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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Flat Ball

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using simple geometric shapes cut out of paper and taped together to create a ball that is as round as possible with this challenge. This page also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering...
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Eternal Egypt: Board With Nine Panels

For Students 9th - 10th
A board divided into nine panels and decorated with geometrical designs interlaced with floral designs. Some of the panels are adorned with swastika within lozenge. Other panels are decorated with five-pointed stars encompassing...
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Eternal Egypt: Statuette of a Princess

For Students 9th - 10th
The statuette portrays a woman, probably a princess, with short black hair. She wears a tight, transparent dress decorated on the chest with colored geometric designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Qur'an Box

For Students 9th - 10th
This wooden Qur'an box with ivory, mother-of-pearl, and ebony inlay is decorated with plant and geometric designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Mihrab of Al Sayeda Ruqqayah

For Students 9th - 10th
This wooden mihrab is taken from the shrine of Al Sayeda Ruqqayah. It is decorated with geometric designs resembling star patterns.
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Eternal Egypt: Textile Fragment With Camels

For Students 9th - 10th
The Tulunid textile fragment has a red band decorated with white and green camels separated by geometric designs.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Ice Cream Cone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
You have been hired by the owner of a local ice cream parlor to assist in his company's new venture. The company will soon sell its ice cream cones in the freezer section of local grocery stores. The manufacturing process requires that...
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: The Art Zone

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Ten interactive activities that allow you to use the computer to create and manipulate works of art.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix:i Pod Inspired Writing Lesson:linear & Exponential Growth Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This is a writing activity perfect for a math class, it's designed to help students see the differences between linear (arithmetic, adding) and exponential (geometric, multiplying) growth. Students explore the ideas of linear and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Satellite

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
This task models a satellite orbiting the Earth in communication with two control stations located miles apart on Earth's surface. Students determine distances between various locations and, given a rate of travel, they determine the...
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Other

Nazca Figures: Inca Lines. Inca

For Students 9th - 10th
Text and photographs focus on various figures and geometric shapes: Nazca Candleabra, Nazca Whale, Nazca Rose, and Nazca Hummingbird. Includes a chart of all Nazca designs.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Guggenheim: Josef Albers

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a biography of Josef Albers and links to related topics.
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Other

Finite Geometry Notes: Diamond 16 Symmetry Puzzle

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site see if you can solve the "Diamond 16" puzzle. Change the patterns to create ordinary or color exchange symmetry. This is just one of several challenging puzzles at this site. Links to similar puzzles and games.
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Yale University

Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Elements of Architecture

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of thirteen lesson plans on a wide variety of topics related to the study of architecture.
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Eternal Egypt: Rug From Asia Minor

For Students 9th - 10th
The design of the rug is a mihrab (prayer direction niche) with a triple arch. On top of the arch, there are several narrow horizontal bands of stylized geometrical and floral designs. Archaeologists refer this particular rug to the city...
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Unesco: Kenya: Fort Jesus, Mombasa

For Students 9th - 10th
The Fort, built by the Portuguese in 1593-1596 to the designs of Giovanni Battista Cairati to protect the port of Mombasa, is one of the most outstanding and well preserved examples of 16th Portuguese military fortification and a...
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Unesco: Spain: Aranjuez Cultural Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
The Aranjuez cultural landscape is an entity of complex relationships: between nature and human activity, between sinuous watercourses and geometric landscape design, between the rural and the urban, between forest landscape and the...
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Eternal Egypt: Qur'an Stand

For Students 9th - 10th
A Qur'an stand made of wood and inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The stand consists of the support for the Qur'an and a base. The main decoration on both sides of the support starts at the edges with indented designs of geometrical and...
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Eternal Egypt: Scent Bottle

For Students 9th - 10th
This scent bottle, used for perfume, is made of silver and is decorated with geometrical, floral designs, and assembled borders.
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Eternal Egypt: Ardebil Small Basin

For Students 9th - 10th
The Ardebil small basin is made of brass with some areas decorated with geometric and floral designs.
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Eternal Egypt: Silk Textile Fragment

For Students 9th - 10th
This silk textile fragment, from the Fatimid period, has designs of geometric patterns, plant elements, and benedictory inscriptions.
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Eternal Egypt: Jar With Stylized Birds

For Students 9th - 10th
This lustrous faience pot consists of a pear-shaped shaft and a short neck, glazed and decorated with geometrical and animal designs.

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