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E workshop.on.ca: Effective Instr in Math, K 3: Geometry & Spatial Sense [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This 455-page guide outlines and illustrates effective strategies for teaching geometry and related spatial concepts to children in kindergarten through grade 3.
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Link to Learning: Geometry and Spatial Sense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Geometry and Spatial Sense expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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Link to Learning: Geometry and Spatial Sense

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Link to Learning is a site popular among Ontario teachers. This collection of sites addresses Geometry and Spatial Sense expectations in the Ontario Math curriculum for Kindergarten to Grade 8.
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University of Waterloo (Canada)

University of Waterloo: Cemc: Geometry and Spatial Sense: Transformations [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Accompanied by links to online activities and demonstrations, students learn about the different types of transformations on a coordinate grid through this lesson plan. The lesson is designed to match the Grade 7 Ontario curriculum, with...
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Plane Math: Activities: Pie in the Sky

For Students 9th - 10th
Students work in groups to investigate weather and estimating cloud cover. The activity explores estimation, spatial sense, fractions, and patterns. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson overview,...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Animal Assistants Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K
The animals need help! In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will take the role of Animal Assistants and use their spatial skills to help save the day. Each section of this weeklong adventure is introduced by a video clip or...
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Teacher's Lab: Shape and Space in Geometry

For Students 6th - 9th Standards
Online activities are given to explore space and shape in geometry.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Cubes Within Cubes

For Students 3rd - 4th
On this one page website sharpen your logic, geometry, spatial thinking, and problem solving skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Tessellations Geometry and Symmetry

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This lesson plan deals with tessellations and their geometric concepts. Upper elementary and middle school students will also explore polygons, symmetry, analyze patterns and explore the role of mathematics in nature and culture.
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PBS

Pbs: Mathline: Tessellations Wow! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An integrated geometry instructional activity on spatial sense in which students identify and use different shapes to create a tessellation. "Through a variety of modalities such as writing, music, art, poetry, and literature, students...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Sidewalk Capers [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The objective of this lesson is for students to, "explore spatial relationships by determining the area of various shapes and creating tessellation patterns." Using a variety of hands-on activities, students apply concepts of geometry,...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Mirror, Mirror [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The goal of this PBS lesson plan is for young scholars to apply spatial reasoning, problem solving, and critical thinking skills to assess which regular polygons will tessellate. A detailed lesson plan that includes related worksheets,...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Geometry and the Geoboard

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
This site is a lesson plan for using a geoboard in a sixth grade geometry class. The activity serves as an introduction to the geoboard and its uses in geometry. Some topics the activity covers include helping to visualize shapes and and...
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TVOntario

Tvo Kids: Sandy Math Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Build the castles that the waves have crashed down by putting shapes in the right spot. Games focuses on geometry and spatial sense.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Geometry and Spatial Reasoning Quiz

For Students 3rd - 8th
This quiz consists of ten multiple-choice questions that focus on area, perimeter, ordered pairs, and angles. At the end of the quiz, a summary of the results is shown, and students may review missed questions.
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Figure This: Visualizing

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is seeing believing? Explore visualizing and spatial reasoning with three dimensional shapes in this challenge from the NCTM Math Challenge for Families collection. Discover why visualization is essential skill in real world situations.
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Shapely Tiling

For Students Pre-K - 1st
On this one page interactive website expand your logic, Motion Geometry and pattern recognition knowledge while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Geometry Line Vote

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson the teacher will use geometry and spatial sense to distinguish between point, ray, line, line segment and angle. The students will review vocabulary for these terms and then...
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Math Slice

Math Slice: Solid Slice Special Test

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A ten-question test for assessing geometry concepts with solid figures. This assessment is scored online providing students with immediate feedback. Great for use as an assessment tool.
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Success Link

Success Link: Flying Into Spring

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Here are two lesson plans that apply geometric concepts to design objects. The first involves students as a group following step by step instructions on making a kite. After the review of geometry vocabulary, in cooperative groups the...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline Lesson Plan: Struts'n Stuff [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Incorporating concepts in algebra, number sense, patterning, data collection, and geometry, this instructional activity engages students in various hands-on activities to explore the relationship between regular polygons and the number...
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Success Link

Success Link: Symmetry Activity

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
Use this lesson plan to assess students' understanding of symmetry and their ability to express that understanding both in writing and with paper.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Saxon Activity Center Real World Investigation: The Geometry of Quilts [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Investigating designs and shapes in quilts around the world is the activity in this internet exploration. Learners will also design their own quilt on paper or on the computer. Acrobat Reader required.

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