About This Lesson
This lesson is an extension. It looks at the stellations of polygons like pentagons and hexagons and then moves on to the stellation of the dodecahedron resulting in the small stellated dodecahedron.
Resources
Files
Stellations worksheet for students key.docx
Stellations worksheet for students.docx
Stellations Teacher Notes.docx
Standards
Identify the shapes of two-dimensional cross-sections of three-dimensional objects. Identify three-dimensional objects generated by rotations of two-dimensional objects.
Use geometric shapes, their measures, and their properties to describe objects (e.g., modeling a tree trunk or a human torso as a cylinder).
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