Geometry and Measurement Topics

Protractor
Compass
Point
Line
Plane
Parallel Lines
Intersecting Lines
Perpendicular Lines
Line segment
Ray
Right Angle
Obtuse Angle
Acute Angle
Staight Angle
Polygon
Side
Vertex
Triangle
Quadrilateral
Pentagon
Hexagon
Octagon
Equilateral triangle
Isosceles triangle
Scalene triangle
Right triangle
Acute triangle
Obtuse triangle
Rhombus
Trapezoid
Parallelogram
Rectangle
Square
Parallelogram
Circle
Center
Radius
Diameter
Circumference
Measurement
Inches
Millimeter
Centimeter
Perimeter
Area
Congruent
Symmetric
Line of symmetry
Endpoint

Notes

Depending on the level of your child, you may need to make this much easier or much harder. Also, I suggest making it much shorter in most cases as it takes a long time to do and check.

Some directions leave alot for the student to figure out. If that is too difficult, you can either simplify it, show them how to do it, or do it with them.

I use the back of a science display board as the base. This works very well.

Foam, while much more expensive makes for a longer lasting, more sturdy village.

You can tape the shapes in place (tape both front and back to the board to get them to stand up) or glue small popsicle sticks to the bottom of the shape and then use glue dots on the bottom to hold in place.

You can precut some shapes and just have them measure for the right ones

You can just take one building problem and have them glue their pieces to a paper. Or you can have them draw it and the decorate it thereby combining geometry with art.

You can make a geometry/art lapbook over time by having them create one building problem per page and put it in the lapbook. It would also be helpful for future reference if the labeled their shapes and identified the features.

Our sequence was:
1) Instruction
2) Create the lapbook page as we went over each subject
3) Student then worked alone to create village using lapbook as reference
(no practice worksheets were ever completed)
4) Took the chapter test(s)

Directions:

Below are the directions for the making the base:

1) Create a rectangluar base that has a perimeter of 84 inches with at least one side 61 centimeters in length.

2) Draw a line segment from one end to the other end, 61 cm in length, and 381 millimeters from one side.

3) Draw another line segment parallel to the first line segment but 482 mm from the side used in direction #2.
-- You may fill in with foam/paper strips or color with marker/crayon
-- Also, since these are line segments you can create 2 signs that say "dead end" and place them at the appropriate place on your segments.

4) Draw a ray that intersects the line in direction #2 perpendicularly and is 2 decimeters from one side.

5) Draw another ray parallel to the first ray but 4 inches closer to the middle of the rectangle.
-- You may fill in with foam/paper strips or color with marker/crayon
-- Since these are rays, you may create and place appropriate markers in the appropriate place.

6) With your marker, mark the point exactly in the center of the rectangle.
-- Label the point with its x/y coordinates in inches.

7) Cut a piece of string at least 61 cms long. Stretch the string from one end to the other eactly in the middle of the rectangle. Check to see if the sides are symmetrical. If they are, right the word "symmetrical" near the end of the string. If they are not, write the words "not symmetrical".

8) Now stretch the string on the opposite side from end to the other and check for symmetry marking that appropriately.