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"School Shape Scavenger Hunt"
Students, in groups, venture onto the schoolground on a scavenger hunt for shapes. They are given tasks: recorder, team leader, presenter, reporter, and behavior guidelines and a time limit. They search the school for shapes found in...
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Revise Identifying 3-D Shapes pg 2
3-D shapes identification is the focus of this geometry worksheet. Students determine the name of eight different 3-D shapes. Answers appear at the end of the worksheet.
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Blocks in a Sock
First graders identify geometric solids. In this shapes and solids beginning geometry lesson, 1st graders reach into a bag and identify the geometric solid they feel. Students describe shape attributes and match two dimensional shapes to...
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Identifying Creatures
Young scholars use a classification key from a provided worksheet to identify creatures. This task assesses student's abilities to interpret data, make decisions, identify, and classify.
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Science: Identifying Properties of Matter
Students observe a demonstration of the the three forms of matter - air, water, and solids - in plastic bags. After discussing the properties, they transfer them to a Venn diagram. Finally, students identify five items in the classroom...
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Shapes Show It
Students use art to express emotion. For this visual arts lesson, students explore the use of various colors and shapes in an effort to express emotions displayed in the Twelve Labors of Hercules. Students use the computer program...
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Identifying and Describing Polygons
Students identify the different properties of polygons. For this geometry lesson, students differentiate between polygons and non-polygons. They review important vocabulary to help them understand the properties of polygons.
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Lines and Shapes
First graders identify different kinds of lines found in common shapes. They discover ways in which an artist utilizes lines in a painting.
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Geometry and Shapes
Fourth graders are asked to name different shapes.Four to five students to share their answers with the class. The teacher leads the discussion in geometry about the properties associated with shapes.
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How 9/11 Shaped U.S. Foreign Policy
Students discuss the U.S. foreign policy and the components they consider important. They read and discuss President George W. Bush's speech of November 10, 2001. Students locate and mark countries President Bush identified in his speech...
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Identify Faces of Solid Figures
In this identifying faces of solid figures activity, students solve each of the 6 problems that require them to identify the faces of a cylinder, box, cone, and pyramid.
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Arkansas History Lesson Plan: Identifying Arkansas on a Map
Students investigate their hometown of Arkansas. In this U.S. Geography lesson, students identify Arkansas on a map and distinguish it form the other states. Students investigate the history, state line, and personal experiences that...
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Shape Capture Game
In this shape capture game learning exercise, 8th graders work in pairs to plot quadrilaterals, then guess ordered pairs for each other's shape in order to locate the vertices on the grid; can be used with other shape as well.
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Downtown Landmarks: geometry on Firstside
In this geometry worksheet, students look at a picture of downtown landmarks and identify different shapes, lines, and more. Students identify 18 items.
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Same Size
Learning how identify similar shapes is an important skill for students to acquire. In this shapes and sizes worksheet, students look at the colorful shapes in each of 3 rows and circle the shape in each row that is the same size as the...
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Patterns
In this shape patterns instructional activity, students identify the shapes within each set and draw the missing shapes to complete the 11 patterns.
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Patterns
In this shape patterns worksheet, students identify the shape patterns within each example and draw the missing shapes to complete the 14 patterns.
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Patterns
In this shape patterns learning exercise, students identify the shapes in the 12 examples. Students then draw in the missing shape to continue the pattern.
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Patterns
For this shape patterns activity, students identify the shapes in the 13 problems and draw the shape that continues the patterns.
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Lesson Five: Identifying Christmas Trees
Stuudents distinguish between pines, spruces and firs they may see in their homes, by recognizing key characteristics such as shape, arrangement of needles and colouring. They recognize these same characteristics in trees growing outside.
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Sizes Worksheet-Shorter
In this worksheet on space and size, students are given a set of 3 basic shapes to identify. Students then reproduce the shape, making it shorter than the original. Worksheet is formatted as a simple graphic organizer.
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Identify Similar Figures
Learners explore the concept of similar figures. For this similar figures lesson, students develop the idea that similar figures are a different size but the same shape by comparing similar rectangles. Learners use patty paper to trace...
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Geometry in the World of Art
Students review a variety of shapes on a geoboard. In groups, they use the internet to research the life and art of Wassily Kandinsky. Using his artwork, they identify the use of lines and shapes. To end the lesson, they create their own...
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Problem Solving Using Power Polygons
Students investigate geometric shapes by creating figures on a plane. In this polygon lesson, students complete a worksheet based on the angles in a power polygon. Students identify the different types of polygons and define their...