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Geometric Shapes

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Connect geometric shapes to your learners' lives with this worksheet. In order to complete this worksheet, young scholars must discover examples of triangles, squares, and circles at school, at home, and outdoors and list them on a...
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Drawing Basic Shapes

For Students 4th - 5th
Challenge your geometry class with this connect-the-dots activity! Scholars use a ruler to complete simple shapes through connecting dots in 6 shape-identification problems, and identify it from 4 choices: triangle, square, rectangle, or...
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National Security Agency

Classifying Triangles

For Teachers 4th - 8th Standards
Building on young mathematicians' prior knowledge of three-sided shapes, this lesson plan series explores the defining characteristics of different types of triangles. Starting with a shared reading of the children's book The Greedy...
Organizer
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Triangles

For Students 3rd - 7th
For this geometry worksheet, students will answer questions to determine if a shape is a triangle and if so, what type of triangle.
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Label the Pictures (Above, Behind, Below, Beside, In Front of)

For Students 2nd - 4th
A cross-curricular approach to prepositions includes a geometry aspect as learners label eight pictures of shapes to indicate their positioning. Each picture has two shapes, some with arrows to show which shape's location scholars are...
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Virginia Department of Education

Exploring Quadrilaterals

For Teachers 6th
Sort this resource into the Use pile. Scholars investigate attributes of quadrilaterals and then use the results to sort and classify the shapes labeling each figure with their properties to justify the classifications.
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Cut, Construct and Think 6

For Students 6th - 8th
In this geometry skills worksheet, students follow the provided instructions to cut out geometric shapes on the worksheet and build 5 shapes out of the pieces. Students also complete a graphic organizer regarding the shapes and their...
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Triangle Angle-Sum Theorem

For Students 5th - 8th
In this polygons worksheet, learners fill out a graphic organizer about the name of the polygon, the number of sides, the angle sums, and more. Students complete this for 5 polygons.