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One of my favorite things that I do in this class is use Interactive Notebooks! I use a lot of different foldables in their notebooks to make things as hands-on and visual as possible. These notebooks serve as their own personal textbooks for the class as they are full of vocabulary and examples - and they can even add notes in their native language!
I just have my students use cheap single subject spiral bound notebooks (you know, the ones you can usually get for $0.17 at back to school time - my favorite time to stock up!). We use fun duck tape to create dividers. I have students fold down the top right corner of a page until it meet the spiral edge (the fold goes backwards) and then we tape the right and bottom edges of that piece of paper with the page behind it. The folded down portion allows us to have a small folder where students can keep things - tracing paper, transparency protractors, warm-ups, etc.
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I start the year reviewing concepts from previous years including area and perimeter. I use color coding to differentiate between area and perimeter.
We create an angle that students can manipulate to show an acute angle, a right angle, an obtuse angle, or a straight angle. Then we complete a foldable that has sections for acute, right, and obtuse angles. We include a diagram, definition, and classroom examples for each type of angle.
This basic foldable has a section for each type of rigid transformation: reflections, rotations, and translations. We include a one-word definition for each along with any other important information. We draw a simple example and then also use a cut-out shape to have an interactive example.
This graphic organizer showcases reflection and rotation symmetry. We cut out shapes and either glue a small part of them or attach them with brads so that we can manipulate the shapes to show their symmetries.
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