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Building Homes
Students investigate architecture and construction by building a home from cardboard tubes. In this housing lesson plan, students collaborate in groups to plan and create buildings they can fit in made from cardboard tubes,...
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Soaring Towers
Students build towers from recycled materials. in this building instructional activity, 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...
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Let's Explore the World of Triangles and Quadrilaterals!
Second graders explore the features of triangles and quadrilaterals. In this lesson on triangles and quadrilaterals, 2nd graders rotate with their group to five different activities all exploring a different aspect of geometry.
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Cutting Corners
Second graders examine two-dimensional shapes using their characteristics. In this shapes lesson, 2nd graders identify similarities and differences by using cut out shapes, diagrams, mirrors, and graphic organizers.
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Tantalizing Tangrams
Learners construct a set of tangrams. For this geometry lesson, students read the book, Grandfather Tang's Story and retell the story using tangrams. Learners construct their own set of tangrams using the included worksheets.
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Symmetry All Around
Young scholars explore geometry by creating a quilt square. In this symmetry lesson plan, students identify a list of items, designs, insects and animals which have either rotational or line symmetry. Young scholars investigate...
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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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Geometry Shapes
Students create various geometric shapes with their younger grade "buddy partners." They identify and discuss various geometric shapes, and using gumdrops or marshmallows and toothpicks, construct different flat and three-dimensional...
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Twenty Green Gates
Second graders explore mathematics by participating in a pattern building activity. In this geometric construction lesson, 2nd graders discuss a story problem in which a gate needs to be built from triangles and trapezoids up to a...
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Shape All Around
Students investigate solid shapes. In this geometry instructional activity, students take pictures of solid shapes and classify their pictures according to the vocabulary terms: edge, face and vertex. Students present their findings...
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Grandfather Tang's Story
Students construct tangram patters. In this geometry lesson, students read the book Grandfather Tang's Story and visit various websites to practice covering figures with tangrams. Students attempt to construct animal shapes using puzzles.
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Investigation: Shape Balance
Second graders explore geometry by utilizing pattern blocks. In this shape identification lesson, 2nd graders view the characteristics for several different geometric shapes and create them using building blocks and other classroom...
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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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Can You Name That Shape?
Learners use materials to build, investigate, and draw two-dimensional shapes (polygons). They combine the shapes they have built and draw from the pile to begin a round-robin activity to name and determine the attributes of a selection...
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Cross Country Adventure
Students practice measurement and geography in this lesson. They build a Lego vehicle using an RCX. They predict how many seconds it will take their vehicle to reach a specific state on the United States of America map that each group of...
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Does the falling tree make a sound if no one if there to hear it? (or communication via encryption)
Young scholars 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...
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Investigating Tessellations in 2 Dimensions
Students analyze tessellations. In this geometry lesson, students discover which shapes can or cannot be used to create a tessellation. Students watch a video, then create their own tessellations.
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Our Geometic World
Young scholars 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...
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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 instructional activity.
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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, students build a cube by matching colored square faces to a correct word. Students then...
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Odd Thing Out
Students listen to the math problem provided and work in groups to solve. They think about the objects and write down their information in a table. Class construct the table on a large piece of paper that can be put on the wall after the...
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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.
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