HS4+Activities+and+Resources

Activities 12 [|Quadrilateral Quest-An interactive applet where students assess their skill at matching quadrilaterals with their properties] [|12 Classification of Quadrilaterals. This site gives the students several shapes and then has the student classify each group of shapes.] [| A lesson plan to have the students investigage real world applications of quadrilaterals.]

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Resources (7) - The lesson plan at this site is designed for teaching properties of quadrilaterals at the elementary school level ( https://www.nsa.gov/academia/_files/.../qualifying_**quadrilaterals**.pdf). The exercises could be used to access prior knowledge, or as a formative assessement, of what students remember about quadrilaterals from previous instruction.

(7) - This link includes an activity where students are given accurate drawings of quadrilaterals and tasked to discover as many properties that they can: Google Book 10/12 [|This website has good examples of quadrilaterals and some applications to the real world.] 12 [|Quadrilaterals and Conservation applets] 12 [|Linkage Strip Construction: Drawing Quadrilaterals] (8) - This article outlines a game in which students develop a strategy for identifying a quadrilateral given the properties. It provides an example os a student(page 21) product that reflects students applying inductive thinking to organize what they know about quadrilaterals. I think it is a good example of engaging a student in critical thinking. [|Quadrilateral] (7) - Example of an APK exercise on quadrilaterals: APK

11 1A visual inspection strategy in which participants carefully studied the visual appearance of objects. 2A verbal elaboration — or word-based strategy — in which individuals constructed sentences about the objects to remember them. 3A mental imagery strategy in which participants formed interactive mental images of the objects — similar to animated cartoons. 4A memory retrieval strategy in which they thought about the meaning of the objects and/or personal memories associated with the objects. (from [] ) 11 [] 11 [] 11)I am looking into a system for memorization that RhettButler told me about on the UG. Its called the Peg System. I am just starting to read about it and understand it so I may not be explaining it quite right but basically, you memorize one list based on numbers (pegs). The list should be fairly easy to memorize. For instance, for my first try at this I am using words that rhyme with the numbers so 1=gun, 2=zoo, 3=tree, 4= well you're gonna have to go to the Underground to know what 4= but I'm sure you can imagine, 5=hive, etc.). Then every time you need to memorize a list of things, you just picture the things you need to memorize in the appropriate pegs. For instance, if you needed to remember bottled water third on a list, you would picture a bottle of water up in a tree, if coffee was the first thing on the list, you could picture it shooting from a gun and so on. It did work for an online quiz I had to take last night for which I had to remember a list of 5 words. I only had to go through the list of 5 words once and it stuck! The drawback to my original list is that it only really works up to 10 because 7 and 11 rhyme and obviously all the teen numbers rhyme. RhettButler says that he has a system that is set up for a hundred but actually has infinite possibilities, so there are obviously other ways to set up your list. Just something crazy to think about! http://www.collegenet.com/elect/app/app?service=external/Forum&sp=20476 22- http://www.xpmath.com/careers/topicsresult.php?subjectID=3&topicID=6