Item
Number
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Required
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Activity
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Points
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1.
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Give three examples of
applications involving geometry.
(Read paragraph two).
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7.5
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2.
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Create and label a paper
pizza to demonstrate diameter, radius, and center of a circle.
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5
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3.
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Find a cartoon, drawing or
piece of artwork that incorporates 5 different examples of points,
lines, and angles.
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10
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4.
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Is geometry used in
soccer? Identify two of the three angles (acute, obtuse, and
right), one triangle, one quadrilateral, one polygon, one
point, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, three different line
segments, one semicircle, and one circle.
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10
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5.
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Find three examples of symmetry
in sports. Find two examples of symmetry in
two-dimensional figures.
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7.5
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6.
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Find the geometric shapes on
these web pages. Name the shape, write the name of the object,
and draw the shape. polygons (rectangle,
square,
triangle,
quadrilateral,
pentagon,
hexagon,
octagon,
decagon, rhombus).
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10
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7.
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Write a composition about the
way quadrilaterals interact. Visit this site
to obtain your information. Make sure you explain the way the
square, rectangle, and rhombus are similar.
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5
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8.
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Find 4 business
logos made of circles. (Use Bing
or Google, then search for
images.)
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7.5
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9.
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Look at the pictures and
animations found at these two sites (one and two.)
Explain the difference between a congruent polygon and a similar
polygon.
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5
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10.
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Explain congruence in
line segments, angles, polygons, and circles.
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7.5
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11.
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Find
examples in nature or sports of three of the following shapes: cube,
rectangular prism, sphere, cone, cylinder, & pyramid).
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5
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12.
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Select a
letter of the alphabet.
Make a series of drawings that show how the letter flips, slides,
rotates.
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5
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13.
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Use a
T-chart or an input-output chart to show how triangles can become other
polygons.
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7.5
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14.
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Create 3 different patterns
with a minimum of 4 geometric shapes in each. Share this with a
classmate.
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5
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15.
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How
many colors? Visit this link, use the worksheet distributed
to you and solve.
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10
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