Curated OER
Pasta Research
Third graders read the story STREGA NONA together as a class and discuss what they know about pasta. They each receive pieces of pasta to glue down on construction paper and write beneath each one what they think it looks like.
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University of Texas
Inside Mathematics: Quilt Making [Pdf]
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the concept of two dimensional shapes and their properties.
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape It Up Activity Plan
Get your spy glasses ready! In this weeklong adventure, children will explore shapes and their attributes and use this knowledge to decode a secret message. Children will learn about two-dimensional (flat) and three-dimensional (solid)...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Making Rock Candy
In this video segment from Cyberchase, two friends make rock candy while learning about 2-D and 3-D shapes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Guess My Shape
The students will make the connection between 2-D and 3-D shapes using modeling clay and geometric solids and participate in an interactive web instructional activity. Students will make predictions about what 2-D shape they think will...
NumberNut
Number Nut: Shapes, Symbols and Colors: Three Dimensional Shapes
Describes the basic three-dimensional figures students will encounter in elementary Math and in the world around them, and makes mention of a few unusual ones.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Shape Changing With the Cyber Squad
In this project, you will make 2-dimensional templates, called nets, that fold up into 3-dimensional (3-D) shapes. By making shapes of different sizes, you will be able to see how 3-D shapes change with size. In your findings you will...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Max's Math Adventures: Max's Fantastical Zoo
Use this rhyming description of Max's Fantastical Zoo to make some amazing animals from geometric shapes. There is a teacher's guide for easy lesson planning.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: Making 3 D Solids
This tutorial features templates and instructions to make the following solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Copying an Angle
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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Making Boxes
Have fun and learn by making a box and then find out its maximum volume as well as other problem-solving activities, including making a table of your results and drawing a graph.
University of Regina (Canada)
University of Regina: Math Central: Lesson: Mr. Z's 5 Minute Game of Geometric Pandemonium
Students make a series of geometric drawings of points, obtuse angles, rays, polygons, and the like. Each child is given one but not allowed to show anyone else. The drawing is then taped to the back of the child in front of them. The...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Making Cuboids
How many different cuboids can you make? Learn how and learn how to represent data with your results.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Volume of a Cube
"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...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Geometry 3 D Shapes: Platonic Solids
Learn about platonic solids, a special type of polyhedra. Read a definition, make three-dimensional models using printouts, and play with an interactive animation, which will show you the faces, vertices, and edges on platonic solids:...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Three Cubed
Use the shapes provided and figure out how they fit together to make a 3 X 3 cube at this one page website. The solution is readily available right at the website.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: It's in the Bag
This lesson is a unique and fun way to review perimeter, angles, and types of adjectives. Students pick an object from the classroom that will fit in a paper lunch bag. They investigate their object and fill in the attached sheet. You...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Cubes Within Cubes
On this one page website sharpen your logic, geometry, spatial thinking, and problem solving skills while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Surface Tension With Soap Film
An investigation into the effect soap has on the surface tension of water. Students create three-dimensional shapes using toothpicks and clay, dip them into soapy water, and make observations and formulate questions about the soap film.