Teaching with Powers

Show these posters around your room to remind your students of the different attributes of the different types of quadrilaterals. I created a web/tree type display to show how they are all related, i.e., a rectangle is a type of parallelogram. They are color coded with the different levels of this "tree," using goldenrod, purple, and gray. Shapes included: Scalene Quadrilateral Kite Trapezoid Parallelogram Rectangle Rhombus Square

This is a fantastic formative assessment or after lesson review after you teach the different types of quadrilaterals. Students will analyze different quadrilaterals to decide if they are scalene quadrilaterals (all different sides & angles), kites, trapezoids, or parallelograms. They color the different shapes different colors depending on their type. This includes a copy with all the quadrilaterals on one side, and then two pages where they are split up and enlarged (if you wanted to do a f