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Sizzling Snowflake Crystal

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the concept of a snowflake and how they are formed in nature. They conduct research in order to find images as models for an art project. Students create a snowflake with Crayola Markers and scissors to cut the shape.
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The Elements of Art

For Teachers 1st - 5th
The key elements of art are explored as students view a presentation which introduces them to words such as: texture, space, value, line, form, and shape. A nice resource for any art teacher who wants to introduce their students to these...
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Hand Vase: Ceramics

For Teachers K - 3rd
Ceramics can be a wonderful medium. The class creates fun and funky hand shapes vases inspired by Aboriginal art forms. This would be a great project to do just before Mother's Day. 
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Biological Oceanographic Investigations – Call to Arms

For Teachers 5th - 6th
How many simple machines does it take to make a robotic arm? An inquiry-based instructional activity explores that topic and challenges pupils to build a robotic arm that can stretch, turn, and more. A few questions help guide...
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Seeing Doubles

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Pupils work with dominoes to recognize the number of spots on each side as they relate to addition facts. In this seeing doubles instructional activity, students make triangle shaped flash cards for the double facts. Pupils represent the...
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Buildings, Buildings Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain awareness of shapes in architecture by creating a painting of their school and writing a reflective summary of their study of architecture.
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Pass It On

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a class activity that helps them learn some geometric terms along with their definitions. They describe relationships between two and three-dimensional shapes and analyze attributes and properties of...
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Free Printables: Handwriting 2

For Teachers K - 3rd
In this drawing instructional activity, students copy a number of shapes and then practice drawing the shape in the box provided at the bottom of the instructional activity.
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Free Printables: Handwriting 1

For Teachers K - 3rd
In this tracing worksheet, learners practice tracing a specific shape or line a number of times on the page. They do not practice writing it on their own.
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Artistic Angles

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore angles by using protractors. They recognize, describe and determine the surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes. Students recognize the right angle, acute angle, obtuse angle and vertex. They identify...
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Crystals

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students investigate crystal formation, their shapes and the best places to cleave crystals for smooth edges. In this crystal lesson plan, students experiment to form crystals with Salol as well as with copper wire and Silver Nitrate....
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Introduction to Minerals

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students discover how crystal structures go together to create minerals.  In this earth science lesson plan, students work in groups to create 3-dimensional shapes of crystals that they then put together in a compact structure.
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Problem-Solving Strategy: Find a Pattern

For Students 4th - 6th
For this tessellations worksheet, students solve 2 word problems where they use the "make a pattern strategy" to form tessellations from geometric shapes. There is scaffolding for the problem solving strategy.
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Bubbleology Mickey Mouse Style

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners investigate the effects of four different shaped wands and geometric shapes in a bubble solution. In this bubbleology instructional activity, the students build water and soap molecules. Learners work in cooperative groups and...
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Investigating Segments in a Quadrilateral

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Investigate the properties of the shape formed by connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides of a quadrilateral. For this properties of the shape formed by connecting the midpoints of adjacent sides of a quadrilateral lesson, learners...
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Sculptured Landscapes

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students research glaciers, how they are formed and what kind of landforms they carve out of the rock they pass over. They organize their findings into a mock newscast in a presentation for the class.
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Backyard Blitz

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students create a landscape design using shapes, colors and textures. A key is created with hyperlinks to information reports pertaining to the plants, trees and shrubs used in the design. Explore design principal utilizing a variety of...
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A Matter of Pattern

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students explore how shapes can make patterns then make connections as to how elements in a pattern relate to one another. For this matter of pattern lesson, students create a multi-folded paper snowflake. Students engage in a...
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Grade 5: Testing for Tessellations

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders use formal geometric language to describe polygons (and other shapes) that will tessellate the plane and those that will not. Students make generalizations about the characteristics of a polygon (or other shape) that will...
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Tangram Puzzles

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the origin of tangram. In this algebra lesson, students form different shapes and figures using tangram. They solve for the area of different shapes without using any geometric formulas, but the idea of tangram being put...
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Lesson One: Perimeter, Area, Volume

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore perimeter, area and volume. Using geoboards, toothpicks, and marshmallows, students create specific shapes. They are directed to use formulas to find the volume, area, and perimeter of the created shapes. In...
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Minimum and Maximum Perimeter

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Pupils practice a variety of strategies with varying numbers of tiles to form shapes and then find the minimum and maximum perimeter for each one. Each group is assigned a different area to build either with square tiles or a geoboard....
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Mixtures of Matter

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students experiment with mixtures of matter. In this matter lesson, students investigate which liquids form a solution when mixed together and which do not. Students also identify which solids can be separated from matter.
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Wrecked Angle

For Students 9th - 10th
For this geometry worksheet, students answer questions about triangles and trapezoids as it related to the area of a shape. They make their own polygons and calculate the area.

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