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Better Lesson: Assessment of Triangles

For Teachers 1st Standards
What better way to get to know your students than with a 1:1 interview. Today you will interview each student on their knowledge of triangles and their ability to separate them from other shapes.
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Better Lesson: Well That's Different!

For Teachers 1st Standards
Finding different combinations to cover a given pattern block is the idea of the day. Students will create pattern block shapes using other pattern blocks.
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Better Lesson: Student, Student, What Do You See?

For Teachers 1st Standards
Most bears are getting ready to hibernate this time of year. NOT IN MY ROOM! These little brown bears will be on the hunt for shapes they see.
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Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes

For Teachers 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
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Better Lesson: Making New Shapes With Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
My first graders have been studying the defining attributes of 2D shapes. They are going to love using toothpicks and marshmallows to present their knowledge of 2D and create 3D shapes.
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Better Lesson: Identifying Plane Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders begin to learn about plane shapes in Kindergarten. This lesson will serve as review of plane shapes' characteristics and extend into practice in categorizing shapes by defining attributes.
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Better Lesson: Looking at the Similarities and Differences

For Teachers 1st Standards
La, La, La, La, La, sing a happy song! You will be signing like a Smurf as students use their new founded knowledge of shape characteristics to participate in a whole group discussion and to successfully participate in geometric learning.
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Better Lesson: Introducing Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 1st Standards
A big word for a big idea! After being introduced to the term quadrilateral, the students will learn the characteristics of them and have an opportunity to create various quadrilaterals.
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Better Lesson: Talking About Triangles

For Teachers 1st Standards
Let's talk about shapes baby. Let's talk about vertices. Leeettsss talk about all the things that triangles need to be, Oh let's talk abbbooouuut shapes! It's not Salt N Peppa but you can get your groove on with today's triangle talk.
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Better Lesson: Assessing Composing and Decomposing Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
Knowledge in Action! Today you will find out if the students are understanding the idea of decomposing and composing shapes with pattern blocks.
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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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TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Two Quadrant Graph

For Students K - 1st Standards
Use this interactive white board activity to explore coordinate planes and graphing ordered pairs.
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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...
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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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Introduction to Logo Programming

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Excellent introduction to LOGO programming. Get started learning the basics of how to write procedures using the Logo programing language to get that "turtle" to move around and draw pictures. It sharpens your problem-solving,...
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University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: Nrich: Introduction to Logo Programming

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Excellent introduction to LOGO programming. Get started learning the basics of how to write procedures using the Logo programing language to get that "turtle" to move around and draw pictures. It sharpens your problem-solving,...
Graphic
Curated OER

Get Into Shapes

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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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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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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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Halves and Fourths

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this exercise, students practice identifying halves and fourths. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Composing Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this exercise, students practice composing shapes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Equal Parts of Circles and Rectangles

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this exercise, students practice identifying equal parts of circles and rectangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to get hints, watch a tutorial video, and try questions repeatedly.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Name Shapes 1

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice identifying circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Name Shapes 2

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Practice more challenging problems identifying circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.

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