Our world abounds with geometry. Our students come to us with many experiences interacting with geometric ideas. One way to help students understand geometric ideas in our K-6 curriculum is to help them see connections among those ideas and their daily life experiences. This project is an opportunity to explore geometry in our world and create a product that could be used in your future classroom with your students when you teach geometric concepts.

Butterfly image from: http://butterflywebsite.com/gallery/index.cfm
Soccer ball image from: http://soccerwebsite.tripod.com/images/images1.html
St. Louis arch image from: Arch:http://members.fortunecity.com/kim_and_ida/arch.html

The PowerPoint presentation from class hopefully helped you start thinking about ways to explore geometry in our world.
 

• As you explore geometry in your world, think about a product you could create to use in your classroom to help children with geometric ideas in your curriculum. Create a website, Webquest, PowerPoint presentation, I-Movie, model, or some other product (with instructor approval)  that demonstrates geometry in our world.
• Identify grade level(s) appropriate for your product and list the objectives from the NC Standard Course of Study that your product will work towards.
• Describe how you might use your product in your classroom.
• Write a paragraph about what you learned related to geometry in our world as you worked on this project.

You may decide to take your own photos or use images from the web or other resources. If you use the internet, be sure and document your source. Some images are copyrighted and require permission to use on your website. Be sure and pay careful attention to this and submit documentation and permission with your project.

Many teachers and others have put together projects that they use. Here are some websites you might visit to get ideas about what you might create. Remember, I have looked at these too. :-)

http://kalama.doe.hawaii.edu/hern95/rt015/geo/ This was a series of slides created by Hawaiian teachers.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/webworldgems.html Webquest about geometry in our world

http://faculty.fullerton.edu/crenne/Geometry/geometry.htm More geometry in our world

http://schools.cbe.ab.ca/b383/Grade6/Gr6GeomSites.html includes several links including short history of geometry

http://www.xtec.es/ceip-pompeufabra-lloret/ciencia/english/natu0.htm geometry in nature

http://www.xtec.es/ceip-pompeufabra-lloret/ciencia/english/projec.htm School project focusing on geometry
 

You will have opportunities to present your product to your peers. The product is due on January 29.

To receive full credit for this assignment, you need to have a product that is:

• completed well with all of the required components bulleted above
• mathematically correct
• thoughtful
• focused
• developmentally appropriate
• creative