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It's My Birthday, Too!
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Context
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| It is Christopher's birthday, but younger brother Robbie thinks it should be his birthday, too. | |
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Project
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| Children create 3-D birthday cakes. Using paper patterns or creating their own, they make round, square, or rectangular three-layer cakes from construction paper and "ice" them with felt, ribbon, buttons, lace, zigzag cutouts, etc. | |
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Application
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| Math and spatial reasoning as children create flat patterns with tabs that work in three dimensions, with proportionately decreasing measurements for each layer. | |
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Grade level
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| 3-4 | |
| Media specialist Curt Hokanson used this idea with third graders at Reede Gray Elementary in Redwood Falls, Minnesota. The "cakes" had a delightfully skewed Dr. Seussian look! |
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| ages 4-8 |
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