Geometry
Performance Task Objectives
- Identify and describe the following: intersecting, parallel, and perpendicular lines
- Identify and describe angles
- Identify and describe characteristics such as symmetry, congruence, and similarity in geometric figures
Sunshine State Standards
- MA.3.G.3.1
- MA.3.G.3.3
Materials
- Student recording sheet
- Pattern blocks
- Rulers
- Thin markers or colored pencils (red, blue, green, brown, purple, yellow, black)
- Paper and pencil
Student arrangement
- Individual or small group
Task
Present the problem on the student Recording Sheet to your students.
Performance Criteria
- Does the student correctly
identify and describe geometric shapes?
- Does the student correctly
identify and describe intersecting, parallel, and perpendicular lines?
- Does the student correctly
identify and describe angles?
- Does the student correctly
identify and describe symmetry, congruence, and similarity in geometric
figures?
Directions:
1. Use pattern blocks to fill in the shape on the attached paper.
2. Using a pencil, trace each pattern block in your figure.
3. Complete the following chart to indicate the pattern blocks used.
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Name
of Polygon
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Color
of Pattern Block
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Number
Used
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Part II
On your figure from Part I, draw or trace the
following.
A. A set of parallel lines in red
B. Intersecting lines in blue
C. Perpendicular lines in green
D. An acute angle in purple
E. An obtuse angle in yellow
F. A line of symmetry in black
Part III
Choose 2 different pattern blocks.
1. Identify and describe each using geometric terms.
2. Explain or make a chart in which you tell at least 3 likenesses and
3 differences in the geometric characteristics of these two polygons.
(Use geometric terms.)
