Star Kids Studio - HOME - NEXT Module C: How I See My World In Module C, students work cooperatively to explore both two- and three-dimensional figures. Through active investigation, they discover properties of geometric shapes while gaining an appreciation of their own geometric world. Program C.3 - Which Shapes Tessellate? School: Joyce Elementary (Detroit Public School) Student: Paul Tate Program C.1 - What Shapes Can I See in the World around Me? Activity: Shapes around your School School: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Washington, D.C.) Anitra Horton (Year 6) wrote: "Today we went around the school looking for polygons such as hexagons, octagons, pentagons and there are plenty more. I found a polygon in my 6th grade class. On the window shade were stars. Stars are shaped like decagons. A decagon has ten sides. If you look inside the star it seems as if it could be divided into five triangles. A pentagon would also be inside the star."    School: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Washington, D.C.) Dorian Duckner (Year 5) wrote: "The two boys in the picture are holding up a milk crate. It is shaped like a square. Inside you can see more rectangles and rhombuses. Around the edge of the milk crate are a number of triangles."    School: Martin Luther King Jr. (Washington, D.C.) Kimberly Hailey (Year 5) wrote: "This is a picture of a fire alarm box. It is located in the hallway on the first floor of our school. This box is red and short and shaped like a pentagon. It has five sides. I also see two shapes that make up the pentagon. They are a triangle and a rectangle. A triangle has 3 sides and a rectangle has 4 sides with four right angles."    home | star schools | distance learning | contact us | text version