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I Walk the Line

For Teachers K
Students walk, run, jump, and hop all over and around geometric shapes. They identify the shapes by running to and standing on the called out shape.
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When is a Block, not a Block?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students use a stamped shape image to create a piece of imaginative art. In this stamped art lesson, students use a stamped shape as a starting point to create their own imaginative piece of art that incorporates the stamped shape.
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Geometry House!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use computer drawing tools to create a house of geometric shapes.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners 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.
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Artsy Insects

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify and describe the elements of art and principles of design by creating several different butterfly pictures that represent color, shape, texture, pattern or symmetry.
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Where is Triangle?

For Teachers K
Students listen to songs to discover different shapes. They tape the shapes to their fingers and when they sing about that shape they are to show the shapes to each other.
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Shapes and Colors: Blue Ovals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this shape worksheet, students trace ovals and color them blue, then trace and color ovals on a picture of a crown. Worksheet is part of a site with links to additional activities.
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Cut and Paste Balloons

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
For this color recognition worksheet, learners color the three different balloons by the colors red, yellow, and blue. Students cut the circles out and paste them into the picture.
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Fun in the Sun

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students freeze colored water. In this art lesson, students take the blocks of ice out of the freezer, put the blocks into a small pool and watch the ice melt.
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Running Colors

For Teachers K
Students play a game with mats of different shapes and colors spread out over a playing area. As a shape and color is called out students run the the corresponding mat and stand on it.
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Learning Phonics Worksheet: Consonants and Vowels 1a

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this coloring consonants and vowels activity, students color the shapes that have consonants in them red. Students color the shapes that have vowels in them blue.
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Toothpick Art

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students review primary colors and practice making straight lines. In this visual arts lesson, students paint simple shapes as large as a toothpick, using specific primary colors. During the construction of the shapes students are...
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FUN-damental movement!

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students move within the gymnasium area while working on color/shape recognition, change of speed and directional movements, and cooperation/teamwork. In this FUN-damental movement lesson, students work in partners on a treasure chest...
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Investigating: Finding the Volume

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders explore geometry by utilizing colored cubes in class. In this volume lesson, 6th graders identify the different shapes they can create using their colored cubes and identify the formula for finding volume. Students create...
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Hamburger Collage

For Teachers K - 1st
Students review shapes and their cutting skills by making a hamburger collage. In this shapes lesson plan, students identify shapes that make up the food in a hamburger, cut out the food from construction paper, and create a collage out...
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Navajo Rug

For Teachers K
Students explore geometry in Navajo rugs. In this shape art lesson, students create a Navajo rug design using triangles and squares. Students investigate designs on the Internet and then create an original design.
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Symme"tree"

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students practice drawing lines of symmetry after the teacher draws shapes on the board. They create a class symme"tree" using only symmetrical shapes to decorate it.
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Penguins

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students read books, learn about the letter p, and eat goldfish crackers all to learn about penguins. In this penguins lesson plan, students also color black and white pictures of penguins.
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Pattern Value Portraits with Light

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students use the elements of art and principles of design to explore value. In this color value activity, students use the portrait of a a face to help them understand color value, tints, shades and tones.
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Spring Egg

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Pupils create their spring egg out of construction paper. They design and complete a pattern on their egg made of pastel colors. They share their egg design with the class.
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Autumn's Palette

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this Ranger Rick worksheet, students participate in a nature walk, observe the leaves, and sketch some of the leaf shapes they encounter. Students also respond to a question regarding the range of leaf colors they observe.
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Body Parts in Spanish

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students use Spanish to recognize and recall body parts. In this Spanish anatomy lesson, students identify and name the parts of the body in Spanish. Students describe a person physically by his hair and color of eyes. Students graph...
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Home Sweet Home

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students complete activities with the books Color Me Dark, The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, and The Great Migration North.  In this literature/History lesson, student read the story and discuss the plot. They analyze photographs taken...
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Investigating Different Rock Types

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners analyze a rock using their eyes and then a hand lens. In this science lesson, students determine and discuss how hard or how easy it was to find and classify the assigned rock. Learners record their observations on an index...