Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

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.
Unit Plan
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.
Unit Plan
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.
Interactive
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Market Place: 2 D Shapes and Patterns

For Students K - 1st
On this interactive site, students learn to identify squares, circles, and triangles.
Activity
NumberNut

Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols, and Colors: 2 D Shapes

For Students K - 1st Standards
Did you know that two-dimensional shapes are also called polygons? This lesson describes the various 2-D shapes and includes two interactive games to reinforce skills.
Unit Plan
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Name Shapes 3

For Students K - 1st Standards
Practice identifying circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, rhombuses, trapezoids, and hexagons. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

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.
Whiteboard
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: Pattern Block Template Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides a review of circle, rectangle, square, triangle, and hexagon and introduces trapezoid and rhombus. Students are asked to identify the number of sides and the number of corners of...
Website
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!
Interactive
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.
Interactive
Starfall

Starfall: Puzzles

For Students K - 1st
In this interactive students click on one of the black statues to break them down into shapes; then they reconstruct the statue by putting the puzzle pieces together, which shows the animal that it represents and replaces the statues...
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...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Tan Ii

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The Chinese character mark for Tan II (pronounced she-tow-bah) is the second of two lessons to introduce first grade students to geometry using tangrams. This instructional activity incorporates history, math, and language arts. In this...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Tan"

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The Chinese character mark formerly known as "Tan" is the first of two lessons to introduce first grade students to geometry using tangrams. This lesson plan incorporates history, math, and language arts. In this lesson plan students...
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Geometric Quilts

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students will create a class quilt of nine patch paper quilt blocks using geometry.