Mathematics Pacing Resource Document
4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
Teacher Background Information:
 What makes shapes alike and different can be determined by an array of geometric properties. For example, shapes have sides that are parallel,
perpendicular, or neither; they have line symmetry, rotational symmetry, or neither; they are similar, congruent, or neither. Elementary and Middle School
Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, John Van de Walle2004
 In the classification of quadrilaterals and parallelograms, the subsets are not all disjoint. For example, a square is a rectangle and a rhombus. All parallelograms
are trapezoids, but not all trapezoids are parallelograms. Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally, John Van de Walle2004
 A trapezoid can be defined as having “at least one set of parallel sides” or “exactly one set of parallel sides”. Indiana uses the latter definition.
Process Standards to Emphasize with Instruction of 4.G.1:
4.PS.2: Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
4.PS.3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4.PS.4: Model with mathematics.
4.PS.7: Look for and make use of structure.
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Mathematics Pacing Resource Document
4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
Lesson Plans/Print Activities:
Web-based Practice:
 Math Expressions
 http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=
o U2 Lesson 3:
quad
o U4 Lesson 4,6,
Sorting Quadrilaterals
o U5 Lesson 1:
 http://www.mathsisfun.com/quadrilaterals.html
 http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/inform
Discover quadrilaterals
ation/shape_facts/shape_facts.htm
Shape Facts
 http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/quadrilaterals-interactive.html Interactive
quadrilateral practice
 http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/practice.html?shapes
That Quiz practice test. Copy url for students to enter into
 http://www.nsa.gov/academia/_files/collected_learning/elementary/geometry/qualifying
their
browser.
_quadrilaterals.pdf
A lengthy unit with many hands-on mini lessons.
 http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/geo
metry/3-4/activities/new_quads/quads.html
 http://learnzillion.com/lessons/1708-identify-quadrilaterals-based-on-attributes
Quadrilateral Quest
Learn Zillion lesson
 http://syllabus.bos.nsw.edu.au/assets/global/files/maths_s2_sampleu1.pdf Check out
Activity 7: Celebrity Quadrilateral Heads
 http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/QuadSq
uad/quad007.htm
Quad Squad
 http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=32197
Lesson Plan: A What? A What? A Quadrilateral.
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4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
Indianapolis Public Schools
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Mathematics Pacing Resource Document
4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
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Mathematics Pacing Resource Document
4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
State the most specific name for each figure.
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4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
Select two quadrilaterals from the Word Bank. Use the Venn Diagram to compare and contrast them. List at least two similarities and two differences for each.
State all possible names for each figure.
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4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
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4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
On the lattice grids, use a ruler and a straight edge to draw figures with their corners on the lattice points.
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A pair of squares that make a rectangle.
A parallelogram with sides that are four units by two units exactly.
A rhombus that has exactly one lattice point in its interior.
A trapezoid with two right angles.
A quadrilateral with no equal sides and no right angles.
Two figures that have the same area, but one is a rectangle and the other is a parallelogram, but not a rectangle.
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4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
Identify each shape below. Use attributes of the shape to prove that you are correct.
Guess My Quadrilateral Riddles
1) My quadrilateral has 2 pairs of parallel sides.
2) My quadrilateral has 4 congruent sides.
3) My quadrilateral has 4 right angles.
4) My quadrilateral has a perimeter of 12 centimeters.
1) My quadrilateral is not a parallelogram.
2) My quadrilateral has exactly 1 pair of parallel sides.
3) My quadrilateral has more than 1 type of angle.
4) My quadrilateral has exactly 2 right angles.
1) My quadrilateral has at least 1 line of symmetry.
2) My quadrilateral has 2 obtuse angles.
3) My quadrilateral has at least 1 pair of parallel sides.
4) My quadrilateral has 4 congruent sides.
http://bridges1.mathlearningcenter.org/files/media/Bridges_Gr3_OnlineSupplement/B3SUP-C4_Quadrilaterals_1210.pdf
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Mathematics Pacing Resource Document
4.G.1
Standard: 4.G.1: Identify, describe, and draw parallelograms, rhombuses, and trapezoids using appropriate tools (e.g., ruler, straightedge and technology).
Indianapolis Public Schools
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