Hi teachers friends!
Are you sick of your hearing your students repeatedly say, "I'm just not a math person!"? Math can be a struggle for many. Changing the way you approach new concepts with your students may leave an impact on your math strugglers. Here are fun and creative activities that you can easily modify to fit the needs of your classroom. For more advanced students, I'll give you ideas to enrich the activity!
1. Geometric Art
2. Physical activity games! -Yarn, using your body
This is a unique movement activity and students also get the opportunity to stand up and stretch! Have students tie a large strand of yarn together so when stretched it makes a circle about their height. They can stand on one end of the yarn and contort their body in order to make a rectangle, triangle, etc. It's a blast (and pretty entertaining for the teacher.. :) )
3. Experimenting with Shapes
Whether your students are learning 2-D or 3-D shapes, let them explore how to use them to design different animals, objects, and creations! You can do this with paper scraps, building blocks, or pattern blocks. This helps with spatial reasoning as well as creative problem solving.
4. Design a Geometric Dream House!
This is such a fun project for all ages! Seriously, who doesn't love brainstorming the house of their dreams!?! And this can be a way for teachers to reinforce geometric concepts into student learning! This also teaches students daily application of geometry. This project includes shape review, rough draft pages, final draft pages, cut out shapes for final design, and explanations of floor plans.
5. Incorporate an interactive math journal!
6. Birdhouses & Shapes!
This is a cute spring activity for students who are just getting started with basic geometry (Pre-K-1st) In this resource, students color, write, count, and rearrange shapes using birdhouses! It is also common core aligned, with learning how to visualize objects in their environment, correctly name shapes, as well as building and drawing shapes. (K.G.A1, K.G.A.2, and 1.G.A.1)
Find this spring teaching resource here
7. Geo-boards!
Geo-boards are great for exploring and experimenting with shapes. However, students can get really off task with geo-boards and just end up mindlessly making crazy polygons. Make sure you give them set rules such as make a shape with 6 sides... "oh yeah a hexagon!" And then you can explore the differences between regular (all equal sides) and irregular shapes.
8. Shape hunt!
Have a printout of the different shapes your studying, whether they are 2-D or 3-D. Have students grab a clipboard and search around the classroom for objects that match the shape. Then as a class, go over what the found.
9. Marshmallow and toothpick shapes!
Students can build either 2-D or 3-D shapes by sticking marshmallows on each end of a toothpick! These make for some really neat projects!
10. Build a three dimensional city, exploring height, length, width, and volume!
This activity is best suited for older and advanced math students who are ready to explore volume. Students can get really creative, naming their city and inhabitants!
Do you have any geometry activities/games/lessons that you enjoy doing with your students?
Post in the comments below!
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