Our GeomeTREEs

I pinned a post from To The Square Inch months ago that I wanted to use with my classes as a review of the relationships of quadrilaterals because some middle school students still have difficulty understanding that a square is a rectangle or that "diamond" is not a mathematical name for a figure but kite is. I liked her diagram and the day I was preparing my lesson I read her blog post again and had the idea for the students to actually draw a tree for their geome-"tree" entry. 

Some students volunteered to cut out all the pieces for the class the day before the lesson. I was really thankful for that because it seems like it takes forever for them to get things cut out during class. Does anyone else have that problem??? 

After every lesson I think about my "should haves." I wish I had made the quadrilateral pieces lift like a flap with the properties of each of the figures written beneath them. I think it would have made each piece more meaningful. Also, I wish I had switched the branches for the kite and the trapezoid and made a kite tale that connected it to the square because it is also a kite. Overall though it was a good activity for our interactive notebooks.

***To see the "Geome-TREEs" my 7th grade class created later in the year go to thePolygon Properties Notebook Pages post. I made a few tweaks from the version on this page.***

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