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1 - Making Shapes and Designing Quilts

Making Shapes and Designing Quilts: 2-D Geometry

This geometry unit focuses on two-dimensional shapes and the relationships between them. Students observe, describe, compare, classify, represent, and compose and decompose 2-D shapes. Students learn to use geometric language to describe and identify important features of familiar 2-D shapes. As they sort and describe groups of shapes, they begin to distinguish specific attributes of triangles and quadrilaterals. As a final project, students create paper quilts by repeating combinations of triangles and squares. The Shapes software is introduced as a tool for extending and deepening this work. This tool is designed for K–2 students to explore how different shapes go together, experiment with different sorts of geometric transformations (rotations, translation, reflection), explore patterning, and investigate symmetry.