Assign this lesson as a student resource. Have students read and watch the video.

This section prepares students to engage the lesson. Throughout the teaching of this entire lesson, the facilitator provides an opportunity for students to collaborate with each other and provide feedback on their individual or group project.

Imagine section is a critical phase where students are encouraged to conceptualize, and visualize their ideas before diving into the building and prototyping stage in Build section. Pause to have a short group reflection.

Common Core Mathematics

For CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.G.A.1 introduce the icosahedron, characterized by having 20 equilateral triangle faces. Help them understand that shapes from different categories may share certain attributes. For example, the square has four sides, making it a quadrilateral. Encourage your students to recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals and have them draw examples of quadrilaterals that don't belong to these subcategories.

Platonic Solids List (bold is the featured shape in this lesson):

• Tetrahedron: A tetrahedron is a three-dimensional geometric shape with four faces, and each face is an equilateral triangle. It has four vertices and six edges.
• Hexahedron (Cube): The hexahedron, often referred to as a cube, is characterized by having six square faces. It has eight vertices and twelve edges.
• Octahedron: An octahedron is a polyhedron with eight faces, and each face is an equilateral triangle. It has six vertices and twelve edges.
• Dodecahedron: The dodecahedron has twelve regular pentagonal faces. It features twenty vertices and thirty edges.
• Icosahedron: An icosahedron is a three-dimensional shape composed of twenty equilateral triangle faces. It has twelve vertices and thirty edges.

Florida - NGSSS

For MA.3.GR.1.2 - MATHEMATICS (B.E.S.T.) describe relationships between lines and classify quadrilaterals. Start by introducing your students to the featured platonic solid. Some of these geomeAlthough it's not a quadrilateral itself, it's a great visual aid. Discuss the relationships between lines within the tetrahedron. For instance, how many lines of symmetry does it have? Then, relate this to quadrilaterals like parallelograms, rhombi, rectangles, squares, and trapezoids.

Platonic Solids List (bold is the featured shape in this lesson):

• Tetrahedron: A tetrahedron is a three-dimensional geometric shape with four faces, and each face is an equilateral triangle. It has four vertices and six edges.
• Hexahedron (Cube): The hexahedron, often referred to as a cube, is characterized by having six square faces. It has eight vertices and twelve edges.
• Octahedron: An octahedron is a polyhedron with eight faces, and each face is an equilateral triangle. It has six vertices and twelve edges.
• Dodecahedron: The dodecahedron has twelve regular pentagonal faces. It features twenty vertices and thirty edges.
• Icosahedron: An icosahedron is a three-dimensional shape composed of twenty equilateral triangle faces. It has twelve vertices and thirty edges.

Watch the video to get an idea of the project's structure and a demonstration of how it works. Some may figure out how to construct the project just from pausing the video or looking at a few images from the steps. The instructions are helpful for new builders or those seeking general guidance.

Florida - NGSSS

For SC.35.CS-CS.1.2 - COMPUTER SCIENCE introduce students to the concept of computational thinking, emphasizing problem decomposition, and the importance of breaking complex problems into smaller parts. Explain how this will be applied to building the animal. They can create fins, ears, increasing body size, claws, etc. for iterating on its adaptation. And for SC.35.CS-CC.1.3 - COMPUTER SCIENCE direct students to test how their animals would live by crafting the biome and their habitat.

NGSS

For 3-5-ETS1-1 - ENGINEERING DESIGN, students will consider constraints, such as the materials they have available, the time they have to complete the project, and any limitations when starting to build. For 3-5-ETS1-2 - ENGINEERING DESIGN, students understand how to design and build functional prototypes, as well as how to evaluate and refine their design through testing. And for 3-5-ETS1-3 - ENGINEERING DESIGN students engaged in this learning experience helps students understand how to design and build functional prototypes, as well as how to evaluate and refine their design through testing.

CCSS.Math.Content.3.G.A.1

Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.

1.6.c Creative Communicator

Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

MA.3.GR.1.2

Identify and draw quadrilaterals based on their defining attributes. Quadrilaterals include parallelograms, rhombi, rectangles, squares and trapezoids.