In this lesson on shape attributes, students learn key vocabulary, explore bases, and apply their learning to a real-world situation.

Second graders explain shape attributes using written explanations.

Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...

Given a shape, students select from four options the name of the shape. These include more than the basic shapes, such as hexagon, pentagon, parallelogram, and rhombus.

This task challenges a students knowledge of 2-dimensional geometrical shapes to sort shapes and to design a shape that has a given set of attributes.

This is a complete lesson plan with objectives and rationale for learning shapes, followed by a tutorial and practice exercises. Given pictures of shapes, their definitions, and everyday examples, students determine simple shapes with...

Meet Morisu in the dojo. Help him with symmetrical objects and shapes!

Join Mel and Alba and find out more about 3D shapes and the position of objects.

Get your spy glasses ready! In this weeklong adventure, children will explore shapes and their attributes and use this knowledge to decode a secret message. Children will learn about two-dimensional (flat) and three-dimensional (solid)...

This interactive web lesson teaches students about two-dimensional shape attributes.

We are learning about how shape attributes helps us to see how shapes are alike and different. This site provides four resources for shapes including 3-D.

Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] The video describes how to determine which shapes are similar by looking at the attributes of the given shapes. The video is followed by a series of practice...

The introductory pages introduce the shapes and their attributes: triangle, rectangle, square, rhombus, circle, and oval. The additional pages allow students to practice shape recognition, tracing shapes, and drawing shapes.

In this Five E's AMSTI lesson, students discover relationships between shapes. Students discover multiple ways to combine shapes to fill the area of a given shape using real and virtual pattern blocks, and share their solutions with...

In this game, students identify shapes by choosing the words that fit the pictures. Links to other games are provided.

This is a hands-on lesson plan that will help students explore shapes in their environment. Students will work in diverse groups to complete this activity. Students will make a class book of their findings.This lesson plan was created as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will work with 3-Dimensional shapes identifying attributes of the shapes and recreating them. Students will create, identify and describe 3-Dimensional shapes as part of the...

This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the attributes of two-dimensional shapes.

This task challenges a student to use knowledge of geometrical attributes to identify and describe shapes.

Visit the huskies at Antarctica and find out more about the position and movement of objects.

While 3 Dimensional shapes are not mentioned specifically in the Common Core, they do include the term face which is more appropriate for 3D shape attributes.

Subtraction problems can involve shapes, attributes and perimeter.

Young scholars will identify the attributes of shapes and use those attributes to draw and describe shapes. This lesson contains a detailed plan, pictures of student work, and videos of the lesson in action.