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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Playing With Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a small lesson for 2nd grade math-geometry. Once students have been introduced to the key vocabulary terms in geometry, the teacher can reinforce those shapes, terms, and some...
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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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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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Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicacion Educativa

Red Escolar: Juegos De Matematicas

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Great elementary level math activities, organized by school grade. Activities are sometimes written in the form of teacher instructions, with pictures and examples. Others are written directly for students and can be done online or...
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Other

Design Build: Exploring the Fundamental Requirements of Structural Design [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
In this activity unit from the Science Teachers' Association of Ontario (STAO), students fold paper to explore the properties and shapes of materials that give structures their stability and strength. They record their ideas as they...
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape It Up Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Get your spy glasses ready! In this weeklong adventure, children will explore shapes and their attributes and use this knowledge to decode a secret message. Children will learn about two-dimensional (flat) and three-dimensional (solid)...
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Constructing Triangles

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use a "linkage strip" to build triangles with different side lengths. When you build a triangle, see if you can deform it into a different triangle while keeping the side lengths the same.
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Curated OER

Planes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
geometry
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Curated OER

Planes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
geometry
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University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Manipulatives for the Upper Elementary (Gr. 4 6)

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Many teachers find it more challenging to incorporate the use of manipulatives into their mathematics programs at the upper elementary or middle school grades. Activities using manipulatives are provided for grades four, five, and six...
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor: Deaf Interactivate: Tools (With Text and Asl)

For Students 1st - 9th
This collection of computational science resources discusses a variety of topics, from fractions to telling time to conducting scientific experiments. Videos provide narration in ASL. Requires Quicktime.
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math at the Grocery Store

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make grocery shopping a mathematical experience. Parents and children explore a variety of math concepts through this collection of engaging math activities. Lesson are presented in varying levels of difficulty, offer "Parent Pointers"...
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US Department of Education

Helping Your Child Learn Math: Math in the Home

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An excellent compilation of activities that engage parents and children in math explorations at home. Detailed lessons covering a wide range of math topics such as fractions, measurements, money, data collection, and math in newspapers....
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Don's Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the attributes of two-dimensional shapes.
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Half and Half [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of one-half in a geometric context.
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Harvard University

Harvard Smithsonian: Everyday Classroom Tools

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The focus of this series of lessons is to engage students in an exploration of the world around them. The emphasis is on inquiry as students learn about the earth, sun, light, shapes and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Shape Stretch

For Teachers 1st
This module features a lesson plan for shapes. Teachers of thie lesson will engage their students in a game that requires the use of balance, movement, and "shape" mathematical concepts.
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Other

Teachers on the Web: A Maths Dictionary for Kids

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
On this site from Aussie School House Teachers on the Web, an Australian K-6 teacher defines and illustrates more than 500 mathematical terms. It is a wonderful dictionary featuring clear and often interactive graphics, great colors, and...
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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

The Math Forum: Making Patterns

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore the literature connections, online activity, pencil and paper activity, and the manipulative investigation of patterns and geometric shapes on this page!
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Lord of the Crumbs

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Cookie Monster is Gobble in Lord of the Crumbs! Hone those executive functioning skills by practicing patience and strategies when you have to wait for something. Stop and think about what comes next in patterns and sort objects by color.
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ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Great Barrier Reef: Shapes: 3 D Objects & Position

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Join Mel and Alba and find out more about 3D shapes and the position of objects.

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