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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Making and Describing Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of creating and describing 2D and 3D shapes.  Using geometry your scholars will describe the attributes of shapes and their properties.  They explore and discover what happens when you combine shapes and then take...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Shape

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Ask elementary learners to explore shapes in everyday objects. They will discuss the elements of design and describe the shapes they see in visual images. Students will then design and "build" a new 3D shape. Finally they will show and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Origami Ducks: Geometry, Listening, and Following Directions

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Make origami ducks with your class to reinforce geometry concepts and vocabulary; develop fine motor and visual translation skills; and enrich study of Japanese culture, the pond habitat, or migration. Create a whole group "worksheet"...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cutouts

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students identify symmetry in shapes. In this geometry lesson, students fold paper to identify lines of symmetry. Students create various symmetrical shapes using folded paper.
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Learning
School Mathematics Project

Resource Sheets

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This extensive and far-reaching collection of worksheets puts a new twist on many basic concepts. Learners use multiplication to trace a path from one point to another, tile a plane by converting between improper and proper fractions,...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cutting Corners

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders examine two-dimensional shapes using their characteristics. In this shapes lesson, 2nd graders identify similarities and differences by using cut out shapes, diagrams, mirrors, and graphic organizers.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Rotations and reflections

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
In this rotations activity, students complete problems having to do with shapes and their rotations, reflections, symmetry, translations, and more. Students complete 6 problems.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Technology Integrated Lesson

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students investigate symmetry in the real world. For this geometry lesson, students inter-relate math and technology. They create and name a variety of polygons.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Reflection Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to determine whether or not a shape has reflection symmetry and how to draw lines of symmetry.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Rotation Symmetry

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This concept teaches students how to determine whether or not a shape has rotation symmetry.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Identify and Count the Lines of Symmetry in Various Shapes

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and take an assessment on identifying and counting lines of symmetry in various shapes.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Geometry: Symmetry and Tessellations Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Provides a brief overview of the different types of symmetry and of how to tessellate a shape.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Elem Math: Determining Whether Given Shapes Are Rotationally Symmetrical

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video to determine if given shapes have rotational symmetry and then take an assessment to test their skills.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Classifying Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] With this flipchart students will learn how to classify two-dimensional shapes and discuss the attributes of polygons.

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