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"Polly"gon Pockets

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Explore polygons with your elementary learners. Divide the class in 12 to configure the polygon puzzle before them. They list the attributes of each type of polygon they see, and if there's time, they jump on the interactive website Polygon Playground. Materials are attached here. Although the lesson states that it is designed to meet third grade Common Core math standards, it is not clear as to how that should be done.

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CCSS: Designed
Concepts

angles, line of symmetry, symmetry, parallel lines, perpendicular lines, polygons, 2-d shapes, 2-d, right angles

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attributes of polygons, polygons, area of plane figures, unit squares, shape attribute, angles, parallel lines, right angles, line of symmetry, perpendicular lines, two-dimensional figures, math
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
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For Teacher Use
Duration
2 hrs
Instructional Strategy
Project-Based Learning
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Common Core

3.MD.C.5.a 3.MD.C.6 3.G.A.1 4.G.A.2 4.G.A.3 5.G.B.3 5.G.B.4 MP1

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