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Describing People

For Students 1st - 3rd
In this describing people worksheet, students write words under people to describe their height, age, shape, and more. Students complete 17 problems.
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Surface Area with Polydrons

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore measurements by analyzing geometric shapes. In this surface area lesson, students identify the terms volume, weight, perimeter and area in order to find the requested measurements of specific polygons. Students utilize...
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Colours & Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 6th
In this identification instructional activity, students indicate the color and shapes. Students choose the color from a word bank. They choose the name for a shape and look at shapes to answer questions about them.
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Recognize the Shapes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this 3D shapes instructional activity, students color the 3D shapes according to the directions given. Students color 12 3D shapes total.
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Geometry Worksheet #13

For Students 10th
In this geometry instructional activity #13 instructional activity, 10th graders work in groups to solve 6 geometry problems, involving measurement of angles.
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Physical Education Meets Geometry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students create geometric shapes with a jump rope. For this interdisciplinary lesson, students review the different shapes while getting some physical activity.
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Drawing Figures

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders draw shapes that are congruent. In this congruency activity, 3rd graders use grid paper to draw letters and figures and their congruent partners. They complete a worksheet while working in a whole class setting with the...
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The Giant Barrel Sponge

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students study barrel sponges. In this science and art lesson, students discuss what sponges are, create their own sponge, and share what they created with the rest of the class.
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Shapes Graphing

For Students K - 1st
In this graphing data worksheet, students examine the 11 shapes pictured and use that information to finish an incomplete bar graph.
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Fall Triangle Tree

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Students create leaves for a fall bulletin board. In this shapes lesson, students use triangular construction paper shapes to make leaves for a classroom bulletin board.
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Cut Outs: Shapes and Symbols

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students create collages based on Juan Quick-to-See Smith's "Ode to Chief Seattle." In this shapes, symbols and Native American lesson, students examine the "Ode to Chief Seattle" and Henri Matisse's cutout work. Students design their...
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Investigating Different Rock Types

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students analyze a rock using their eyes and then a hand lens. For this science lesson, students determine and discuss how hard or how easy it was to find and classify the assigned rock. Students record their observations on an index...
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Similarity

For Students 7th - 12th
In this similarity worksheet, students identify similar shapes.  They determine the scale factor of the similar shapes and find their volume and area.  Students enlarge shapes according to the given scale factor.  They determine the...
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Say It With Shapes

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create patterns with shapes and words. For this patterns and shapes lesson, students recieve an envelope with shapes with words on them. Students make patterns with the shapes that also create a poem. Students can add to the...
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The Pentagram Problem

For Students 7th - 10th
In this pentagram worksheet, students examine a pentagram and number the intersection of lines.  They number the crosspoints in such a way that the sum of the numbers on each line are equal.  This one-page worksheet contains 1 problem. ...
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Six Squares

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create different shapes on grid paper.  In this two-dimensional geometry lesson, students take turns outlining a shape made of six squares on the graph paper.  They identify all shapes they see once everyone has had a turn.
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Using Geometric Shapes in Architecture

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify two and three dimensional shapes used in architectural designs by viewing images on the Internet.  In this geometry lesson, 3rd graders create their own building designs and identify the geometric shapes that will...
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A Shapely Activity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore polygons in various shape activities. In this polygons lesson, 5th graders discuss and identify polygons by their number of sides. Students sort ceramic tiles by the number of sides on each piece. Students explore...
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I Spy Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students play a game in which they name geometric shapes. In this geometric shape lesson, students ask "yes and no" questions to determine which shape one of their classmates has chosen. They ask questions that lead them to the name of...
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Tangrams

For Students 6th - 8th
In this tangram worksheet, students form a square using tangrams.  Afterwards, they form additional shapes with tangrams.  This one-page worksheet contains 180 tangram shapes for students to create  by placing tangram shapes together.
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Math All Around Us!

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students walk around their neighborhood and school to find objects that remind them of a math concept or vocabulary term. In this real world math lesson plan, students find math concepts in various familiar locations and take pictures of...
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All About Quadrilaterals

For Students 6th - 8th
In this all about quadrilaterals learning exercise, middle schoolers interactively answer 10 multiple choice questions about quadrilaterals, then click to check their answers.
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Shape Search

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders draw a model using correctly formed geometric shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, 2nd graders notice geometric shapes in the world around them and accurately draw these shapes.
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Artful Boomerangs

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars create and decorate a boomerang. In this boomerang lesson plan, students research the history of the boomerang and the three different types. They create their own boomerang and decorate it with a collage of pictures.