Geometry Popplet Scavenger Hunt

This week, we have started our geometry unit in math. I wanted to design an activity that would get the students engaged and also provide an introduction to much of the academic vocabulary that comes with geometry.

Using their pre-assessments, I designed an appropriate scavenger hunt for each of my small groups. After explaining how to use popplet, I sent them on their way to search for geometry in "real-life". They were completely engaged and we were all disappointed when we ran out of time and had to cut the scavenger hunt short on the first day. Tomorrow I will give them more time to complete their scavenger hunt. However, one of the downfalls of having popplet lite is that their popplets were not able to be saved. To bypass this, I had them save and email the work that they had completed to me to compile into a separate document. When completed,  I will print and distribute this document to each member of the group to use as a resource guide for the remainder of the unit.

Listed below are the two checklists:

Popplet Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Angles:

___ Right Angle

___ Acute Angle

___ Obtuse Angle

___ Reflex Angle

___ Complementary Angles

___ Supplementary Angles

___ Adjacent Angles

___ Vertical Angles

___ Angle Bisector

Triangles:

___ Scalene Triangle

___ Isosceles Triangle

___ Equilateral Triangle

*Challenge: Can you label these triangles according to their sides AND angles?

___ Right Triangle

___ Acute Triangle

___ Obtuse Triangle

___ Equiangular Triangle

Quadrilaterals:

___ Rhombus

___ Trapezoid

Figures:

___ Similar Figures

___ Congruent Figures

Popplet Geometry Scavenger Hunt

Lines:

___ Intersecting Lines

___ Perpendicular Lines

___ Parallel Lines

Angles:

___ Right Angle

___ Acute Angle

___ Obtuse Angle

___ Straight Angle

Quadrilaterals:

___ Square

___ Rectangle

___ Parallelogram

___ Rhombus

___ Trapezoid

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ACTIVITY UPDATE
A few days later...
The compilation of their emailed popplets did not work well. I decided to purchase the real version of popplet on my iPad and allow them to collaborate as a group on the scavenger hunt activity. This created a better finished product that will be a great resource guide for them throughout the unit, however, it was not ideal, from an engagement standpoint, to have 5 students working on 1 iPad.... I will continue to think about how to best utilize this resource but for now they did make 2 very cool finished products! I have printed them out for them to use throughout the rest of the unit.

Here they are!
(well almost... they will be, as soon as I figure out how to embed PDFs into this blog...)

Here they are (really this time)!