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2-D Shape Patten Placemats

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify and form a pattern out of 2-D shapes, then transfer this pattern into creating placemats.
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Shapes Are Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use various shapes to identify polygons and understand symmetry. They explore pattern blocks noticing their similarities and differences, then share with other team members. They draw 3 polygons in their journals and...
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Basic Shapes

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students create books about shapes.  In this shape lesson, students select a topic such as points, lines, angles, planes, polygons, quadrilaterals, triangles, circles, and polyhedra.  In groups, they create an illustrated...
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Geometric Shapes

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students identify polygons.  In this geometric shape lesson plan, students explore the characteristics of polygons.  They identify polygons, and classify triangles according to their sides and angles.  Students create a...
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Pennsylvania Department of Education

Build What I've Created

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
n this geometric lesson, students define and identify two dimensional shapes based on their attributes. They complete worksheets based on the geometric concepts.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
It's amazing the complex figures that can be made using only a few simple shapes. Following a class reading of the children's book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, young mathematicians use sets of tangrams to create models...
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EngageNY

Describing Center, Variability, and Shape of a Data Distribution from a Graphical Representation

For Teachers 6th Standards
What is the typical length of a yellow perch? Pupils analyze a histogram of lengths for a sample of yellow perch from the Great Lakes. They determine which measures of center and variability are best to use based upon the shape of the...
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Guess My Shape

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students describe shapes to other students who have to guess that shape. In this shape lesson plan, students describe shape attributes to other students. Then those other students have to guess the shape that is being described to them....
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Identifying Geometric Shapes: Hexagon, Polygon, or Heptagon

For Students 5th - 6th
In this identifying geometric shapes instructional activity, students mark 12 multiple choice pictures of shapes as hexagons, polygons or heptagons.
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Find the 2D shape

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this 2D shapes worksheet, students find the rectangular prism, triangular prism, pentagon, and triangle. Students have 3 shapes to choose from in each of the 4 problems.
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Shapes

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this shapes worksheet, students trace each of the 3D shapes and then write the name for the shape. Students complete 6 problems.
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Connecting With Coordinates

For Teachers K - 2nd
Play a coordinates game to encourage collaborative learning and grid use! Learners plot points on grids and play a game that challenges them to locate a specific point on a coordinate grid by using horizontal and vertical movements.
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Symmetry Using Polygons

For Students 8th - 10th
Working on symmetry in your class? If so, this instructional activity might be for you. Learners observe different triangles and quadrilaterals, determine which are symmetrical, draw in the lines of symmetry, and color the symmetrical...
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Geometry Practice: Classifying Solids #2

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In this solids worksheet, students identify the characteristics of solids. They name solids and determine the number of faces. This three-page worksheet contains seventeen problems. Answers are listed on the last page.
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State of Michigan

Pre-K Mathematics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Kick-start children's education with this pre-school math unit. Offering 31 different hands-on learning activities that develop young mathematicians' pattern and shape recognition, basic number sense, and much more, this is a...
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I Spy Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game in which they name geometric shapes. In this geometric shape instructional activity, students ask "yes and no" questions to determine which shape one of their classmates has chosen. They ask questions that lead them...
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Combine Plane Shapes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students examine 3 shapes and then select the blocks that they would use to build a similar shape.
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Folding to Make Shapes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify different polygons and their attributes. In this geometry lesson, 2nd graders get to know polygons by studying the vocabulary and finding polygons in their classroom. They create these shapes and then find their...
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2D Shapes Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this 2D shapes quiz worksheet, students use their math skills to respond to 10 short answer questions pertaining to 2D shapes.
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A Shapely Activity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore polygons in various shape activities. For this polygons lesson, 5th graders discuss and identify polygons by their number of sides. Students sort ceramic tiles by the number of sides on each piece. Students explore...
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Names of 2D Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this 2D shapes worksheet, students fill in the blanks to name and describe the following four 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
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Professor Panda's Puzzle of Shapes

For Students 5th
In this number puzzle worksheet, 5th graders use multiplication and division to fill in the missing numbers. They examine a key and fill in the shapes with the numbers that make each puzzle true.
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Corners and Sides

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
In this corners and sides worksheet, learners, with a partner, explore and calculate the answers to six word problems that involve a variety of different geometric shapes.
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K12 Reader

3-D: It’s Not Just for Movies

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
This two-part reading comprehension exercise asks kids to read a short passage about cubes, rectangular prisms, spheres and pyramids, and then to respond to a series of questions about the article.

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