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Whatever Floats Your Boat
Second graders make boats by folding paper. They identify and draw shapes made during the creating process and place lines of symmetry on them. They demonstrate their understanding by completing an activity sheet imbedded in this plan.
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Magical Shapes
First graders practice manipulating shapes into different locations. They see that even though shapes may look different when they are moved into different locations, the shape remains the same with the same properties. They make...
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Kid Garden Math
Students design a geometric garden. Shapes to be included are squares, triangles, and hexagons. After reading a book together about shapes, students get to use construction paper to cut out and design their own shape garden.
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What a SHAPEly Fit!
Learners identify and explore the attributes of polygons. They design and create a quilt square using polygons, and produce a class quilt.
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Yummy Shapes
Students explore space shapes learning about edges, corners, and faces. They enjoy shape soup as a culminating activity.
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Learn the Shapes
Students examine and identify the similarities and differences of two-dimensional shapes. They play an I-Spy shape game, participate in a classroom Shape Search, and create illustrations of shapes for a shape collage.
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Copy Cat
Students examine a Webmath page, and demonstrate how to copy and paste. They create a computer-generated template page presenting the attributes of two- and three- dimensional shapes.
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A Holocaust Monument
Students examine Holocaust memorials to discover expressive power of shapes, practice creating simple geometric shapes or forms, and practice calculating ratios, area, and/or volume.
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Shapes that Make Structures Strong
Students construct a variety of forms, test their strength, and discuss how tension and compression are distributed by triangles, arches, and domes.
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Terrific Tessellations
Students create, transform, and critique their own piece of artwork. In doing this lesson, students get more experience working with angles, lines, and measurement. They gain experience seeing, and creating their own patterns and shapes.
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Learning about Shapes with Tangrams and the Net
Pupils use tangrams, student literature, and Websites to explore shapes.
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Shapes And Colors
Students distinguish between circles, squares, and rectangles and various colors in which they utilize the KidPix program on the computer to create them. They alternate; allowing each student to have a turn constructing and coloring in...
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Shapes
Students recognize different shapes, such as squares and rectangles. They make a face using squares and the rest of a body using rectangles, using the drawing pencil in KidPix.
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Shapes!
Students identify five basic geometric shapes by naming them according to their defining characteristics. They draw the shapes and identify food with similar shapes.
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Airy Snowflakes
Students create snowflakes. In this snowflake lesson, students cut out snowflake shapes from light styrofoam. They hang from the ceiling and watch them move with the air moves.
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Identifying Shapes
In this shape identification worksheet, students identify shapes as circles, triangles, squares or rectangles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Shape and Figure Descriptions
In this shape and figure worksheet, students name shapes or figures that are described, then draw a picture of each. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Naming Shapes- Prisms, Cones and Cylinders
In this shapes instructional activity, students identify various figures: prisms, cones and cylinders. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Geometric Shapes: Which Shape Is Different?
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students analyze pictures of 10 shapes. Students color the one shape that is different to all the others and tell why it is different.
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Shapes: Faces, Vertices and Edges
In this shapes learning exercise, students determine the number of faces, vertices and edges of given shapes, then name the shape. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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More Shapes For ESL
In this ESL worksheet, students learn to recognize and write: rectangle, diamond, triangle, heart. Students write the name of the shape on the line. Note: The printing style in the examples is not standard in the U.S.
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Circus of Shapes
In this geometric shapes worksheet, learners analyze a picture of a skyscraper tower with many shapes. Students color all the triangles.