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Drawing Basic Shapes
Challenge your geometry class with this connect-the-dots activity! Scholars use a ruler to complete simple shapes through connecting dots in 6 shape-identification problems, and identify it from 4 choices: triangle, square, rectangle, or...
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Countdown Challenge: Area of Basic Shapes
In this basic shapes worksheet, students use formulas to determine the area of given figures. They compute the area of composite figures and subtract the area of shaded areas. This one-page worksheet contains 12 problems.
Learner
Solid Shapes
A collection of two lessons, kindergartners will identify two-dimensional shapes in solid shapes. They will develop basic knowledge of the components that make up a sphere, rectangular prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone, and cube. Young...
American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture
Shapes on the Farm
Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or out on the farm, shapes are everywhere in the world around us. Presented with an illustration of a farm, youngsters are tasked with coloring in all of the triangles, rectangles, squares, and...
Teacher's Corner
Shape Poetry
Calligrams, or shape poems, are the focus of ninth exercise in a ten-part poetry writing series.
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Learning The Basic Shapes
Students explore basic shapes concepts. For this math lesson, students examine circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles as they draw the figures they see on worksheets.
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Techno-shapes
Explore the concept of shapes by using tools in Kid Pix Deluxe 4 computer program. This techno-shapes instructional activity has pupils watching a video about shapes, and using the Kid Deluxe 4 computer program to draw shapes. They get...
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Basic Shapes
In this shapes worksheet, 2nd graders observe different basic shapes. Students observe 6 basic shapes including a square, triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, parallelogram, and pentagon.
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Art Basics Scavenger Hunt
Hand out this worksheet and lead your class on a scavenger hunt. Pupils look for examples of shape, form, balance, pattern, perspective, space, and depth. They draw and write about the examples they've found. A great resource to add to...
Baylor College
Global Atmospheric Change: The Math Link
Change up the classroom atmosphere with this interdisciplinary resource. Following along with the children's book Mr. Slaptail's Curious Contraption, these math worksheets provide practice with a wide range of topics including simple...
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Basic Shapes Exercise
For this basic shapes practice worksheet, students examine 5 shapes, color them, and write the correct word for each shape on the provided lines. A word bank is included.
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Shapes Worksheet: Tracing Circles
Early learners practice tracing 7 different sized circles and then draw 5 circles on their own in the space provided. A good, basic worksheet for working on fine motor skills.
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies
Perimeter & Area Worksheet 1
Test your mathematicians' skills with this full page of area and perimeter problems. Find the area and perimeter of different shapes including squares, parallelograms, trapezoids, and octagons. The formulas are not provided, so this...
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies
Perimeter & Area Worksheet 2
Alternate between area and perimeter with this instructional activity, practicing both concepts with different shapes. Problems include examples with parallelograms, octagons, squares, rectangles, and trapezoids. The formulas are not...
Carnegie Mellon University
Technical Sketching Worksheets
How do you create a technical drawing? Cover the basics of technical sketching with a few practice sketches of simple shapes. A technical sketching lesson introduces the proper precision measurement techniques. Pupils progress to draw...
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Shapes
In this shapes and lines worksheet, students review a table of 20 basic shapes, all of which are labeled. The worksheet explains that shapes are made up of lines, which can be straight or curved.
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Basic Shape Naming Worksheet
In this basic shape activity, students name 5 basic shapes including a circle, square, triangle, oval, and rectangle. They write the names on the blank lines using the hints at the bottom of the page, and they color the shapes.
Lincoln Public Schools
Developmental Strokes: Pre-Writing Worksheet
Young writers develop their fine motor skills one stroke at a time with this simple tracing worksheet. Looking at pictures of eight basic figures ranging from horizontal and vertical lines to circles and triangles, children practice...
Oregon Department of Education
Building and Expanding Patterns
The generation of a number, or shape pattern, is the focus of this math lesson plan. Pupils are presented with a variety of patterns shapes, and number patterns, then use worksheets embedded in the plan to gain further practice. The...
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Sizes Worksheet-Shorter
In this worksheet on space and size, learners 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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2: Isle of Shapes - Based on the Puerto Rico Quarter Reverse
Students identify both two and three-dimensional shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, students listen to a teacher led lesson about the island of Puerto Rico. They look at the symbols and shapes on "Puerto Rico Quarter Reverse" on a...
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Free Printables: Shape Recognition
In this shape instructional activity, students find specific shapes or angles and color them the correct color that is indicated at the top of the instructional activity. There are 8 worksheets to select from on this page.
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Size Worksheet: Tall and Short
In this size/shape worksheet, students look at shapes on a 4 section grid. Students determine which shape is tall, which is short.
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Shape Match Cut and Paste
In this shape match cut and paste worksheet, pupils cut out the four shapes at the bottom of the page and paste them on the matching shapes in the pictures.