National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Cutting Corners
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Activity 1: Seeing Light and Color
This activity focuses on using a box and a ball to experiment with light, shadows, and color. The goals are: Practice looking at light and shadow; Analyze how lighting influences the shape (soft/hard), color (hue) and value...
Other
Arts Connect Ed Playground Make It
Eight fun on-line art activities where young artists get to create, color, and design.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help young scholars understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
Arizona State University
Arts Work: Communicating Feelings Through Shape & Color
A lesson plan to help students understand the use of symbols and images to express their feelings through their artwork. A great lesson plan to boost students' self esteem. Has a link to a site with examples of Kandinsky's work.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids
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.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Tanagrams Puzzles for Kids
Explore shape recognition and visual spatial reasoning when you play this interactive tangram game. Answers can be checked immediately.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Shapely Tiling
On this one page interactive website expand your logic, Motion Geometry and pattern recognition knowledge while working on this challenge. The solution is available to double check your solution.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Isometric Drawing Tool
This site includes an interactive math tool to create drawings on isometric dot paper. You can draw figures using edges, faces, or cubes. Rotate and color your drawings, and view them in 3D or 2D.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Hope Depot: Science Fair Central
Find advice on project ideas, project steps, presentation tips, classroom activities and more.
Science Museum of Minnesota
Science Museum of Minnesota: Tops
In this lesson make a spinning top to explore the concepts of shape, color, spinning, and optical illusions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Number Line Squeeze
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is set up for students to practice their number recognition by playing Number-Line Squeeze. The students also get to review shape names and use less than and greater than phrases.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Same and Different
The Same and Different Donut Game is a pre-school activity to practice identifying objects that are the alike and not alike. Kids compare donuts based on shape, color and combinations of shape and color. After all rounds have been...
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Fun With Letters
This interesting site has a variety of activities and games to use in the classroom or at home to teach letter recognition, phonics, and beginning writing skills. Learn about individual letters at the Alphabet Soup Cafe, create an...
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Nrich: Game Tantaliser Tantrix Discoveries
This game combines tangrams and pattern recognition to offer you a challenge. The page has a "Printable page" link if you want to print it out to help you work with the problem.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Rock Investigation
In this activity young scholars will observe and investigate rocks in order to classify them in terms of color, shape, texture and size.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Collecting and Identifying Rocks
Students investigate rocks in an outdoor field trip, and then place them into groups by characteristics. The different groups could be the size, shape, color, and texture of the rocks. After classifying, students are introduced to the...
Other
Design and Colour
A site by watercolor artist John Lovett. He describes the Elements of Art and Principles of Design and gives tips and techniques for watercolor painting and for composition.
Other
English Guide
Homepage with links to resources and activities to help support English language learners. Links are organized into vocabulary, listening, grammar and other categories. Some activities are theme-based, focusing on animals, color/shapes,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Classification
This activity directs students to set up a two step classification scheme based on the physical traits of color and shape.
Curated OER
Harcourt School Publishers: Strange Combinations
Using the paintings of Gauguin, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Morisot, and others, site explores the different ways artists use color and shape to create feelings of tension and uneasiness. A good introductory lesson in analyzing and...
Curated OER
Harcourt School Publishers: Strange Combinations
Using the paintings of Gauguin, van Gogh, Kandinsky, Morisot, and others, site explores the different ways artists use color and shape to create feelings of tension and uneasiness. A good introductory lesson in analyzing and...