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Symmetry that is Basic and Beautiful
Students explore lines of symmetry. For this symmetry lesson, students divide and combine shapes along basic lines of symmetry. Students explore symmetry in real life objects.
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Making Triangles
Students use interactive geoboards to identify simple geometric shapes. In this making triangles lesson plan, students describe the properties associated with geometric shapes. Students develop spatial sense and the mathematical...
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Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes
Students identify geometric solids. In this geometric shapes lesson, students listen to the teacher read Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy. Students then visit a web site where they identify types of...
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Say It With Shapes
Students create patterns with shapes and words. In this patterns and shapes lesson, students recieve an envelope with shapes with words on them. Students make patterns with the shapes that also create a poem. Students can add to the poem...
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Soaring Towers
Young scholars build towers from recycled materials. in this building lesson, students build the highest tower they can from varied materials. They focus on shapes and which items should go on the bottom to make a strong base.
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Imaginary Spaces: Designing a Play Space
Students apply their enthusiasm for imaginary play to create their own imaginary play space. In this novice architectural design instructional activity, students arrange and glue pre-cut foam shapes to a cardboard base to set up their...
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Symmetry All Around
Students explore geometry by creating a quilt square. In this symmetry lesson, students identify a list of items, designs, insects and animals which have either rotational or line symmetry. Students investigate symmetrical designs on the...
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Shape Hunt
Explore the world of shapes! After free tangram exploration and pair share time, learners describe various patterns and shapes in both the natural and designed world. They investigate the use of tangrams to create patterns and shapes.
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Shapes in Our World
Help your students explore shapes. They classify shapes and identify them in their everyday world. Plane shapes are explored, and they classify and identify the plane shapes.
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Samoan Siapo Bark Cloth
Students research designs of traditional Samoan Siapo bark cloth and identify the fabric's features. They reproduce traditional Samoan designs on a torn brown paper bag. Afterward, they solve the division and decoration of the area of...
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Mondrian, Math, and Amazing Colors
Students study geometric shapes, lines, and the primary colors as they create Mondrian-like art prints.
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The Long and Short of It - Geometry
First graders use appropriate vocabulary to compare the measurement of the animal he/she is drawing.
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Time Foldable
First graders listen to and discuss the book, The Time Song. In this math lesson, 1st graders discover what they can do in a second, a minute, and a hour. Additionally students create a flap book to display time equivalencies.
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Get into Shape
Shapes are so fun! Little ones explore, identify, and create shapes using tangrams or pattern blocks. The activity is intended to stimulate critical thinking while engaging learners through play and shape identification. Each child will...
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Does the falling tree make a sound if no one if there to hear it? (or communication via encryption)
Students explore encryption. They discuss the importance of cryptography in our daily lives. Students use games and cryptography to discover transformational geometry and modulo systems. They design their own encryption puzzles and...
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Shapes Galore!
First graders explore two-dimensional shapes. Individually, children follow directions to draw shapes. Learners use shaving cream, geoboards, yarn, marshmallows, and toothpicks to create shapes. As a class, 1st graders brainstorm...
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Geo-Wrap Vests
First graders use geometric shapes to create and extend patterns. Students read a book and view African garments. They identify patterns in the garments. Students create and decorate a paper vest with geometric patterns.
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Small and Large Squares
Young mathematicians classify squares according to attributes. They sort squares according to specific attributes. Students explore squares in repeating patterns and order squares according to size. Engaging extension activities are...
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Our Geometic World
Students walk around the neighborhood and identify various polygons and lines in buildings, nature and other objects. They design a building using various geometric patterns, shapes and lines. Students complete a descriptive writing of...
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Tour + Workshop = DESIGN: Shape
Ask elementary students to explore shapes in everyday objects. They will discuss the elements of design and describe the shapes they see in visual images. Students will then design and "build" a new 3D shape. Finally they will show and...
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Guess My Piece -working with Legos
Students participate in guessing their partners' hidden Lego pieces from their verbal clues. They work in partners to accomplish their goals. They are meeting a variety of math standards by completing this lesson.
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Faces of a Cube
Students identify and correctly name three-dimensional solids; cones, spheres, and cubes. In this three-dimensional figures lesson plan, students build a cube by matching colored square faces to a correct word. Students...
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Making Rectangles
Students study rectangles. In this math lesson, students use numbers, measurements and geometry to draw rectangles of varying sizes.
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Creating Polygons
Students describe, make and compare polygons. In this creating polygons lesson, students identify properties of quadrilaterals and describe common features of two dimensional shapes.