Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Tech Teaching Idea

My third graders have just started a polygon unit. For my lesson, I want to test their understanding of polygons, so I would split them into groups and assign each group a camera. I would have them go around the school and take pictures of different polygons found throughout. We would them come back and I would print off the pictures and the teams would have to collaborate and create a poster or other graphic organizer and explain to the class why they shapes they took pictures of are polygons (closed, no curved edges, and 3 or more sides).

1 comment:

  1. great idea.

    You might also look for a good virtual manipulative that helps with a demonstration. Here are a couple of sites:

    http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
    http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/manip/mn_k.html

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