The Building Blocks of Geometry

After walking in a nearby neighborhood, have your class create this amazing city street pop-up. They study the facades of the buildings they see, focusing on geometric line, shape, and architecture. They then draw, cut, and create a city...

Students use pattern blocks to create a figure that is described to them and establish a pattern based on the description of the geometric figure. In this pattern blocks lesson plan, students fill out shape and fraction worksheets.

Students investigate similar figures using pattern blocks. In this similar figures lesson, students create figures using pattern blocks. Students keep track of the area of their figures.

Upper graders represent multiplication of a two-digit number by a two-digit number as the area of a rectangle with dimensions of the two factors. They find patterns for the number of different base ten blocks in a rectangle representing...

In addition to the catchy title, this lesson plan provides upper graders an opportunity to more closely scrutinize the attributes of plane figures. In particular, they focus on the similarity of different shapes. Both whole-class and...

A 27-page packet full of math games and activities builds on algebra, measurement, geometry, fractional, and graphing skills. Young mathematicians participate in math games collaboratively, promoting teamwork and skills practice.

  Students develop a knowledge of the geometric terms, slide, flip, and turn, by completing a puzzle.  In this geometry instructional activity, students build on their prior knowledge of geometric skills.  

Build up the basics of geometry, one point at a time. The segment in an extensive playlist on basic geometry provides the definitions of the essential building blocks of geometry. Using drawings, the video shows examples and descriptions.

Students explore geometry related to real world situations and tangrams. They explore a math website, identify various shapes, draw and describe shapes, read about the history of tangrams, and create their own set of tangrams out of paper.

Students explore the characteristics of geometric shapes. In this geometric shapes activity, students use tiles to draw pentominoes. Students participate in various learning center activities focused on configuring pentominoes.