Flickr Polygon Album

We uploaded pictures to my Flickr account today during math. We started by reading The Greedy Triangle which is a book about polygons. Next the students were put into groups of 4 and were instructed to use their devices to take pictures around the classroom, pod, and hallway of some of the polygons we read about/saw in the book. Then came the tricky part... I had my Flickr account and email ready to go. They were supposed to email the pics to my account. However, since they are 8 year-olds, most of them did not have email set up on their devices. I had to adjust and the kids just took my iPad around and retook their pictures.  We were able to email from there. It took longer, but I guess if the photo book was the goal, we made it. If it was for them to utilize their own device, it was an epic fail. A couple groups took pics of some figures that were not polygons, so it was also a good assessment tool. If mistakes were made, they were in shapes that did not have straight sides (a couple took pics of the globe or of coins.) This was a good opportunity to reinforce the properties of polygons! We displayed the pics on the whiteboard and discussed their sides and angles. Here is a link to our book: Flickr Polygon Book.