyramids (common household boxes) and explore the faces of 3-D shapes. |
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Net Attack You’ll use toothpicks galore, but it’s where you put them that counts! |
prisms & pyramids
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Students will create, cut, and assemble nets for prisms and pyramids, and explore faces of 3-D shapes. |
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Stamp and Stump Stamp all the faces and surfaces into the dough. Can your partner find the matching shape? |
prisms & pyramids
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Using common household items, students will explore the flat faces and curved surfaces of 3-D shapes, and recognize and name pyramids and prisms. |
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Surface How a shape looks “on the outside” is what’s important here! |
prisms & pyramids
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Students will find and name pyramids and prisms in the environment and explore the flat faces and curved surfaces of the 3-D shapes. They will use a tally system to keep score. |
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Pattern War You may lose a battle, but you haven’t lost the war! |
patterns
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Students will create patterns with 2-D shapes (pattern blocks) using the characteristics of the shapes. They will compare the patterns and define the pattern rule. |
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Shape Sort Having a keen eye for detail is the key here! |
2-D shapes
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Students will sort 2-D shapes in a variety of ways based on their characteristics. They will identify the ‘sorting rule’ used to sort a group of shapes. |
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Shattering Shapes It’s a race to earn your polygon pieces back, then put them together in a different way! |
2-D shapes
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After creating a 2-D shape, students will subdivide and change the shape into a new shape. They will add 3 single-digit numbers, and recall basic addition and subtraction facts. |
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Change It Here you get to take it apart, then piece it back together! |
2-D shapes
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Students will subdivide 2-D shapes into triangles and use the triangles to create a new shape. |
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