| When | Wednesday 9:30-10:30 |
| Teacher Name | CarynJohnson |
| Target Age Range | 8 - 14 |
| General Grade Level | Lower Elementary, Upper Elementary, Middle School, All Welcome |
| Ability Level | Introductory, Advanced Beginner |
| Skill Requirements/Prerequisites | Manual dexterity is helpful. Patience with fussy building is necessary!! Ability to follow instructions and to share equipment is very much desired. No prior knowledge of geometry is assumed. |
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| Family Provided Materials | A journal for keeping notes about what participants have built, what they conjecture about patterns they are seeing, and for discoveries made. Can be any format that seems to work for the participant. A blank book, a lined-paper notebook, or a graph-paper book are the most obvious choices, but participants are welcome to take digital photographs if they have a camera, or to document their explorations in any other way that works. |
| Instructor Provided Materials | A suitcase-worth of Zome struts and connectors; "Zome Geometry" text; occasional hand-outs and worksheets to guide exploration. |
| Study Group Style | Discussion, Activity |
| Description | Using a special construction toy called Zome, we will explore a world of 3-D structures. Learn about basic geometric ideas: proportion, similarity, perimeter, volume, angles, edges, vertices, polygons, polyhedra, and on and on. Build, compare, classify, relate! Participants will build both individually and in teams, and we will discuss and explore and try things out. Many explorations will come from the text "Zome Geometry," by George Hart and Henri Picciotto; some will come from the group leader's past experience teaching ways of exploring 3-D forms. |