Discovery Activity - Quadrilaterals & Kites
- Author:
- Jessica Tentinger
- Topic:
- Kite, Quadrilaterals
Quadrilateral: a four sided figure.
Draw any quadrilateral below. Measure each angle.
What is the sum of the angles?
Answer the questions below
Measure the angles of the figure below.
What is the sum of the angles?
What do you notice about the angles?
Are any sides parallel? Explain
Measure the sides of the figure below.
What do you notice about the sides of the figure?
Diagonal AC has been added to the figure. Measure all the angles created by the diagonal.
What do you notice about the angles?
What kind of triangles are created? Explain.
Diagonal BC has been added to the figure. Measure all the angles created by the diagonal.
What do you notice about the angles created?
What kind of segment is diagonal BD?
Both diagonals have been added to the figure. Measure the angles created by the diagonals.
What do you notice about AEB,BEC, CED, and DEA?
What do you notice about diagonals AC and BD?
Both diagonals have been added to the figure. Measure the segments created by the diagonals.
What do you notice about the segments?
Summarize the information you learned about Kites and its properties. Create a short presentation to give to the class.