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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Holt, Rinehart and Winston: Homework Help Independent Practice: Scaling Three Dimensional Figures
Get independent practice working with scaling three-dimensional figures. Each incorrect response gets a text box explanation and another try. Correct responses are confirmed.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Drawing 3 Dimensional Figures
In this activity, students learn to draw a three-dimensional figure using Isometric Dots in the Explorer Draw App on the calculator. They also find the area and volume of a rectangular prism. [Requires Adobe Reader.]
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Estimating Measurements/using Models and Formulas: 3 D Figures
Given application problems involving 3-dimensional figures, the student will estimate measurements, including surface area and/or volume, then solve the problems.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Ask Dr. Math: Faq, Geometric Figures
This page brings you to a table of contents of three-dimensional figures. Selecting a figure will bring you to a page defining and illustrating the figure with applicable formulas listed.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Identifying and Naming 3 D Figures
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on identifying and naming three dimensional figures.
NumberNut
Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols and Colors: Three Dimensional Shapes
Describes the basic three-dimensional figures students will encounter in elementary Math and in the world around them, and makes mention of a few unusual ones.
Primary Resources
Primary Resources: 2 D and 3 D Shapes
Here is a huge collection of teacher resources for teaching 2-D and 3-D shapes. Includes smartboard and PowerPoint presentations, as well as worksheets and helpful hints.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Defining Geometric Figures
This site provides an in-depth definition of a two-dimensional figure and a three-dimensional figure. Related terms include arcs, vertices, polygon, and many more.
Government of Alberta
Learn Alberta: Math Interactives: Exploring Surface Area, Volume, and Nets
Investigate the concepts of area, volume, 3D shapes, and nets using this interactive Learn Alberta math. The solid shapes focused on this exploration include rectangular and triangular prisms, rectangular and triangular pyramids,...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Investigating and Applying Dimension Changes: Volume
The student will describe the effects of changing one or more dimensions on the volume of a 3-dimensional figure.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Shapes
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
Other
Nearpod: Three Dimensional Shapes
In this lesson, students will learn to identify three-dimensional shapes by name and distinguish between two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
Other
Nearpod: Represent Three Dimensional Figures With Nets
In this math activity, students will practice and strengthen their ability to express a sum using the distributive property by completing example problems with a Draw It activity.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Three Dimensional Figures
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart describes the characteristics of polyhedrons and asks students to classify figures according to the number of vertices, faces, and bases of the figures.
Other
Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Learn Ar: Maths: 3 D Objects
A learning resource that incorporates augmented reality (AR), using a camera, where students explore the volume and surface area of 3-D figures. The home page for this site has a PDF resource that explains how AR works and provides...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Street Orchestra: 3 D Space
Join Allegro in his street orchestra and learn about 3D shapes.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Prisms and Pyramids
On this interactive website students practice various math skills including naming prisms and pyramids, drawing cross sections of prisms and pyramids, and exploring three-dimensional views.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway:use Proportional Relations to Find Missing Measurements 2 D Figures
Given pictorial representations and problem situations of 2-dimensional figures or 3-dimensional figures, the student will use proportional reasoning to find a missing measurement.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Wizards: 2 D and 3 D Shapes
Students will create a model of a three-dimensional shape and create tessellations on a computer using two-dimensional shapes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Math + Arts: Shapes Into Sculptures
In this lesson, students will identify 2- and 3-dimensional shapes as well as create shape drawings and sculptures. Teacher materials are available.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 9.5 Modeling in Three Dimensions
Explore connections between a 2-dimensional net and a 3-dimensional box. Later in this section, use equations with variables to solve real world problems that use 2 and 3-dimensional objects.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Describing and Drawing Cross Sections
Given a verbal and/or pictorial description of the intersection of a plane with various three-dimensional geometric figures, the student will describe and/or draw the intersection.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Counting Flat Surfaces in Various 3 D Shapes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on how to count the number of faces in various three dimensional shapes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Searching Solid Shapes
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for students to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....