Geometry Around Us

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Geometry Around Us

• Miss Wheeler
• December 2007

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Look at the world around you

• Can you find lines?
• Do you see angles?
• Are there circles?
• What about combinations of these?

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Lets take a trip around our school

• Try to locate each of the sites pictured in the
  following slides. (Hint They are all somewhere
  on the high school side of the building.)

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Outside.
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Inside
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All around us

• Geometric shapes help define spaces, provide
  support, and in many other ways make our building
  unique.

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Take out your VFT passport!

• We are going to walk around the building now and
  locate each of these locations.
• You are to list the location and also at least 3
  geometric shapes you see there.
• You may also use the terms parallel,
  perpendicular, symmetry, and others than just
  names of shapes.

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When we return from our trip

• You are going to travel by computer in search of
  other examples of geometry in our world. This is
  a picture of the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma,
  AL.

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The first stop will be

• http//www.math-kitecture.com/geometry.htm
• Can You Find Geometric Shapes in Buildings and
  Structures?
• This site uses colored lines to help you find the
  geometric shapes in photographs of buildings and
  other structures.

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Visit at least 3 of these sites

• http//skyscraperpage.com contains pictures and
  facts about famous buildings
• http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/
  includes historic American buildings

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• http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/index.html
  includes buildings, bridges, domes, dams, and
  tunnels
• http//greatbuildings.com/types/models/spatial_mod
  els.html contains 3-D models of famous buildings

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And just for fun, visit one of these sites

• http//explorer.monticello.org/index.html is a
  virtual tour of Thomas Jeffersons Monticello
• http//www.unmuseum.org/wonders.htm describes the
  Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, sometimes
  comparing them to structures built much later

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Makes notes in your passport

• Where you visit
• What you see
• What geometric shapes or facts did you see
• And have fun on your trip in the world of
  geometry oops! You are already there!