Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Calling all Shape Detectives! For this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
Activity
Other

Giraffian Kid's Stuff: Shapes and Colours

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Students can mix and match shapes and colors in this simple learning activity.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Shape Construction

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Drag shapes in this geometry and symmetry practice activity.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Match Me!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Shape Naming Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short activity designed as a starter for math class. Students are asked to match a shape to its name. Hints are provided that define each shape.
Interactive
Other

Ez School: Match and Extend the Pattern Using Basic Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An interactive activity where students choose the next shape in a simple pattern. Two levels of difficulty. Includes option of printing a worksheet.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Two Dimensional Shapes Identify and Match

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to analyze and compare various two-dimensional shapes according to the vertices, sides and parallel lines. It features "containers" created in Version 3 (can be used with...
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Other

Global Classroom: Kidspiration Math Templates

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Download the Kidspiration templates to be used as supplemental math resources. Templates include the following elementary math topics: fractional parts, ordering fractions, multiplication, place value, matching shapes, ordering numbers,...
Lesson Plan
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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Scholastic

Scholastic: I Spy

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
Website
Other

Pitara

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site from India provides a small collection of stories, poems, and activities that students can listen to online. In the activities section, students match animals with their shadows, answer vocabulary-related questions, and...
Lesson Plan
US National Archives

National Archives: Benjamin Franklin: Politician and Diplomat

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Benjamin Franklin was the only man to help shape all the major documents that established the United States. Learners will review those documents and match the correct document to its description. Upon completion, students will choose...
Activity
PBS

Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."