Even high school students get excited about the holidays and Christmas time! Adding festive activities into your daily lesson plans will give your students some added excitement to how they are already feeling. If your students don't celebrate Christmas, there are tons of ways to make these activities winter themed instead of Christmas-themed specifically. There is something for everyone! Geometry class has never been so fun. Check out these festive activities you can do with your students.
1. Geometric Ideas
Students can draw out their geometric ideas and let their imaginations run away with them. They can work to create Christmas-themed works and construct winter-themed images. They can even make a Christmas geometry puzzle!
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2. Complicated Coloring Sheets
Many students, and even some adults, enjoy coloring right up to and beyond their teenage years. These geometry coloring sheets are the perfect task to add to your classroom, especially in the spirit of differentiation or as an easy task before the break.
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3. Christmas Geometry Project
Math lessons like these ones are excellent because they include pictures and words. Festive math problems are a great way to ring in and celebrate the holiday season. It is a fun activity for students because it is Christmas themed!
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4. Quadrilateral Christmas Puzzle
Hearing the word puzzle always excites kids. They will definitely have fun in math class while working on this geometry quadrilateral Christmas puzzle. Who knows what the answer will be when you involve Santa Claus too! Check it out at the link below.
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5. Merry Christmas Equations
Christmas-themed math equations just might inspire your reluctant students to want to solve them. The teacher can write their own equations and then add them to one of your math centers. They could be a part of your daily math challenges.
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6. Differentiated Chocolate Kisses
It is widely known that there are students of various abilities all within the same class. Adapt an activity like this to be a part of your geometry math activities centers and cater to the widespread needs of your students. You can customize the bottoms.
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7. Geometry Snowflake Challenge
This challenge looks at lateral symmetry and rotational symmetry. The word challenge also excites students and peaks their attention. This challenge can be brought into your school's math club as well or only in your math classroom. It will build on their math skills.
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8. Christmas Coordinates
Graphing with coordinates has never been so fun! Math teachers everywhere will be happy to see an assignment like this one. It is festive and educational all wrapped up in one. Awesome ideas like this one will teach your students and they will have fun learning.
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9. Congruent Triangles Snowflake
Holiday ideas like this are perfect to include in your class as soon as the holiday season begins. This activity would also work as a task they can complete the day before the holiday break because it also involves a level of creativity and math.
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10. Geometric String Art
Your students probably don't have art class and math class mixed together too often. Amazing ideas like this one mix art and math together. String art like this one here does not require too many materials either. You will need different colors of string.
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11. Geometricity Santa's Village
This idea is so cool because it involves 3-D shapes and geometric shapes. Students can construct their own version of Santa's village independently or they can work with other groups to combine their creations and make their project even larger.
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12. Interactive Geometry Math Notebook
Interactive math notebooks are suitable for many different grade levels and ages. Students can show off their experience with shapes by making Christmas cards that double as interactive notebooks. They can work on their math skills and creative skills too.
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13. Christmas-Themed Toy Ordering App
This is an interactive idea that can be used to learn about a variety of different math topics. They can make a Christmas-themed toy ordering app or something similar. This could quickly become one of their favorite holiday math activities because it's fun to make!
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14. Oh Geome-tree
Your students can make their very own geometric holiday ornaments and you will get a sense or feel of the class community when everyone hangs up their ornaments on your class tree. The results of this activity are amazing and beautiful!
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15. Build an Elf Home
This is a guided math lesson that involves the use of tangram pieces. Your students can work on building an elf home with these tangram pieces. You can challenge them to include certain shapes in their design and construction.
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16. Christmas-Themed Bingo
Playing bingo in math class must be rare. Designing or adding to an already created geometry bingo card will make your students want to answer the questions to find out if they can cover the squares on their card or not.
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17. Marshmallow Snowflake Geometry
Teaching about vertices, edges, sides, and more might be where you are right now. This activity can help make concepts more real and tangible. Christmas is also filled with sweet treats, so these manipulatives are fitting. This is also an excellent differentiation activity.
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18. Classic Tangrams
Sometimes keeping it simple is best. Providing your students with these reference cards of Christmas images in tangram form will help give them a visual image of what they are trying to recreate. It can be an excellent bulletin board idea when they are hung up.
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19. Different Types of Triangles Trees
Holiday-themed ideas like this one involve art, math, and endless creativity on the part of your students. Many of them might welcome this design challenge. They are meant to illustrate the different types of triangles in Christmas tree form. Check it out down at the link below.
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20. Geometry and Graphing Assignment
This is an awesome graphing student activity. They will also be able to tell if they plot a point incorrectly because it probably won't work with the image they are making. These are popular Christmas images and can be used as a gift idea.
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21. Design Santa's Workshop Blueprint
Instead of giving out operations worksheets, give your students a hands-on experience by giving them the chance to design Santa's workshop in blueprint form. This task will ask them to use many different math skills to complete and do well.
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22. Quadrilaterals Christmas Geome-Tree Craft
Make a quadrilateral Christmas tree family! They can add ornaments, tinsel, and even a star at the top of their wonderful creation. They can utilize graph paper or they can glue on construction paper. Colored paper is also another option.
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23. Geometric Christmas Image Art
This task mixes talking about lines, angles, mosaics, and colors. It is definitely a fresh task on traditional math assignments. They can create their own geometric puzzles or they can design a craft similar to stained glass. The end effect is fantastic.
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24. Paper Ornaments
Geometric ornaments are as festive as it gets! These ornaments are colorful and will make for an interesting keepsake. They can hang them on your classroom tree, if you have one, or they can take them home and hang them on their tree.
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25. Christmas Themed Mandalas-Rotational Symmetry
This task requires precision and dedication if you want it to come out looking as cool as the ones shown above. Rotational symmetry is a mathematical concept that is being worked on and practiced here. They can pick their own preset design or make their own template.
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26. DIY Ornaments
These DIY geometric ornaments are minimalistic and simplistic. Your students can pull off crafting these ornaments using just a few simple materials you probably already have in your classroom cupboards.
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