Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mystery Polygon

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe a polygon in the form of a riddle.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geo Jammin'-Day2, Lesson 7: Roll, Roll, Unroll the Scroll

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders write in journals, recording personal thoughts about what they learned and/or something they are wondering about.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Efficiency Means Getting More for Less

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students measure water and make predictions about efficiency.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geo Jammin' - Day 2, Lesson 5: Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students, in groups, use song lyrics and math to descrie two and three dimensional shapes.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Geo Jammin' - Day 3, Lesson 9: Attribute Attitude

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders read poetry and build their vocabulary through use of the puppet Geo George.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

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.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Scales Problems

For Students 4th - 8th
In this scales worksheet, students find the weight of the shapes on the scale by comparing it to the other side, and make up their own problems. Students complete 5 sets of problems.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometric Shadows

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners will identify objects as translucent, transparent, or opaque. Upon seeing the shadow of the opaque object, students will identify the geometric figure created by the shadow.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Perimeters, Areas, and Slopes Oh, My!

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students create geometric figures, and use analytic and coordinate geometry to investigate their attributes. They go through the process of proving that a quadrilateral is a parallelogram.
Activity
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Cutting Corners

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students will use their knowledge of plane figure attributes to create and view shapes by cutting and rotating shapes to stimulate discussions on names and attributes of various shapes they do not regularly encounter.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The instructional tool explores various geometric solids and their properties. Student can manipulate and color the different shapes. Learners examine the edges, faces, and vertices of the different solid figures.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Geometric Man

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
The students will explore angles, rays, line segments, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, and two-dimensional figures through the use of the book Shape Up! Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons by David A. Adler. They will also...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: No Fly Zone

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students calculate the probability that a spider web will catch a fly. The webs are modeled as standard geometric figures (circle, rectangle, triangle), and assumptions are...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Movin' on Up"

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Students will use their knowledge of scale factor to enlarge a picture to scale. They will then use PhotoStory to create a collage of their pictures. This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and Science...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: What's My Ratio?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students use linear measurement and calculators to investigate proportionality and determine the constant ratio between similar figures.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Copying an Angle

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Explore relationships (including congruence and similarity) among classes of two- and three-dimensional geometric objects, make and test conjectures about them, and solve problems involving them.
Lesson Plan
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Parallelograms: Discovering Their Properties

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Students use the TI-89 with CABRI Geometry to discover properties of parallelograms. They will construct a figure and use the definition to discover the figure is a parallelogram.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Give Me a Hand or Leaf Me Alone

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students' find the surface area of geometric shapes cut from card paper and relate it to its mass. They use this data to find the surface area of irregularly shaped objects.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Have Your Math and Eat It, Too!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this two-day lesson plan, students will collaborate to create a healthy pizza using only geometric items that have been precisely measured. Students must identify the items as triangle, quadrilateral (parallelogram), or cube. Next,...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Rotations in the Plane Cabri Jr: Interactive

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, you will explore the invariant properties of rotations and the results of rotations in the coordinate plane.
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Connecting Translations, Reflection, and Rotations

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
In this activity, students will investigate the relationship among the three types of rigid transformations - translations, rotations, and reflections.
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Volume of a Cube

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
"The volume of a cube can be developed by considering unit cubes, a single row (longs) of unit cubes or a single layer (flats) of cubes using this applet." This easy software makes it possible to easily construct a cube and take it...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Can Shapes Be

For Teachers K - 1st
This is a hands-on instructional activity that will help students explore shapes in their environment. Students will work in diverse groups to complete this activity. Students will make a class book of their findings.This lesson plan was...
Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Drawing on Your Knowledge

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this activity, students will understand the basic geometric concepts of parallelism and perpendicularity, and will also able to use rectangular coordinates to make congruent objects. They will display understanding of parts of...