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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 1, Lesson 2: Dancing Duo
Second graders and teachers identify geometric vocabulary word by searching a geometry website. They create a Quilt Word Wall using the geometry words.
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Guide to Reading Prints
In this forensic science worksheet, students read a guide to analyzing fingerprint evidence and answer 3 short answer questions about it.
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Sea Ice: Cracking the Egg Code
Students study the egg code to learn about sea ice. In this sea ice activity, students discuss and view a diagram to learn about the egg code when describing sea ice and its thickness. Students work in groups to play a game using the egg...
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Coin Hunt and It's Variations
Pupils play a game designed to give them practice identifying coin names and values. They form two lines with coins spread out in between the teams and when the teacher calls out a coin, the two in front scramble to find the specified coin.
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Who's In The Fact Family?
Students study related addition and subtraction facts. In this math lesson plan, students use related addition and subtraction to solve problems. Students use manipulatives to explore fact families.
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Harriet's Halloween Sort
Students listen to the book, Harriet's Halloween Candy, and discuss the many ways Harriet sorted the candy from her trick-or-treat bag. They sort and classify individually wrapped candy.
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Fish Eyes Sort
Young scholars sort, classify and write about what characteristics they used to sort fish counters.
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Gingerbread Genius
Students sort gingerbread men, then identify the sorting rule that they used.
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Sorting Through Life!
Students sort and count objects. In this sorting skills lesson, students work in small group with various objects that can be sorted and counted in groups.
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Electric Circuits
Students explore energy by completing an electricity worksheet. In this conductors lesson, students define the energy related vocabulary terms circuit, electronics, conductor and semi-conductor before examining computer chips in class....
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Geology: Rock Hounds
Second graders read Byrd Baylor's book, Everybody Needs a Rock. In small groups, they examine rocks and list their characteristics. After writing down the descriptions on cards, the rocks are pooled together. Students then use the...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 5, Lesson 24: Read All About It!
Students listen to The Important Thing About Quilt Design and rewrite an original version using geometric terms.
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Manipulative Mania
Students explore tangram vocabulary and tangram designs, creating an art design that contains various geometric parts. They complete a checklist titled, Important Thing About a Quilt Design.
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Mary Had a Little Lamb
Learners examine the story Mary Had a Little Lamb. In this language arts lesson, students discuss the story and read companion poems. Learners identify the rhyming words in the story. Students discuss lambs and sheep.
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Discovering the Oasis
Fourth graders investigate riverbanks and oxbox ecosystem at the Truckee River. They observe the plants, animals, insects and water organisms located there. Students document water samples, flow and then categorize them in class. This...
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Classifying Candy III
Students create a classification tree based on grouping candy with eight different properties. This allows students to understand how living things are classified.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Attributes of Shapes
Students will identify the attributes of shapes and use those attributes to draw and describe shapes. This lesson contains a detailed plan, pictures of student work, and videos of the lesson in action.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Attributes of 3 D Shapes Part 2
Second graders will identify the attributes of 3D shapes and measure the edges in inches and centimeters. This lesson contains a detailed plan and videos of students engaged in the activity.
Other
The Alphabet of Art: The Attributes
An informative site explaining the attributes of art as well as other art terms.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Properties of Shapes
Identify and compare shapes based on their attributes. Shapes include triangle types, quadrilateral types, pentagons, and hexagons. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video...
University of Maryland
Education: Umd: Shapes
This is a complete lesson plan with objectives and rationale for learning shapes, followed by a tutorial and practice exercises. Given pictures of shapes, their definitions, and everyday examples, students determine simple shapes with...
CPALMS
Cpalms: Creating Shapes in Our World
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will work with 3-Dimensional shapes identifying attributes of the shapes and recreating them. Students will create, identify and describe 3-Dimensional shapes as part of the...
University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Don's Shapes [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the attributes of two-dimensional shapes.