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Curated OER

Making and Describing Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore the concept of creating and describing 2D and 3D shapes.  Using geometry your scholars will describe the attributes of shapes and their properties.  They explore and discover what happens when you combine shapes and then take...
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PPT
Curated OER

2-D Shape Recognition

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
How many of 2-D or plane shapes can your class identify? Can they get them all? Little learners view and review the names of nine different shapes, such as rectangle, square, triangle, and circle, to name a few.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Applied Science: Exploring Shapes in Nature

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Explore geometry with your young mathematicians! First, have them color in different two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes. Then take them on a walk around the classroom. Can they identify different shapes using the target...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometry - Shapes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this shapes worksheet, students identify each shape by choosing the correct name. Students complete 8 multiple choice questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometry - Shapes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this shapes worksheet, students complete multiple choice questions where they identify the name of the shape given to them. Students complete 8 problems.
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Lesson Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Shapes and Measuring

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Youngsters develop mathematical vocabulary with this worksheet. First, give youngsters time to identify their vocabulary words in the picture provided. Then, as a group, practice saying the vocabulary words aloud. Finally, have learners...
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Illustrative Mathematics

Make Your Own Puzzle

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Puzzling over what geometry instructional activity to teach next? Look no further. This simple activity teaches young mathematicians how shapes can be decomposed into smaller figures, and how smaller figures can be assembled into larger...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Recognizing 3-D Shapes, Part 2

For Students K - 2nd Standards
Take your math lesson to another dimension with this lesson about 3-D shapes! First graders label cones, cylinders, pyramids, spheres, cubes, and prisms, and then count the number of each shape in a collective picture. A great way to...
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Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

All vs. Only Some

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd Standards
All shapes have certain defining attributes that set them apart from others. In order to understand this, young mathematicians look at examples and non-examples of triangles, rectangles, and squares, working as a whole class to create...
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Lesson Plan
Exploratorium

Geometry Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 4th
One of the nice things about geometry is that it's all around us. The lesson presented here has elementary schoolers go out to the playground to identify and name a variety of geometric shapes. They perform a "geometric scavenger hunt"...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometry, Shapes and Public Sculpture

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore characteristics of geometric shapes. They observe geometric shapes and forms in public sculpture. Students create a unique sculpture of their own using basic three dimensional shapes. Additional cross curriculum...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shaping Up with Nature at Black Bayou Lake

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students visit a local lake refuge and identify shapes they find in nature. They take pictures of the various shapes and use KidPix to draw shapes around the shapes in the pictures. They watch a slideshow of all the shapes found by their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Very Hungry Caterpillar - Teaching Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students identify two- and three-dimensional figures and associate them with real-world objects.  In this geometry lesson, students are read The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and complete several activities including a chart of...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometry Shape Man

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students analyze a man made out of geometric shapes. Students answer 12 questions about what shapes make up each part of the body. Included are squares, rectangles, circles and triangles.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes and Introduction to Geometry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students make a quilt. In this geometry lesson, students discuss patchwork quilts and learn some different geometric shapes and patterns that are commonly used. Students explore designs with triangles and squares and then make their own...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometric Shapes: Shapes in Everyday Items

For Students 1st - 3rd
Which item is shaped like a cone? Use this multiple-choice shape recognition worksheet to give students access to shapes in their everyday life. Four questions ask scholars to identify which of the pictured items is shaped like a sphere,...
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App
iMagine Machine

The Land of Venn - Geometric Defense

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
Young mathematicians use their geometry skills to save the Land of Venn in an engaging math game. A fun way to reinforce children's understanding of basic geometric figures and shapes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geometry Scavenger Hunt

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students hunt for hidden geometric shapes and compare the properties of various shapes. For this geometry lesson, students play a game of finding squares, circles, rectangles, and ovals that have been hidden around the classroom....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students practice identifying spheres, triangles, and rectangles and the difference between plane shapes and space shapes. They identify shapes in the classroom and complete activity sheets.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify attributes of different geometric shapes. In this geometry lesson, students view a  PowerPoint presentation on shapes and use attribute blocks to examine the corners and edges of each shape. Students work together to...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

2D and 3D Shapes

For Students 2nd - 4th
For this geometry worksheet, students draw 6 different shapes as requested by 6 specific directives in the circles provided. Students draw 2D and 3D shapes.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Tiling Tessellations

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students explore tessellations. For this shapes and geometry lesson, students describe the attributes of many of the shapes displayed on an Elmo. Students create examples of tessellations using pattern blocks.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Geometry: Shapes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this geometry/shapes activity, students select the shape in a row that is similar to a shape that begins the row, 4 rows total.
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Lesson Plan
Exploratorium

String Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
You'd never have guessed it, but simple pieces of string make a fabulous manipulative for the study of geometry! In the fine lesson here, young mathematicians use string to make a variety of polygons. Pupils sit in various configurations...

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