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Parallel Lines
A song based on the writing of second grade students. Students did the following:
- students looked for parallel lines around the classtoom (tiles on the floor and ceiling; lines on the cupboard doors; wires on the guinea pig cage)
- we considered the following puzzle and guessed at the colour of the bear
- Molly steps out of her tent
- She walks south 1 km
- She walks west 1 km
- She sees a bear, and gets scared
- She runs north 1 km, arriving back at her tent
- How is this possible?
- And, what colour was the bear?
- we read the story Do Parallel Lines Meet?
- we explored the story and the puzzle by looking at lines on the globe
- students drew pictures and wrote to describe what they learned
- student writing was compiled to create the song below
- Students met another second grade class in the library and sand their song together
Parallel lines
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Tiles on the ceiling
Lines on the cupboard
Wires on the guinea pig cage
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Parallel lines
Never meet
But they meet, at the north pole
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The world is a sphere
A 3D solid
The world is not flat like a circle
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Molly in her tent
How did she get back
She saw a bear, what colour was it?
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Molly went south
Then went west
Then went north, how did she get back?
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Parallel lines
in a triangle
At the north pole, is how she got back
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