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Task 1: = __Who Said That We Can't Play With Our Food??__   = 1. The teacher passes out 2 Twizzler to each student 2. Explain to the students that they will be using these 2 Twizzler sticks to show what parallel lines look like *Note: The samples should not intersect  3. Have students discuss how they know that their lines are parallel  4. Once the students understand what parallel lines are, discuss perpendicular lines  5. Perpendicular lines are two lines that intersect or cross to make right angles  6. Tell the students to make a "T" with their Twizzler strips  *Note: The samples should intersect at a 90 degree angle 7. Have students discuss how they know that their lines are perpendicular 8. Use the next few minutes to reinforce the concept of lines by asking the students questions about what has just been covered 9. Ask students to describe and make examples in their own words of what lines, parallel, and perpendicular lines are. 10. Throw all Twizzlers away....JUST KIDDING! Eat them!

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Possible Extension: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: -webkit-left;">1. Now you get to use Rainbow Twizzlers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: -webkit-left;">2. Have students form various shapes (examples: rectangles, squares, triangles, rhombii, parallelograms, etc.) with their Twizzlers <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: -webkit-left;">3. Ask them to use the same color Twizzler to identify pairs of parallel and existing perpendicular lines within their shapes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: -webkit-left;">4. Allow the students to discuss the properties of the shapes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px; text-align: -webkit-left;">5. This can also be used to lead into a lesson about classifying shapes based on their properties

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px; text-align: -webkit-left;">Lesson Courtesy of Meghan Webb's "Lines, Rays, and Angles"

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= <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">__Picasso Ain't Got Nothin' On YOU!__   = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Background: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Piet Mondrian was a Dutch elementary school teacher who painted as a hobby and eventually became a world-famous artist. His paintings were inspired by geometry, especially parallel and perpendicular lines are rectangles. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;"> Now it is the students' turn to become a famous artist!

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Ask your students to create rectangular designs using rulers and sketch the design on a piece of paper <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">2. They can only use straight lines <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">3. Make many rectangles using parallel and perpendicular lines <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">4. Have the students go over their sketch with a dark marker <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">5. Allow them to color in select rectangles <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">6. Ask the students to find examples of parallel and perpendicular lines in their artwork

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">Possible Extension: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%;">1. Have the students find the rectangle with the greatest area and perimeter on their picture <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">2. Ask the students if those two rectangles are the same, or might they be two different rectangles

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 23px;">Lesson courtesy of Michael Naylor's "Art-Inspired Math"