Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Eureka Math Parent Guide: Two Dimensional and Three Dimensional Shapes
A guide to support parents as they work with their students with two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Husky Sled: 3 D Objects
Discover 2D shapes and 3D objects from different views in Antarctica!
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shapes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this flipchart to identify and name familiar 2d/3d shapes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rotate 2 D Shapes in 3 D
Practice your 3D visualization skills by rotating 2D shapes. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Rotate 2 D Shapes in 3 D
Practice your 3D visualization skills by rotating 2D shapes.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids
An interactive game to find number of edges, surfaces and vertices of different geometric shapes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shapes
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students are challenged to identify and name common 2D/3D shapes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Elem Math: Predicting the Next Shape in a Sequence of 2 D and 3 D Shapes
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video shows how to look at a pattern of 2D shapes to determine the next shape in the pattern. The video is followed by a series of practice questions to assess...
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.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Nets of Polyhedra
Practice matching 2D nets to the 3D shapes the fold up into. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Self Portraits With the Touch of a Finger [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will explore self-portraiture by looking at classical portrait paintings, such as Diego Velazquez's La Infanta Margarita or Raphael's Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione. A close look at these works reveals...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Fat or Flat?
Students will tell if a shape is 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cross Sections of a Cube
This interactive exercise focuses on discovering the relationships between two and three-dimensional shapes.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Cross Sections of 3 D Objects
Practice your knowledge of all possible cross-sections of common 3D objects. Students receive immediate feedback and have the opportunity to try questions repeatedly, watch a video or receive hints.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Patterns in Nature
In this video segment [3:25] from Cyberchase, a plant expert shows Bianca the patterns and symmetry found in nature.
Other
Bright Hub Education: Two Dimensional Art Activities
You don't have to be a trained artist to create beautiful two and three-dimensional art projects with your preschoolers. Many simple activities, such as painting and coloring, can be modified to include sensory elements to increase...
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Comprehensive Printable List of Geometry Formulas
Provides a list of area and perimeter formulas for two-dimensional shapes and volume and surface area formulas for three-dimensional solids.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 9.5 Modeling in Three Dimensions
Explore connections between a 2-dimensional net and a 3-dimensional box. Later in this section, use equations with variables to solve real world problems that use 2 and 3-dimensional objects.
Purple Math
Purplemath: Geometry Word Problems: Introduction
Introduces how to set up and solve simple geometric-figure word problems. Includes advice regarding formulas to memorize.
That Quiz
That Quiz: Practice Test: Geometry
This resource allows users to test their geometry knowledge.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: G Gmd, G Mg Tennis Balls in a Can
In this task, students investigate the volume of tennis balls and their cylindrical container, the empty space around the balls, different ways of slicing them, and what their visualizations will look like. Aligns with G-GMD.B.4 and...
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
The Math Forum: Defining Geometric Figures
This site provides an in-depth definition of a two-dimensional figure and a three-dimensional figure. Related terms include arcs, vertices, polygon, and many more.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 9.4 Connections Between Two and Three Dimensions
Cross-sections are one way that two-dimensional objects are connected to three-dimensional objects.