Friday, September 16, 2011

Shapes in Nature Scavenger Hunt

Whitt's GT students are hard at work!
Check out these photos taken today during our third graders' Shapes in Nature scavenger hunt! The students have learned the six shapes scientists say are found again and again in the natural world:
  • Branching
  • Spirals & Helices
  • Packing & Cracking (Hexagons)
  • Ripples & Meanders
  • Spheres & Explosions
  • Fractals

And.... they're off!!!

A great example of BRANCHING!


Tendrils are HELICES!


Can you find the HELIX in this picture?
 

Check it out!

This flower is an EXPLOSION shape!
It was fun hunting for examples!
The sun is a SPHERE!

CRACKING!
A MEANDER (S-curve)!
Tree rings are RIPPLES!

The boys!


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