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Disney's Mickey Mouse Clubhouse "Daisy Bo Peep"

For Teachers K
Students watch an episode of Mickey Mouse's clubhouse, "Daisy Bo Peep". As a class, they are introduced to the proper words to describe location. They also identify the circle, square and triangle shapes and end the lesson by solving...
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Kid Garden Math

For Teachers K
Students design a geometric garden. Shapes to be included are squares, triangles, and hexagons. After reading a book together about shapes, students get to use construction paper to cut out and design their own shape garden.
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Identify Faces

For Students 4th - 5th
In this solid shapes activity, students learn to identify solid shape faces. Students identify the solid shapes and the faces in the six word problems.
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Triangles Introduction

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students explore geometry by drawing various shapes in class. In this triangle characteristics lesson, students identify the attributes that classify a shape as a triangle and practice using their bodies to create triangles in class....
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Concrete Biopoems

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students write a five line poem describing themselves in Spanish. They finish the poem by publishing it on paper that is cut into a shape that helps identify them.
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Concrete Poems

For Teachers 1st
First graders listen to several poems containing shapes as well as selected concrete poems. They brainstorm a list of their favorite things and then come up with ten words that relate to the top five things chosen by the students. They...
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Recognize Prisms

For Students 1st - 5th
In this shapes worksheet, students analyze 5 shapes and circle the ones that are prisms. Then, in the box provided, they write down the names of some prisms they have found. The answers are on the second page.
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Leveled Problem Solving: Visualizing Solids

For Students 2nd - 3rd
Connecting academic concepts to real-life applications is an important component of any lesson, especially with such topics as geometric shapes. In this instructional activity on geometric shapes, students answer word problems. This...
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Symmetrical Journals

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners identify symmetrical shapes around their classroom and make symmetry journals. In this symmetry lesson plan, students make drawings of symmetrical shapes inside their journals.
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Polyhedra: Faces, Edges, and Vertices (3-D Marshmallow Models)

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the attributes of 3-dimensional shapes. In this shapes lesson, 3rd graders examine faces, edges, and vertices of 3-dimensional shapes as they construct shapes using marshmallows and toothpicks.
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Sculpture in Relief

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders create an abstract wall relief that incorporates the use of free form shapes, lines, movement, & color. They use oak tag, toilet paper holders and glue to create their sculptures.
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Sizes Worksheet: Longer

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learning how identify similar shapes is an important skill for learners to acquire. In this sizes worksheet, students name each shape on each row and then draw the same shape again in the space to the right. Learners make their shape...
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Triangle Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students analyze an intricate design of lines. Students look for all the triangles and tell how many there are.
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Exploring Rocks

For Teachers K
Students recognize differences in the size, shape, texture, and color of different rocks. In this rocks lesson plan, students also learn and repeat back how a volcano erupts and make one out of a toilet paper tube.
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Word Recognition

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Students recognize and spell color and shape words. In this color and shape words lesson plan, students reinforce their vocabulary and spelling skills.
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Patterns

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders investigate the concept of patterns and how they can occur with numbers and the lesson plan focuses on the occurrance wiht shapes. They complete an activity investigating patterns using a story to set the tone of fun.
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Copy Cat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine a Webmath page, and demonstrate how to copy and paste. They create a computer-generated template page presenting the attributes of two- and three- dimensional shapes.
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Sort it Out

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Young scholars identify and sort a variety of two- and three-dimensional objects and compare and contrast their attributes. They identify shapes, locate shapes on the faces of solids, sort real objects and explain the sorting rule, and...
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Big, Bigger, Biggest

For Students K - 2nd
In this "big" worksheet, learners trace shapes such as circles, squares and triangles, After cutting out the nine traced shapes, students place the shapes in order from smallest to largest. An answer key is included.
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Building Block Puzzle

For Students 3rd
In this shapes worksheet, 3rd graders look at the 6 figures on the left in each row. Students then look at the shapes on the right, determine and circle which shape cannot be used to build each figure on the left.
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Challenge: Square and Circle

For Students K - 2nd
In this shape instructional activity, students color squares orange, circles blue, and count and write the numbers of each shape present. A clown is shown juggling the shapes.
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Patterns

For Students 1st - 2nd
For this shape patterns worksheet, students identify the shapes within each set and select the shape that comes next in the 5 patterns.
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Patterns

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this shape patterns worksheet, learners identify the shape pattern in each example. Students select the shape that comes next in the 5 patterns.
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Who Am I?

For Students K - 1st
In this early childhood shape problem solving worksheet, students determine the 4 shapes that are described. Student also respond to 1 short answer question.