Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Geometry Std 3: Verify the relationships among different classes of polygons by using their properties.

Lesson Plans Develop a Quadrilateral Hierarchy The objective in this lesson is to develop a hierarchy. Develop a Quadrilateral Hierarchy This is a collection of Geometry lessons that includes a good lesson on quadrilateral hierarchies. Properties of Polygons This is an overview of the properties of polygons. Classifying Geometric Figures This Illuminations lesson has students identify, describe, compare, and classify geometric figures using Venn diagrams.

Resources: Polygon Hierarchies If you are using Palms in the classroom, this is a good graphic organizer to help students create hierarchies of polygons. Download the demo version for free. Wikipedia Under the definition of hierarchies, Wikipedia lists many named polygons and orders them using hierarchies. Tessellation Applet This lesson contains a java applet that allows student to tessellate the plane with various polygons.
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