Creating Shapes with Geoboards
Geometry — Shapes

Materials needed:

  • Geoboards

  • Elastics

  • Dot Paper

  • Instructions for designs

Find a partner or small group.

  • Get a geoboard for each person and some elastics.

  • WARNING: If the elastics are not used properly and only on the geoboards then the geoboards and elastics will be taken away.

  • Create shapes using the instructions below (Try a few and then make your own shapes on the geoboard). After you have made a shape show it to your partner or people in your group and then record your favorite shape on your dot paper.

  • Make one point shapes

  • Make two point shapes

  • Make three point shapes

  • Make four point shapes

  • Make a shape with two sides, three sides, four sides, six sides

  • Make a shape with two points in the middle of it, three points in the middle

  • Put the completed dot paper in your portfolio.

 


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