Students listen to a story "My Crazy Dream" with an intent to identify shapes in ordinary objects. They raise their hands when they've heard an object whose shape they can identify. They discuss their findings.

Second graders explore how musical instruments h ave varying geometric shape, and how those geometric shapes correspond to three-dimenaional shapes that students have studied.

Second graders participate in the Author's Chair, which is placed in the front of the room. The puppet, Geo George, asks students to take out their poems, then brings them to the Author's Chair individually to share their poems with the...

Second graders, given geometric instructions, try to create their own Geo George puppet.

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...

Learners examine and discuss math vocabulary. They participate in various games involving the math vocabulary. Use this as a supplement.

Second graders identify different polygons and their attributes. In this geometry instructional activity, 2nd graders get to know polygons by studying the vocabulary and finding polygons in their classroom. They create these shapes and...

Students discover the centroid of a triangle based on Euclid's constructions. They explore locus of points of a median. They understand properties of the segments that form the median and areas of the smaller sections formed by the median.

In this online interactive math skills instructional activity, students solve 10 multiple choice math problems regarding geometry skills. Students may view the correct answers.

Students create a classroom quilt that illustrates the many unique ways that students use math skills.

Second graders write a Math Moments journal.

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.

Students explore geometry by participating in a shape rotation experiment. In this symmetry lesson, students identify the term symmetry and a list of other geometry vocabulary. Students analyze shapes as they are turned 90 degrees and...

Fifth graders participate in a class activity that helps them learn some geometric terms along with their definitions. They describe relationships between two and three-dimensional shapes and analyze attributes and properties of...

Second graders write in journals, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about.

This site gives a description of edge along with a visual representation. Be sure to use the links to related terms, everyday examples, challenging problems, more information, and the interactive check point located in the left-hand column.

In this lesson, students will create cubes and identify the attributes of a cube, including discussion of edges, faces, vertices, and angles. Teacher resources are provided.

For this lesson, students will form cubes and discuss their attributes including edges, faces, vertices, and angles. Media resources and teacher materials are included.

Students will identify the attributes of shapes and use those attributes to draw and describe shapes. This instructional activity contains a detailed plan, pictures of student work, and videos of the instructional activity in action.

This site from the University of California deals with different applications and topics pertaining to triangles, particularly triangulation.