Student Activities

Search the Internet with given URL's to find or complete the following:

        answer questions from web pages viewed
        history of geometry
        history and definition of tangrams
        answer questions using vocabulary terms
        create a word search and cross word puzzle using 20 of the 32 vocabulary         terms
        solve a word search puzzle using vocabulary terms
        solve a crossword puzzle using vocabulary terms
        quiz using vocabulary terms
        how to make a tangram
        patterns and puzzles using tangrams
        select a verb from each level of Bloom's Taxonomy to create six questions        about one of the tangram puzzles solved  and have other students answer the questions.
 

Use tangram puzzles to complete the following:

        cover a figure with tangram pieces in several different ways, also try to solve the same
       puzzle using two sets of tangrams to discuss and write which figure was the easiest to solve
        experiment with covering three figures to find out which two figures can be covered
       simultaneously with one set of tangrams and record their findings
        create shapes from selected URL's on the Internet
        create new puzzles for other students to solve
        name all the acute, right and obtuse angles in the tangram set