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* This nonfiction title for ages 7 through 10 allows students to explore geometry in their immediate environments, including the classroom, community, backyard, and nature.
* Readers form a thorough understanding of geometric concepts at an early age, developing a solid comfort level with mathematics that will serve as a foundation for later, more difficult concepts.
* Meets the Common Core State Standards and NCTM.
* Uses an experiential, hands-on approach to encourage readers to discover geometry in their world, and understand the reality-based underpinnings of geometry in their everyday lives.
* STEAM activities are tactile and require movement, as students are "learning by doing," which creates self-efficacious, accomplishment-based learning experiences. This enhances cognitive recall of learning and allows students to generalize geometric concepts in the context of their environments.
* Encourages the development of important skills, including problem solving and model testing.
* Uses an inquiry-based approach to encourage readers to experiment with engineering designs and reach their own conclusions about what works and what doesn't.
* Uses links to online primary sources to engage readers in further, independent study.
* Guided Reading Levels and Lexile measurements indicate grade level and text complexity.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by Nomad Press .

Jeanette Moore has been an educator for more than 15 years. She has published several elementary school ELA, history, and mathematics workbooks, has served as a content editor since 2012, and has developed several original mathematics games. She is author of Explore Shapes and Angles! from Nomad Press. Cindy Blobaum is an educator and naturalist who has written several books for children, including Explore Night Science!, Explore Gravity!, Explore Money!, and Explore Honey Bees! for Nomad Press. She lives in Des Moines, IA, with her family. Matt Aucoin hold's a master's of fine art from the Center for Cartoon Studies and teaches drawing to preschool-age children. He lives in Windsor, VT.

This book has the following chapters:

Timeline

Introduction: Geometry through History

Shake Hands On It!

Chapter 1: Moving, Bending, Stretching Geometry!

Hands Down Geometry!

In Your Face!

Downward Facing Dog

Making Shapes With Friends

Chapter 2: Angles in the Classroom

Polygon Pile-Up

3-D Shapeshifters

Stop, Drop, and Fold!

Cube Art

Poetry Patterns

Exploring and Transforming

Chapter 3: Measuring Your Home and Yard

Dream Treehouse

Swingy Bird Feeder

Bubbly Prism

Geometric Garden

Mini Scale Models

Chapter 4: Ship-Shapes in the Neighborhood

Rub a Dub Dub . Wall?

Cartographers Are Mapmakers!

Shape Detective

Pool Planning

Volume Scavenger Hunt

Chapter 5: A Wide World of Geometry

Fractal Finder

Finding Fibonacci

Tetrahedron Tent

Glossary Game

Glossary

Resources

Essential Questions

Metric Conversions

Index