6TH GRADE

Measurement:
Let’s Make Triangles
 What you will do
1. Students will collaborate with
their peers to create right,
equilateral, isosceles, scalene, and
right isosceles triangles.
Triangles In the World Around Us
Let’s Create Our own Triangles
- You will work with a group of 4 to create an isosceles, right,
equilateral, scalene, and right isosceles triangle with tape on
the floor
- Everyone in the group will draw the triangle you created on the
floor in your chart
- You will label each side with its measurement and the
measurement of each angle.
 What will happen
What we should see What we should hear

Students collaborating with their peers Students discussing how to create the
different types of triangles

Students creating different types of Students talking with their peers to find the
triangles on the floor and recording them in measurement of the sides and the angles
their chart of their triangle

Students using the materials responsibly: Students asking and answering their peers’
keeping track of the scissors and tape, questions
cleaning up after themselves, using the
materials to create triangles
Notes For Teachers
- Materials required: tape for each group, scissors, charts for each
student.
- Prior to this lesson students were already introduced to the different
types of triangles and their characteristics.
- Essential Question: How can I make different types of triangles by
changing the angles and side measurements?
- This lesson will be used as formative assessment.
- The teacher will walk around as students are working and ask them
questions about their understanding. The teacher will record their
notes about students’ progress to determine what they understand and
what needs more clarification.
 Notes For Teachers
- Students’ worksheets will be collected to help determine students’
understanding of triangles. Students’ work can also help the teacher
determine common misinterpretations.
- Students will understand that the side lengths and angle
measurements and whether or not they are congruent correspond with
different types of triangles.
- Students will make right, scalene, isosceles, and equilateral triangles
with appropriate side and angle measurements.
- Students will collaborate with their peers to make different types of
triangles.