Building with Gum Drops
Hey again! I am going into the geometry world today...I know freaky! We have been learning so much these past couple classes and I am so excited to share what we have been up to. Geometry is not my strong place in math but I enjoyed this activity for various reasons. This activity helped me learn visually what is happening when we talk about shapes, vertices and edges. We used gum drops to build a cube, triangular pyramid, square pyramid, triangular prism, and pentagonal prism.
This is a great activity to engage your learners who are struggling with geometry and also for the ones who are aren't, for them to just have fun. Our class rotated in stations and building polyhedra with gumdrops was one of the stations. For me since I am struggling with geometry it helps me to see the vertices and edges of the polyhedra visually before moving on to a more in depth activities where we just look at the shapes. This activity allowed me to count the vertices which are the gumdrops and edges which are the toothpicks while constructing my shape, which I loved. I found it so helpful and would use this in my future classroom to help my students see the vertices and edges!
This is a great activity to engage your learners who are struggling with geometry and also for the ones who are aren't, for them to just have fun. Our class rotated in stations and building polyhedra with gumdrops was one of the stations. For me since I am struggling with geometry it helps me to see the vertices and edges of the polyhedra visually before moving on to a more in depth activities where we just look at the shapes. This activity allowed me to count the vertices which are the gumdrops and edges which are the toothpicks while constructing my shape, which I loved. I found it so helpful and would use this in my future classroom to help my students see the vertices and edges!
Hi Katelyn,
ReplyDeleteI really like this idea of learning all the parts of a polyhedron. I'm having a hard time with Geometry too! I'm guessing you're in the in-person class. This is such a cool way to show kids what the different parts of a polyhedron are like the edges and the vertices. I would so use this in my future class! I think this project would be for grades 4th and up? Anyways, nice job!