Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Venn Diagram Shape Sorter
Sort colored shapes into a Venn diagram based on various characteristics.
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Triple Venn Diagram Shape Sorter
Sort colored shapes into a three circle Venn Diagram.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spreadsheet Software: M3: L3: Can You Draw It? Working With Shapes
In Module 3 Lesson 3 of this course on spreadsheets, students learn how to insert shapes into a spreadsheet and enhance them by resizing, rotating, changing line width, adding color and text, etc. Includes slideshow tutorials.
Other
Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
Other
Bright Hub Education: Two Dimensional Art Activities
You don't have to be a trained artist to create beautiful two and three-dimensional art projects with your preschoolers. Many simple activities, such as painting and coloring, can be modified to include sensory elements to increase...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity 1: Seeing Light and Color
This activity focuses on using a box and a ball to experiment with light, shadows, and color. The goals are: Practice looking at light and shadow; Analyze how lighting influences the shape (soft/hard), color (hue) and value...
Other
Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids
The instructional tool explores various geometric solids and their properties. Student can manipulate and color the different shapes. Learners examine the edges, faces, and vertices of the different solid figures.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Tops
In this lesson make a spinning top to explore the concepts of shape, color, spinning, and optical illusions.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has learners identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Isometric Drawing Tool
This site includes an interactive math tool to create drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. Rotate and color your drawings, and view them in 3D or 2D.
University of California
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Cotton Pickers by Romare Bearden
The Berkeley Art Museum publishes an activity based on Romare Bearden's The Cotton Pickers that helps young learners identify the geometric shapes used in the composition. Also discusses the artist's use of color to evoke mood.
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Henri Rousseau Fantasy Jungle (Lesson Plan)
KinderArt provides a site with information on how to teach students art techniques. Students learn to recognize and identify foreground, midground and background. They also create a stylized drawing using simple shapes as well as...
Kinder Art
Kinder Art: Mondrian Style Painting (Lesson Plan)
At this site students are encouraged to create a Mondrian style painting which will consist of geometric shapes and primary colors.
Other
Handwriting for Kids
At this site students can improve their handwriting skills. It provides printable worksheets, lesson ideas, and interactive activities.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Hope Depot: Science Fair Central
Find advice on project ideas, project steps, presentation tips, classroom activities and more.
Teachnology
Teachnology: A Variety of Printable Handwriting Worksheets
Use this resource to print activities and worksheets for handwriting.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Light and Colors
Discover the relationship between light and colors in this brief lesson. Links to related color identification activities, Color Memory Challenge and Identifying Colors Quiz. Immediate feedback given to responses that includes...
Other
Interactive Pattern Blocks
A colorful, engaging site where students can manipulate pattern blocks to create patterns or pictures. Included in the detailed directions are possible activities and a feature that allows you to email your patterns to a friend.
abcteach
Abcteach: Birds
[Free Registration/Login Required] Come and check out this resource featuring printable materials on birds. This site includes poems, shape books, questions for reading comprehension and more.
NASA
Nasa: The Space Place: Make Asteroids You Can Eat
This site from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration provides an interesting activity on making asteroids. "Create your own odd-shaped asteroids out of plain old mashed potatoes. Bake them in the oven to turn them asteroid...
