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Zome Lesson Plans

The Lesson Plans have 64 easy-to-follow, math-based activities with art, architecture, biology, physics, and technology extensions. The individual lesson activities are listed below.

The files are in PDF format. You can download the Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view or print the files, or you can order a hardcopy of the lesson plans.

Basic Concepts
Elementary School

2-D and 3-d Shapes
2-D Polygons
Animal Forms
Attention!... Angles
Beginning Bubbles
Cubes-I
Cubes-II
Cubes-III
Cubes-IV
Even and Odd Numbers
Geometric Shapes
Geometry is all around us
Multiple Reflection Symmetry
Perimeter Puzzles
Picasso and math
Printing Cubes and Pyramids
Printing with Zome System
Rhombi
Rotational Symmetry
Shape and Number
Similar Triangles
Speed Lines!
Spinners
Squares and Rectangles
Squashing Shapes
The Equilateral Triangle
Tilings with Quadrilaterals
Translational Symmetry in Tilings
Triangle Tiles - I
Try the Triangles
Trying Tessellation
Volume for Beginners
What are Quadrilaterals?
What is Area
What is Perimeter
What is Reflection Symmetry

Intermediate Concepts
Middle School

2-D and 3-D Stars
3-D Triangle Tiles
3-D Triangles
Bridge Building Project
Bubbles II: Minimal Surfaces
Descriptive Writing
Euler's Formula for Polyhedra
Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section
Finding Tau
Fun Fibonacci
Kepler's Tilings
Measures of Space-I: Lengths and Areas
Measures of Space-II:Volume
Naming 2-D and 3-D Shapes
Plane Patterns
Plato's Solids-I
Plato's Solids-II
Prime Factors
Richert-Penrose Tilings
Spiral Symmetry
Symmetries in Quadrilateral Tilings
Tallest Tower in the World
The Livable City
Tilings with Multiple Symmetries
Triangle Tiles -II

Advanced Concepts
High School

Archimedian Solids
Beehive City
Similarity and the Golden Section

Miscellaneous

Glossary
Resources and Recommended Readings
Standards
Zome Kit Summary

Zome is based on the 31-zone structural system, discovered by Steve Baer, Zomeworks Corporation, Albuquerque, NM USA. Zome is a registered trademark of Zometool, Inc. Made in the USA.