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Sparky's Birthday Surprise
Fire safety is a hot topic for kids! With this resource, little ones will read, color, draw, and play as they are learning about prevention and, as an added bonus, practice naming shapes, counting, and adding numbers! Reading, math, and...
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Ocean Exploration: Shapes and Patterns Under the Sea
So many shapes in our vast oceans. Young explorers can discover new shapes in a variety of ways in this lesson. One way is having free exploration with a pattern shape kit handed out by the teacher. Another is by viewing a video, Ocean...
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ESL Vocabulary Connect the Dots: Shapes and Colors
Young English language learners trace color vocabulary words on the lines and match it to the correct illustration. A visual and direct approach to developing color vocabulary!
Early Childhood Education
Shape It Up!
The best way to understand shapes is to make them. Young geometers explore basic shapes through a variety of gross motor and fine motor activities. Shape sorting, singing songs about shapes, and eating shape snacks are just a few of the...
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I'm Learning About Shapes
In this shape worksheet, students identify and trace a star and write its name on the primary paper lines provided. Students complete two star activities.
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The Maze
There's only one way out of this maze, and youngsters will need to use their shape recognition skills to do it! They follow a three-shape pattern all the way from start to finish to keep on track. Encourage them to say the shapes as they...
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ESL Vocabulary Word Search: Shapes and Colors
Are your English language learners developing color-related vocabulary? Use this word search to reinforce their new vocabulary words! Some of the words are backwards and diagonal! Keep this in mind for young learners!
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Making Shapes
In this shapes worksheet, students identify and trace twelve shapes and then color them according to the directions. Students complete twenty-four activities.
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Measuring Star Temperatures
In this measuring star temperatures, students find the temperature of a star using Planck's curve and the Wein Displacement law. Students also find the peak wavelengths for given stars using Planck's curve.
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Tracing Three Shapes
In this tracing worksheet, learners trace a heart, star, and pentagon four times each. The shapes are on standard primary lines.
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Red Circle, Red Circle, What Do You See?
Young learners explore shapes and colors. They listen to Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and use the same language pattern to create a color and shape book of their own. After that, with the leftover magazine...
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Shape Bingo
In this shapes worksheet, students cut out 6 bingo cards, color the call cards with 4 different colors and then participate in playing a bingo game with 6 different shapes.
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Shapes: Following Directions
For this following directions worksheet, students will follow 5 directions to color various shapes including stars, squares, circles, triangles, and rectangles.
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Shapes Flashcards: Plane and Solid
In this geometry worksheet, students will cut out and practice the names of plane and solid shapes. The flashcards are in color.
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Patterns with Shapes and Pictures
In this patterns worksheet, 6th graders identify and complete 12 different problems that include patterns of various shapes and pictures. First, they analyze the pattern seen in each problem. Then, students determine what comes next...
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Making Pictures from Smaller Shapes
Students investigate shapes. In this dimension and orientation of shapes instructional activity, students identify and color shapes, use shape stamps to form animals, glue shapes together to make other objects and describe how shapes are...
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Trace the Dancing Shapes
In this shape tracing worksheet, students will trace and color seven different dancing shape people. The shapes include a star, heart, and diamond.
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Class Bear Book
Students use the story, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" to explore the concept of color, name writing, and text sequencing. A personal page is created for the class Big Bear Book.
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Shapes: Stars
In this shape worksheet, students trace 2 stars, then draw their own and color the stars in a set of shapes. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Shapes Worksheet 1
In this recognizing shapes worksheet, learners trace and color a star, circle, square, triangle, oval, and hexagon. Students trace and color six figures.
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Shapes Worksheet 2
In this identifying shapes worksheet, students trace the star, circle, square, triangle, oval and hexagon shapes and words and then color them. Students complete six activities.
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Stars and Planets Connect the Dots
Reach for the stars with this cute connect-the-dots activity! Kindergartners practice their counting and number sequencing by connecting the numbers 1 through 6 or 10 in four different shapes. A rocketship is completed for them as an...
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Color My Shapes
In this shape coloring instructional activity, students recognize the shapes oval, star, and circle. Students use the color key to color in the shapes for the butterfly image.
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Treasure Hunt
Young scholars dribble a ball while moving. In this dribbling lesson, students participate in a game in which they dribble from "poly spot" to "poly spot" gathering basic shapes identified as 'treasure".