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Shapes are Everywhere

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders gain an understanding of geometric shapes and spatial reasoning. They learn the attributes of solid shapes in everyday activities. Students compare geometric shapes to everday objects, finding things that serve a purpose...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 14: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore characteristics of symmetry, write a definition, and locate the line of symmetry on a shape.
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Triangles and Things

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Young learners listen to the story book The Greedy Triangle as the teacher introduces new polygon shapes. They use geometric stencils to trace a quadrilateral, a pentagon, a hexagon, and an octogon onto a foldable notepad. They identify...
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Relations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students identify, compare, and analyze shapes and numbers. In this analogies and comparison math instructional activity, students warm up by completing 4 worksheets to familiarize themselves with analogies. In small groups, students are...
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Foil Fun

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders be having hands-on experiences with three-dimensional solid shapes. They investigate the features of solid shapes and examine the names for them. They are introduced to making nets for 3D shapes.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 15: The Quiltmaker's Gift

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students listen to a read aloud of The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau finding examples of symmetry in the illustrations in the book.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 1, Lesson 3: Math Moments on My Mind

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write a Math Moments journal.
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The Fun Art of Pasta!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Interesting shapes make noodles and other pasta a creative medium for children’s art
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Powerful Polygons

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners scan the classroom to find different common shapes. They listen as the teacher defines polygon and regular polygon. The teacher demonstrates regular polygons via the Internet and the "Math is Fun" web site. Students go outside...
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Tangram Geometry

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners listen to a story involving Tangram pieces. Students use Tangram pieces to complete shapes using an outline of a design.
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Symmetry Monsters

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars discuss and study the word symmetry. They examine letters of the alphabet, shapes, and artwork and decide if they are symmetrical or not. Then they create their own symmetry monsters.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 4: Transformation Station

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders manipulate triangles to discover the concepts of slides, flips and turns of a geometric shape.
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Geometric Glances

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders locate, comprehend, interpret, evaluate, maintain, and apply information, concepts, and ideas found in literature, the arts, symbols, recordings, video and other graphic displays, and computer files in order to perform...
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Mummies Made in Egypt

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use maps to locate information on Egypt, then create their own maps to display knowledge gained from the lesson and Web sites. They recognize, create, and describe the pyramid's geometric shape in three-dimensional forms.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read poetry and build their vocabulary through use of the puppet Geo George.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 6: Quilt Story

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students recognize that quilts are created by geometric components. They examine how quilts are an artistic art form that show the cultural heritage of the people who make them.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 6: Rhyme and Reason

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students listen to the poem "Shapes" by Shel Silverstein in order to accurately and specifically describe shapes' rules/traits in their journals. They illustrate the poem and take turns reading during a creative shared reading session.
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Triangles and Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore triangles and quadrilaterals. They rotate to various centers in the room to identify and examine triangles and quadrilaterals. After presenting a picture to the class, 2nd graders locate right angles, triangles...
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Length, Perimeter, and Area

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students explore the concepts of length, perimeter and area. Students develop an understanding of length, perimeter, and area. Students calculate the area and perimeter of random shapes and calculate the area and perimeter of a triangle...
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Extending Pattern Understandings

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learners use shapes and manipulatives to demonstrate patterns. In this patterns lesson plan, students also break up patterns to identify a pattern unit.
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 3, Lesson 13: Reflections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use current knowledge to predict the meaning of line of symmetry. They explore symmetry using mirrors.
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Fold and Cut

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore line symmetry and the names and attributes of two-dimensional mathematical shapes. They study the context by folding and cutting out shapes to make a series of mathematical shapes.
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Classifying Polygons

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students study polygons. In this math instructional activity, students play a game in which they learn the classification system for polygons. Students identify the properties of quadrilaterals.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 6, Lesson 20: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students use shape puppets to review geometry content. They take turns singing songs, reading students poems, reciting class bulletin board notes and choral poems. They prepare for their summative assessments through play and interview...

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