Description
This lesson and its accompanying resources were developed to help students classify quadrilaterals in a coordinate plane. This lesson is built around a flow chart. Flow charts in general help students think through complicated ideas, and exposure to them in high school will prove useful for those who later enter fields like engineering and computer science.
Included in this resource:
1) Flow Chart, which is available as a free resource (Classifying Quadrilaterals Flow Chart)
2) A PowerPoint, complete with animations and solutions for all problems. There are 3 Example problems and 3 Practice problems. Each Example is followed by a Practice problem. The Examples are intended to be worked with the entire class (Guided Practice) while the Practice problems are intended to be done individually or with a partner (Independent Practice). There are also 3 Extended Practice problems for students who may work faster and need something to do while other students finish.
3) Guided Notes that correspond to the PowerPoint.
4) Homework with a good mix of question difficulty, complete with Answer Key. There are also two bonus questions that deal with triangles in a coordinate plane (the PowerPoint lesson only covers classifying quadrilaterals, so asking them to classify a triangle pushes them into "uncharted territory" and is meant to encourage them to figure out how to apply skills to similar but different problems).
5) Create Your Own Problem sheets with two problem formats. In effect, students are asked to create their own problem and solve it. This doubles as a good partner activity where students create a problem for their partner to solve.
If you found this resource helpful, check out my other Geometry resources:
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Description
This lesson and its accompanying resources were developed to help students classify quadrilaterals in a coordinate plane. This lesson is built around a flow chart. Flow charts in general help students think through complicated ideas, and exposure to them in high school will prove useful for those who later enter fields like engineering and computer science.
Included in this resource:
1) Flow Chart, which is available as a free resource (Classifying Quadrilaterals Flow Chart)
2) A PowerPoint, complete with animations and solutions for all problems. There are 3 Example problems and 3 Practice problems. Each Example is followed by a Practice problem. The Examples are intended to be worked with the entire class (Guided Practice) while the Practice problems are intended to be done individually or with a partner (Independent Practice). There are also 3 Extended Practice problems for students who may work faster and need something to do while other students finish.
3) Guided Notes that correspond to the PowerPoint.
4) Homework with a good mix of question difficulty, complete with Answer Key. There are also two bonus questions that deal with triangles in a coordinate plane (the PowerPoint lesson only covers classifying quadrilaterals, so asking them to classify a triangle pushes them into "uncharted territory" and is meant to encourage them to figure out how to apply skills to similar but different problems).
5) Create Your Own Problem sheets with two problem formats. In effect, students are asked to create their own problem and solve it. This doubles as a good partner activity where students create a problem for their partner to solve.
If you found this resource helpful, check out my other Geometry resources:
