Geo-kids
Webquest
Geometry Journal

NAME:______________________________

K	W	L
What I already know about shapes and solids	What I want to know about shapes and solids	What I learned about shapes and solids

The Greedy

Triangle

1. Listen and read along to The Greedy Triangle at the

Reading center.

2. Prereading Questions: Answers these orally with a partner. Then write two of them out on the back of this journal page.

§ What do you think the book will be about?

§ Where will the story take place?

§ Is this a fiction or nonfiction book? How do you know?

§ Do you think you will enjoy this book? Why or why not?

3. The triangle in this story undergoes many shape changes throughout the story?

Below fill out the names of the shapes he changes into (in sequence order) and then

next to it write the number of edges and angles each shape has.

Shape #of Edges # of Angles

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4. What does the triangle discover by the end of the story?______

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5. If you had your choice of being a shape, which shape would you be?

Why would you choose to be that shape? ____________________

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6. Why would a shape with many sides and angles roll more easily than a

shape with fewer sides and angles?__________________________

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7. Would you trade your best friends for the chance to take an adventure?

Why or Why not?________________________________________

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Draw an illustration of your favorite part of the book and write a caption at the bottom.

The Greedy Triangle

By: Marilyn Burns

Complete the table below, by listing everything you’ve learned about each shape.

Square

Circle

Rectangle

Triangle

Kente Cloth Activity Sheet

A weaver makes 15 pieces of Kente cloth. She gives an equal

number to 3 friends. How many pieces does she give to each

friend?

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Suppose the weaver has 3 bobbin holders each with 6 green

bobbins and 2 red bobbins on it. How many green bobbins

does he have altogether?

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How many red bobbins does he have altogether?

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Suppose a roll of Kente cloth is made into a broad cloth that

is 12 feet wide. How many yards wide is it?

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Suppose a weaver weaves 18 goat symbols into 3 strips of

Kente cloth. If he weaves the same number of goat symbols

into each Kente strip, how many goat symbols does he weave

into each strip?

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Suppose you want to weave a strip of Kente cloth using 3

different symbols. How many strips of Kente cloth can you

make if you use each of the 9 symbols only once?

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How many groups of x's are there on the friendship symbol?

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Write a division fact that shows this.

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In the space below, draw your own symbol that stands for

something that is important to you.

What does your symbol mean?

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Silver Burdett Ginn Mathematics

www.sbgmath.com

Space Figures Quiz

Pick the correct answer for each of the following:

What is the following figure?

Cube

Rectangular Prism

Cylinder

2. What is this figure?

Pyramid

Sphere

Cylinder

3. What is this figure?

Cylinder

Pyramid

Cube

4. What is this figure?

Cube

Hemisphere

Sphere

5. What is this figure?

Rectangular Prism

Cube

Pyramid

Have your teacher check these answers as soon as you are finished with the quiz. If you have gotten all five right on the first try you have gotten 100%, four out of five right, 80%, three out of five right, 60%, two out of five 40% and one out of five, 20%. See your teacher or redo Space Figures if you get less than four out of five right on the first try.

Grade 3, Chapter 10, page 363

© Silver Burdett Ginn Inc.

NAME _______________________________________________

Shaping Up Activity Sheet

Figure 1 _________________

Figure 2 _________________

Number of sides in Figure 1: _______

Number of sides in Figure 2: _______

Number of corners in Figure 1: ______

Number of corners in Figure 2: _______

Write the name of the quadrilateral shaded red.

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Describe this quadrilateral.

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Write the name of a green quadrilateral.

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Describe this quadrilateral.

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How are the red quadrilateral and the green quadrilateral

alike?

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How are they different?

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Name of the pattern that contains a triangle and two kinds

of quadrilaterals:

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Names of the two kinds of quadrilaterals in the pattern:

___________________________________________________________________

Draw the Ohio Star pattern below.

Two shapes in the Ohio Star pattern that form a pentagon: __________________________________________________________________

Color a pentagon shape in the Ohio Star that you drew.

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Space Figures Activity Sheet

Name an object whose face is shaped like a plane figure.

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Name the plane figure that the face of the object looks like.

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Name an object that is shaped like a space figure.

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Name the space figure that the object looks like.

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What do you see?

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What space figure does it look like?

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What plane figure looks like the face on one bale of hay?

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What space figure does one bale of hay look like?

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How many faces does one bale of hay have?

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How many edges does it have?

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How many corners does it have?

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What plane figure looks like the face of the building?

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Name two objects that look like a cone.

1. ___________________________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________________________

Name two objects that look like a cylinder.

1. ___________________________________________________________________

2. ___________________________________________________________________

Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Name of solid	Objects found : (at least 3 examples of each)	Draw what you found
Rectangular Prism
Rectangular Pyramid
Sphere
Cylinder
Cube

GEO-PANES

? What kind of a Geo-pane can be made with a 3-D shape?

1. Build these shapes with toothpicks and gumdrops

Fill in the chart below:

Shapes	Triangle	Square	Cube	Rectangluar Pyramid	Rectangular Prism
# of Points/ Vertices (gumdrops)
# of Line Segments/Edges (toothpicks)
# of Faces (sides)

Hang each shape from a thread and dip completely into a water and soap mixture. Lift out of water slowly and make observations.

*What do you think will happen when you blow a bubble?_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________.

2. Describe what happened when you blew the bubbles.

(in complete sentences)

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Why would you choose to be that shape? ____________________

The Greedy Triangle

Triangle

Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Name of solid

Objects found : (at least 3 examples of each)

Draw what you found

Shapes

Triangle

Cube

Rectangluar Pyramid