Chose from the Items Listed Below

Geometry Awareness Scavenger Hunt Your assignment is to find at least 20 of the following objects related to geometric concepts, vocabulary, and shapes. It items foster the idea that geometry is in the world we live in, and not just in the classroom we sit in. All items relate to some aspect of geometry.

This is NOT an internet scavenger hunt. Computer print out from internet searches WILL NOT be accepted. You may use a poster board or project board for your display. You should number each item placed on the posted as it relates to the list below. Be creative and make your project attractive and neat.

Chose from the items listed below: 1. A classified ad for a surveyor or cartographer 2. UPC code from 3 different sizes of the same brand of product. 3. A piece of mail (envelop or letterhead) with a “geometric” logo 4. A picture of a quilt which uses congruent shapes 5. A picture of a quilt using similar but not congruent shapes 6. A piece of wallpaper that contains at least one transformation 7. The number of “books” in Euclid’s elements 8. The names of two Non-Euclidean Geometries with a brief description of each 9. A right circular c one of diameter approximately 10cm; student made or commercially made 10. A dodecahedron; student made or commercially produced 11. A rectangular prism whose volume in cubit units is its surface area in square units 12. A square nut, hexagonal nut, and pentagonal nut 13. An advertisement for a specific item which shows vertical angles 14. A list of five geometry words that begin with the same letter 15. A picture of concentric circles 16. The brand name of a photographic enlarger 17. A photograph showing parallel, perpendicular and skew lines 18. The name of a local business that duplicates keys 19. The names of three devices used to measure angles 20. A sphere whose volume, in cubic centimeters, is 400 V 600 21. An advertisement that uses a conditional statement 22. Design a “Geodoodle” of your own. You must use an algebraic or geometric term 23. A picture of a tessellation 24. A comic that involves mathematics 25. A picture of an isosceles triangle 26. A picture of a fractal in nature 27. A picture of a trapezoid 28. A picture of parallel lines with no intersecting lines 29. A picture of a right angle, acute angle, and obtuse angle in architecture 30. A picture of 3 parallelograms: rectangle, square and rhombus

Also include 1 random item not listed above that deals with Geometry and include an explanation of how.

GRADING RUBRIC: Items displayed on poster (3 points each) ______/60 Each item numbered according to list (1 point each) ______/20 Turned in on time ______/5 Creativity of objects ______/5 Neatness (color, effort, presentation) ______/10 TOTAL POINTS ______/100 GRADING RUBRIC: Items displayed on poster (3 points each) ______/60 Each item numbered according to list (1 point each) ______/20 Turned in on time ______/5 Creativity of objects ______/5 Neatness (color, effort, presentation) ______/10 TOTAL POINTS ______/100