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Grade Range
1st
Rating
4 Stars

Students identify, describe, and compare a variety of shapes. Using strips of construction paper, they construct a triangle with one of the angles pointing up, a triangle with the vertex pointing down, and answer discussion questions about each triangle. Students follow step-by-step directions to create other shapes. Full Review »

Grade Range
1st
Rating
3 Stars

Students explore solid shapes. They discuss the various types of solid shapes and their characteristics. Students sort various everyday items by their shape. They take turns sorting the everyday objects within their groups. Students discuss the names of the shapes and the shapes that make up the solid shapes. Full Review »

Grade Range
2nd
Rating
4 Stars

Students explore geometric shapes and define them by line and angles, and closed and open shapes. They create shapes using rubber bands and geoboards, then draw and cut out the congruent shapes on paper. Students then describe a shape to a partner, and they create that shape on a geoboard using just the oral description. Full Review »

[PDF] Solid Shapes
Grade Range
3rd
Rating
3 Stars

Students examine and compare the characteristics of a variety of solid shapes. In small groups they analyze different cans and identify the shapes involved, and discuss what solid shapes can and can't have. Students then construct a cube, a cylinder using a rectangle and a square, and a sphere, and list the characteristics of each shape. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd
Rating
4 Stars

Students compare and contrast circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares. The teacher describes a shape and they guess the shape she is describing, and using strips of paper build a variety of shapes. Students answer questions about the characteristics of each shape created with the paper strips. Full Review »

Grade Range
3rd
Rating
3 Stars

Students investigate the attributes of shapes including size and color regardless of their orientation. They change the orientation of triangles, and rectangles by drawing them, and working with tangrams and pattern blocks. Full Review »

Grade Range
5th
Rating
4 Stars

Students investigate the properties of geometric shapes and differentiate between two-and-three-dimensional figures. They participate in a playground scavenger hunt and identify examples of geometric shapes. Next, they write clues to describe a shape and try to guess each other's shapes, and independently complete a worksheet. Full Review »

Grade Range
Kindergarten
Rating
4 Stars

Students explore conservation of area using drawings and manipulatives of shapes. They identify the shapes as the teacher cuts mystery shapes out of one large paper square, then independently create their own mystery shapes and check their mystery shape with a partner's shapes. Full Review »

Grade Range
Kindergarten
Rating
2 Stars

Students examine how each shape has its own form by identifying, sorting, comparing and them. They work with strips of paper to build triangles on which they identify the vertex and other angles. Finally, they complete student activity sheets on which the count and sequence number cards. Full Review »

Grade Range
Kindergarten
Rating
2 Stars

Students work with a partner to build congruent shapes that they describe to each other while the shape is behind a file folder. They describe the shape while their partner builds it on the other side of the folder. Next, they each build their own shape and trace it before practicing their counting skills and addition triangles. Full Review »