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Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers K - 12th
Introduce this abstract art to your class; they must chose ordinary classroom objects and shapes to paint with watercolors. The overlapping effect will create a fun, abstract piece of art!
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Naming Polygons

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
What polygon is this? Young geometers categorize shapes by circling all the quadrilaterals in a set of figures. Next, they write the names of 10 polygons using a visual guide as reference. Review the guide together before they start if...
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Naming Quadrilaterals

For Students 3rd
Scholars examine six common quadrilaterals and identify each by writing its name beneath the shape. Next, they sketch four shapes: parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, and trapezoid. Once finished, review which features helped learners...
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Tessellations: Geometric Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Learners create tessellation drawings using repeating geometric shapes.
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Putting It All Together

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine a painting.  In this shapes and puzzle lesson, students view Guston's painting Blue Water and identify the colors, shapes and recognizable forms.  Students work in groups to put together puzzle pieces of the painting. ...
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Art Basics Scavenger Hunt

For Students 6th - 8th
Hand out this instructional activity 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...
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Coordinates

For Students 5th Standards
For beginning point plotters, these graphs give a good introduction. They examine a graph with shapes drawn onto it and each vertex labeled. There are 20 total, and scholars write the coordinates of each labeled point. All of these are...
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Halves

For Students 1st Standards
Is it half? There are three sections to this introductory fractions learning exercise focusing on halves. First graders begin by coloring half of five basic shapes, each of which already is divided into two parts. Next, they examine four...
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The Very Busy Spider

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Youngsters explore visual arts by participating in a geometry identification activity. They read the book The Very Busy Spider and identify the techniques spiders use to create webs. Have you ever noticed that their webs are geometric...
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Patch Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Young scholars use an Internet tool to explore shapes and how they combine.  In this patterns instructional activity, students create quilting patterns using various shapes.  Young scholars recognize how the shapes fit together.
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Year 5 Unit D1

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This presentation is intended to accompany an entire unit and covers a wide variety of concepts. Counting on, counting back, symmetry, properties of 2-D shapes, completing symmetrical patterns, and measuring angles are all covered.
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Real-Life Problems

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
There's a party going on! Learners examine an image of a birthday party and answer 10 analysis questions. They employ a variety of math skills including telling time, days of the week, division, subtraction, multiplication, addition,...
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Quarters

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Set up youngsters for fraction success years down the road with this focus on quarters. They begin with examining five shapes that have been equally segmented into four parts. Using one example as reference, learners shade a quarter of...
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National Gallery of Canada

Surprising Sun Prints

For Teachers K - 3rd
Here comes the sun! Composition, shapes, and the properties of light are the focus of this bright lesson. Class members examine art and then create sun prints using photosensitive paper and various objects of different shapes and sizes....
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National Gallery of Canada

My Treehouse

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The activity touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...
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Tech4Learning

Fantastic Fractions

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
Learners study how shapes can be divided into equal parts, that each part be equal to its counterpart, and combining parts equals one whole. They make the shapes out of modeling clay and take digital pictures of its parts to create an...
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To Be a Triangle Or Not To Be a Triangle?

For Students 10th
In this triangles instructional activity, 10th graders solve and complete 10 different problems that include applying the Triangle Inequality Theorem. First, they use the illustrated triangles and the data table to test the theorem....
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Get It Together!

For Students K
For this adding worksheet, students draw three more of the geometric shapes shown in each row and write the total numbers. Students solve three problems.
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First Grade Math Review

For Teachers 1st
In this first grade math review worksheet, 1st graders complete problems on place value, fractions, counting, shapes, and more. Students complete 25 multiple choice questions.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Cross Sections

For Teachers 7th - 12th Standards
Use this activity on cross-sections of three-dimensional shapes in your math class to work on algebra or geometry Common Core standards. The lesson includes a list of relevent terminology, and a step-by-step process to illustrate the...
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PBS

Patterns to the Rescue!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Track down the Cyberchase episode that this instructional activity is associated with. Using a worksheet that is embedded in the plan, learners must find the next two numbers and shapes (a double pattern). Once these have been...
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Bugs Take Shape

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students investigate butterflies, moths, ladybugs and spiders looking at shapes, colors and patterns. They create a three dimensional bug using Crayola Model Magic, repeating patterns found in nature. They cut and shape the dough using...
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Geometry

For Teachers K - 2nd
What a fun activity for younger learners! Using this resource, they can discuss the attributes of squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and ovals, and also engage in a motivating activity. For those learning about simple shapes, this...
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Academy of American Poets

Teach This Poem: "The Shapes of Leaves" by Arthur Sze

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Arthur Sze's poem, "The Shapes of Leaves," encourages young scholars to notice and speak for others who "do not speak." The lesson begins with pupils writing about a tree that they really like. The class then examines an image of...

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