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Exploring Polygons and The Greedy Triangle

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Excellent lesson! Anne Linehane's geometry story, The Greedy Triangle, offers an opportunity to practice forming various types of polygons with your learners. Using elastic bands (or Chinese jump ropes), partners form the various shapes...
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Afterimage

For Teachers 4th - 8th
To illuminate how afterimage occurs, create a star, square, or other geometric-shaped light for learners to look at for 30 seconds. Then, have them explain what they see as they shift their focus to a blank wall. A full explanation of...
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Exploration with Geometric Solids

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students reinforce geometric concepts by playing "Guess My Solid." Through a process of elimination, they determine the shapes of mystery solids. Finally, students use various materials to construct their own geometric figures.
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Solid Shapes

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this geometric solids worksheet, students examine 4 different solid shapes then record the number of faces, the number of edges and the name of each shape.
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Sizes Worksheet: Smaller

For Students K - 3rd
In this size comparison worksheet, students will examine three shapes, determine the name of each shape and then draw a smaller version of each shape.
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Four Color Map

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Learners explore geometry by completing a color puzzle. In this shape identification lesson, students utilize deductive reasoning to complete a Google SketchUp puzzle with trapezoid, triangles and rectangular shapes. Learners complete...
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Investigating Tessellations in 2 Dimensions

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students analyze tessellations.  In this geometry instructional activity, students discover which shapes can or cannot be used to create a tessellation.  Students watch a video, then create their own tessellations.
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Geometric Solids

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify various shapes in everyday objects. in pairs, 1st graders go on a shape field trip to locate various objects of different shapes. They photograph the objects and later use the prints to write sentences describing...
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Making Shapes

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders construct geometric figures using compasses and protractors.
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Lighthouse Geometric

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students identify the types and characteristics of geometric figures. In this lighthouse geometric activity, students review shapes that represent plane or solid.  They select items that could be used to construct a lighthouse scene and...
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Identifying the Shape of Objects 1

For Students 1st - 4th
In this identifying the shape of objects 1 worksheet, students identify the picture and choose its correct shape online from multiple answers with immediate feedback.
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Navajo Rug

For Teachers K
Navajo art incorporates many fascinating shapes and designs. In this shapes lesson, students explore how shapes may be combined to create art and architecture. They also discover shapes in the world around them.
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Everyday Heroes You Can Be One, Too

For Teachers K
Pupils listen to a read aloud of Alan Baker's, White Rabbit's Color Book while identifying shapes and lines throughout the book. They use shapes and different types of lines to create a bunny of their own. They must use five shapes to...
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Shapes and Patterns- Kaleidoscope

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders create art using shapes. In this shapes and patterns lesson, 3rd graders explore multiple ways of combining shapes to create new objects and art.
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Calico Watercolor Cats

For Teachers K - 2nd
A fun art project, this lesson incorporates math and listening skills as young artists play with a new painting technique. First the teacher models how to draw a cat using shapes, an oval for the body, triangles for the ears and so on,...
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Taller

For Students K - 1st
In this shapes instructional activity, students analyze the shapes in 3 problems and name them. Students then draw the same shape again in the blank, making it taller than the one already there.
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Pop-it...Stop-it

For Teachers 8th - 11th
Students observe how certain geometric shapes can be used to make some structures rigid and others flexible. The activity involves construction of a 30-60 right triangle, folding while following directions, and identifying polygons.
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Identifying Parallelograms

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this identifying parallelograms worksheet, students look at the colorful shapes and identify the ones that have two pairs of parallel lines.
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Dotted Lines And Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
In this dotted lines and shapes worksheet, students practice tracing and retracing eight dotted geometric shapes for mastery of drawing lines and shapes.
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Net "Working"

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Upper elementary and middle schoolers explore the properties of various polygons. They use video, resource links, and engage in hands-on activities in order to construct geometric nets. This fine plan should lead to increased...
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Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Shapes

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. In this geometry instructional activity, 1st graders examine the attributes of 2 -dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes. They also create the shapes as they build models. This...
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Shape Puzzle-- Car

For Students K - 1st
In this shape activity, students cut out 12 basic geometric shapes with patterns provided. Using these pieces, students look at a picture of a car and duplicate this design.
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Describer-Drawer Game

For Teachers 4th - 12th
What's life with out a little fun and games now and then? This game helps kids practice many different skill sets. Child one takes a card then attempts to dictate how to draw the object to child two. Child two draws an object based on...
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Polygons in Symmetry: Animal Inventions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders use polygons to create animal figures with symmetry. In this polygons and symmetry lesson, 4th graders create a symmetrical animal collage by cutting and gluing geometric shapes and figures from math activities.  

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