Module Overview
Module Overview:
Students are transported into the GeoVerse, a digital dimension where the world is built entirely from geometric forms. The walls shimmer with dynamic blueprints, and the floor transforms into shifting structures—grids, 3D shapes, puzzles, and terrain challenges.
Their mission: Restore the fractured city of Angulana by mastering geometry skills through movement-based challenges. Every correct answer reshapes the city; every mistake causes further collapse.
Objective:
Students will apply core 7th grade geometry concepts—including angles, area, volume, transformations, and real-world applications—while physically moving, building, and solving interactive challenges in teams.
🌀 Phases of the Module
Phase 1: Shape Shifter Zone – Classifying & Constructing Shapes
📍 Focus: Classify 2D shapes and manipulate their properties.
The floor becomes a large glowing grid with embedded shapes (triangles, quadrilaterals, polygons).
Walls display real-time clues and definitions, prompting students to find and stand on specific shapes based on their sides, angles, or names.
Example Challenge: “Stand on a shape with exactly one pair of parallel sides.”
Students then transform into “living shapes,” joining hands or connecting arms to form polygons physically.
✅ Skills Applied: Polygon classification, properties of triangles and quadrilaterals, geometry vocabulary.
Phase 2: Angle Arena – Measuring & Estimating Angles
📍 Focus: Identify, estimate, and measure angles using body movement.
The floor lights up with angle rays, and students must use their arms or bodies to match the angle shown on the walls (e.g., 90°, 45°, 120°).
Team members rotate through roles: "Angle Creators," "Estimators," and "Checkers."
Bonus: Students work together to form parallel lines cut by a transversal and identify angle pairs (alternate interior, corresponding, etc.).
✅ Skills Applied: Angle measurement, types of angles, geometric relationships in parallel lines.
Phase 3: Volume Vault – 3D Shape Adventure
📍 Focus: Calculate and compare the volume of 3D shapes.
Students enter a vault filled with floating holograms of rectangular prisms, cylinders, pyramids, and cones.
They must “step inside” the projected shapes and calculate the volume by answering real-time challenges projected on the wall (e.g., length × width × height).
Teams race to “fill” the shapes with virtual units by stepping on pressure tiles or placing projected volume blocks into shapes.
✅ Skills Applied: Volume of prisms, pyramids, and cylinders, comparing volumes in real-world contexts.
Phase 4: Transformation Temple – Reflections, Rotations, & Translations
📍 Focus: Understand transformations on a coordinate plane.
The floor becomes a virtual coordinate grid, and the walls display coordinates and transformation rules.
Students become points (each person represents a coordinate) and must move across the floor according to the transformation rules.
Example: Reflect across the y-axis
Example: Translate 3 units right, 2 units down
A final pattern-based puzzle requires students to arrange themselves into a transformed shape.
✅ Skills Applied: Coordinate geometry, transformations (translations, reflections, rotations).
Phase 5: The Final Structure – Area & Perimeter Team Build
📍 Focus: Real-world application of area and perimeter in collaborative design.
Students are given the task of rebuilding Angulana’s central plaza, displayed on the walls as a top-down blueprint.
The floor turns into a design sandbox, where students must “lay out” a park by selecting shapes to cover specific areas.
They calculate area and perimeter for flower beds, benches, paths, and fountains to stay within budget and size limits.
The final product is projected in 3D around them as they succeed.
✅ Skills Applied: Area and perimeter of irregular and compound figures, spatial reasoning, real-world application.
🏆 Victory & Reflection:
After completing the mission, students restore the fractured city, and the walls animate a celebration of geometric harmony.
Students reflect on:
Which challenges were the hardest and why.
How geometry shows up in real life (architecture, design, engineering).
How teamwork helped them solve spatial problems.
✅ Optional Exit Task: Students complete a short "Geometry Journal Page" where they write or draw one concept they mastered and how they physically represented it.