Geometry Scavenger Hunt

As luck would have it, my class studied cones, cylinders, spheres, rectanglar prisms, and pyramids this past week. As a culmination to the unit study I took small groups on a scavenger hunt for these shapes in the real world. I shared the PowerPoint my group had put together in our Quest 2 math methods class first. A student would find a shape, then another student in their group would take a digital picture. We continued the hunt until each student had taken a picture, and been in a picture. The students (2nd graders) had a blast. This week I have tried to find time to bring each one to the computer so they could build their page of the class PowerPoint on their shapes. They inserted their picture from a file, sized it, inserted a text box to type their name in any font and size. Then they inserted another text box and typed the name of their shape, and how many faces, edges, and vertices it contained. In some cases they resized the font or moved their pictures or text to a newly desired location. We just have a few more pages to complete (from students who were absent). I can't wait until the students see their finished product!