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Sort Shapes
In this sorting shapes instructional activity, students learn to recognize shapes within word problems and then sort them according to their characteristics. Students solve six word problems.
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Make New Shapes
In this making shapes worksheet, students sharpen their problem solving skills as they solve 6 story problems that require them to investigate shapes.
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Sand & Water: Shape Search
Students act as amateur archaeologists as they participate in their own "dig" to explore and record unusual shapes. In this shape exploration lesson, students use trowels and shovels to dig, and learn to sift the dirt with screens to...
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Combine Plane Shapes
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students examine 3 shapes and then select the blocks that they would use to build a similar shape.
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Hidden Shapes
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students use problem solving skills to find as many squares and rectangles as they can hiding in larger shapes.
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Where Do I Belong? Shape Activity
In this shape instructional activity, students color shapes that belong with a group, and write an X on shapes that do not. A variety of shapes are used, 6 sets total.
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Patterns With Shapes and Positions
In this pattern worksheet, learners look at patterns and draw missing shapes, total of 5 patterns using squares, circles, triangles and rectangles.
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Pretzel Mania
In this activity, students enhance their number and letter recognition. Students make letters and numbers with pretzel dough. Students prepare the pretzel dough, shape it, bake it, and eat it. In this activity, students test their...
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Shape Patterns
In this patterns problem solving activity, students examine 4 shape patterns and then draw the two shapes that should come next in each pattern.
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Challenge: Square and Circle
In this shape instructional activity, learners color squares orange, circles blue, and count and write the numbers of each shape present. A clown is shown juggling the shapes.
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Find and Color
In this early childhood shape recognition learning exercise, students find circles, triangles, and rectangles in a picture and color them according to the instructions. Students graph the number of each of the 3 shapes on the provided...
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Who Am I?
In this early childhood shape problem solving learning exercise, students determine the 4 shapes that are described. Student also respond to 1 short answer question.
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Sort Plane Figures
In this sorting plane figures worksheet, students use their problem solving skills to identify the figures that follow the sorting rule in 6 problems.
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Color It
In this shape recognition worksheet, students follow the instructions as they color cylinders, spheres, cones, cubes, and prisms the appropriate colors. Students also respond to a short answer question.
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Slides, Flips, and Turns: Homework
In this shape recognition worksheet, students learn to move a shape in different ways by sliding, flipping, or turning it. Students trace a triangle on paper, cut it out, and complete the directions for moving and drawing the shape.
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Shapes and Tools
Students learn about both geometric shapes and the importance of tools as key elements in building. In this categorizing and counting lesson, students define geometric shapes and complete a matching activity to practice using their...
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Bonus Activity: Build a House
Students complete a building activity using their knowledge of geometrical shapes, tools, and how to follow a plan from previous lessons in this unit. In this following directions lesson, students study the basic building process as it...
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Combine and Separate Shapes
In this shape worksheet, learners read word problems related to shapes, then use blocks to solve them. Houghton Mifflin text is referenced.
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Math Quilts
Young scholars examine geometric shapes. In this geometric shape lesson plan, students examine how geometric shapes flip, turn, and slide to create a pattern. Young scholars analyze the role that quilts played in helping slaves escape...
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Match One to One
In this matching shapes worksheet, students use pattern blocks to match the shapes one to one. Students then draw the pattern blocks that matched.
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What Comes Next in the Pattern?
In this early childhood shapes pattern worksheet, learners examine 5 patterns of square, circles and triangles and reveal the next shape that comes next in each of the 5 patterns.
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Shape Matching
In this shape recognition activity worksheet, students match the triangle, circle, rectangle, and square to the gifts, tree, and wreath that match.
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Shapes
In this shapes worksheet, students look at 3 different shapes, cut out the bottom 3 shapes and then paste them onto their matching shapes on the top of the worksheet.
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Matching Shapes
In this shapes worksheet, students recognize the 4 shapes drawn on each leaf, cut out the 4 dotted shapes at the bottom of the worksheet and then paste each shape to their matching shape on each leaf.