Exploring properties and characteristics of quadrilaterals sounds a little dry, doesn’t it? Well, not for my fifth graders! They have been having a blast this week learning all about quadrilaterals! The reason? Our quadrilateral foldable!
I decided to try a different approach this year; one involving foldables. Since my students love foldables, I figured, “Why not try it with geometry?” So, I created a fun, new 2-Dimensional Shape Foldable Packet, just for exploring quadrilaterals and triangles.
I started with teaching the 5 classifications of quadrilaterals: parallelogram, rectangle, square, rhombus and trapezoid. They cut and pasted the classification chart into their math journals.
Next, we cut out and folded the 5 different quadrilateral foldables.
I was able to show the foldable sheet (in pdf format) on the Smartboard (love technology!) and model how to fill in the information on each foldable. In groups, the students used their classification charts to finish filling in the information and labeling the rest of the quadrilaterals.
After they had done all the labeling, the students had fun coloring and arranging their quadrilateral foldable into their Math journals.
I love the way they turned out!
Now, my students can not only identify the types of quadrilaterals, they can answer the hard questions, such as:
True or False: All parallelograms are rectangles.
True or False: All rectangles are parallelograms.
True or False: All squares are rectangles.
True or False: All rectangles are squares.
Can you answer them? 🙂
My 2-Dimensional Shape Foldable Fun Packet can be found HERE at my TPT store! Your students are going to love this quadrilateral foldable!
Working on triangles too? Then you need to head over and see how I make triangle classification easy!
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Great activity.. foldables work for just about anything and my students love them!! The link opens up Chinese New Year Theme Books… just an FYI 🙂
Susan
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Susan,
Thank you so much for letting me know about the link. That was definitely strange….I have no idea how I did that! I've never even seen the Chinese New Year Theme Books before, but they were kind of cute …. 😉 It's all fixed now (hopefully)! Once again, thanks!
I love this! Do you have a link for it?
Thanks so much! Here's the link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2-Dimensional-Shapes-Foldables-Packet-Quadrilaterals-Triangles-Geometry-1099644
I love this! Do you have a link for it?
I love this! Both your triangles and quadrilaterals classifications look so great in this notebook format. And those True/False questions are SO important for critical thinking. 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
-Brigid
Thanks so much, Brigid! I really appreciate your input!
Love these. Can u share your pdf?
Thank you, Christine. So glad you like the activity! You can find the PDF here: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2-Dimensional-Shapes-Foldables-Packet-Quadrilaterals-Triangles-Geometry-1099644
Thanks again!