eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Look and Find the Shapes

For Students K - 1st Standards
A book about shapes in the world around us. Includes audio narration in 9 additional languages with text in English.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Shapes at the Playground

For Students K - 1st Standards
Look at all the shapes we can find in the world around us. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Math Shapes Teaching Theme

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shapes Theme provides an excellent collection of free sample worksheets, teacher resources, lesson plans and interactive media for the elementary grades.
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Other

Crick Primary School: Shape Quiz

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Students read the clues to determine the shape the clues are describing. If they choose the correct shape a smiley face appears.
eBook
Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy: Know and Learn: Spot the Shapes

For Students K - 1st Standards
A book about the shapes around us. Includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sorting Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Building Shapes Review of 2 D Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this lesson, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and ideas...
Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: Creating Shapes in Our World

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson plan, 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...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Searching Solid Shapes

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Lesson introducing the basic three-dimensional shapes (sphere, cylinder, cone, cube). Common items with those shapes are hidden on the playground for young scholars to find and photograph. Pictures are then used to create a photostory....
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: Moving Shapes [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
These activities will allow students to discover the concepts of geometry through shape exploration and the creation of choreographic sequences.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: World of Fish: 3 D Space & Size

For Students K - 1st Standards
Discover the characteristics of 3D shapes in this fantasy world of fish.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Dojo: Shape & Space: 3 D Shapes and Symmetry

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Meet Morisu in the dojo. Help him with symmetrical objects and shapes!
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: 4.4 Developing Geometry Understandings With Tangrams

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students use this interactive website to explore tangrams by connecting the pieces.
Lesson Plan
University of Regina (Canada)

University of Regina: Math Central: Shape Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Two and three-dimensional geometric shape are explored in these exercises. Each activity has teacher notes, activity instructions, and a worksheet when necessary.
Website
Primary Resources

Primary Resources: 2 D and 3 D Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Here is a huge collection of teacher resources for teaching 2-D and 3-D shapes. Includes smartboard and PowerPoint presentations, as well as worksheets and helpful hints.
Lesson Plan
University of Texas at Austin

Mathematics Teks Toolkit: Oh No! My Ominoes!

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Explore pentominoes by determining congruent and non-congruent shapes.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Geometry

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource has an assortment of teacher-created geometry activities for elementary and primary students. Printable two-dimensional shapes, area and perimeter worksheets, board games, rules and...
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Common Core Sheets

Common Core Sheets: Characteristics of 3 D Shapes

For Students K - 1st Standards
Create a worksheet to assess students knowledge of the characteristics of three dimensional shapes.
Interactive
TeacherLED

Teacher Led Interactive Whiteboard Resource Rep Tile

For Students K - 1st Standards
Students use shapes to explore transformations and tessellations with this interactive white board activity.
Interactive
Other

Kinderweb: Educational Children's Games

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Use this site to practice identifying shapes, colors, and animals with these interactive games.
Interactive
Quia

Ixl Learning: Select Two Dimensional Shapes

For Students K - 1st Standards
This interactive media source asks students to determine which picture shapes are two-dimensional.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 1.g 3 D Shape Sort

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
As a whole group, students will sort a collection of three-dimensional objects into categories by shape. There should be several that fall into each of the categories below: Aligns with 1.G.A.1.
Interactive
ABCya

Ab Cya: Shapes: Geometry Game

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shapes is a fun educational activity to help children learn basic properties of simple geometric figures. Children will practice looking for differences and similarities between shapes to complete puzzles. Shapes! gets progressively more...