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Exploring Shapes
Students practice moving over shapes they have designed. They work on trying to travel around the shapes while practicing their jumping and landing patterns.
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Math Who Am I?
In this math facts review learning exercise, students read the description of each math term and try to guess what the answer is. Students may check their attempts by circling the third letter in the box which gives the answer.
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One-Difference Classification Train
Students practice their classification skills through hands-on practice. Working in groups, students identify various ways in which similar items can be classified. Given a kit of similar items, students classify objects in multiples...
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Station Cards
Learners get to a station where they place a card inside the envelope that is stapled to construction paper. When you want students to move to a different station, hand them a different index card.
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Before and After Worksheet
In this before/after worksheet, students followed direction to color shapes that come either before or after others. A website reference for additional resources is provided.
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Comedia dell' Arte Paper Masks
Students create masks from the Italian Renaisance theatre and use them in one-act plays they write. they analyze the role and development of theatre in world cultures.
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Equality: Children's Rights
Students and parents participate in a variety of activities designed to help them explore the similarities and differences of people. They design and wear masks, sort attribute blocks, read stories, discuss the rights and...
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Line and Shape Game
Students create a picture of an actual scene or overlap the called out lines or shapes into a space-breaker. If someone calls out a line or shape a student had not planned to use in the art, they have to figure out some way to use it...
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Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 5: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo
Young scholars, in groups, use song lyrics and math to descrie two and three dimensional shapes.
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Coin Probability
Fourth graders, in pairs, receive three different types of coin bags. They pick coins out of the bag and tally what was picked fifteen times. They do it with all three bags for three separate tallies.
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Space Shapes
Students read "Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes" by Stuart Murphy and view a PowerPoint presentation on shapes. They identify shapes presented in the book and then identify shapes found in their classroom.
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Structural Comparisons
Young scholars study structural elements of a picture's composition. They scan images and compare the structural elements of the images.
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Elements of Art
Students explore three topics of elements of art in this seven lessons unit. An overview of light, space, figure, ground, pattern, balance and symmetry are presented in this unit.
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Project School
Pupils investigate different people, places and items throughout the school. They examine different places and discuss their uses. They collect the data and others can interpret it as they choose.
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Feel Your Way!
Students investigate the sense of touch as they examine the texture of items in the classroom and from their homes. They watch a computer based video about the senses and draw items that are rough, smooth, soft, and hard.
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Tessellations: Identify Common Shapes That Tessellate
Middle schoolers explore tessellations. They are shown a selection of shapes. Students identify shapes that tessellate and justify their answer. Middle schoolers create their own tessellation.
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Tessellations: Use Angles To Show That Shapes Will or WIll Not Tessellate
Students observe a selection of shapes. They identify which shapes will tessellate and justify their answer. Students apply the symmetry and angle properties of polygons to create tessellations.
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Tessellations: An Application of Simple Regular Polygons
Tenth graders identify homogeneous tessellations. For this model-based lesson, 10th graders make and identify homogeneous tessellations, both regular and semi-regular.
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Feltboard Storytelling
Students read African folktales and retell the story using feltboard. In this folktale lesson plan, students read the story Why the Sky is Far Awayand use feltboard to retell the stories.
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U.S. State Capitals Word Search
In this state capitals worksheet, students find a set of 8 state capitals in a word search puzzle. Capitals are found on the bottom of the page. A reference web site is included for additional activities.
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Parachutes: Is it Surface Area or Shape?
Students investigate how to make a good parachute. In this physics lesson, students observe the motion of parachutes as it falls and measure the time. They collect data and calculate the average descent time for each canopy shape.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Classify Objects as Rectangles, Squares, Circles, or Triangles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students practice classifying various two dimensional shapes as rectangles, squares, circles or triangles.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Classify Objects as Rectangles, Squares, Circles, or Triangles
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students watch a video and attempt practice problems on classifying rectangles, squares, circles and triangles.