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This again newly revised activity is designed to review previously learned geometry vocabulary such as horizontal, vertical, regular and irregular polygons, x axis, y axis, ordered pairs, symmetry, and origin. Students follow directions using vocabulary to plot points which eventually builds a regular hexagon. Students then draw intersecting lines of symmetry to locate the treasure. To extend this task to a higher level of Blooms thinking, students are encouraged to build their own treasure m

Nothing But Nets is an inquiry lesson I used with fifth graders for them to test their conjectures about what types of nets would work to build cubes that didn't overlap and that covered all sides of a cubic unit. Included you will find: *Cover page *Teacher notes describing the lesson I taught before this one in detail and how I used this activity in the classroom *Activity including 10 nets labeled A-J *Answer Key *Writing Prompt Thank you for your purchase! I’m an educator, just like you.

The is a picture of a bulletin board used for displaying student work of a volume activity. The candy box has brown snap cubes in it which were used to represent chocolate pieces. The work below displays nets of boxes students built. They measured the volume using snap cubes. They wrote the answer in cubic units on the back of their box. While students are passing by, they can look at the nets and figure out the volume. There is an answer key beside the boxes so students can check their wor