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Learn the Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students examine and identify the similarities and differences of two-dimensional shapes. They play an I-Spy shape game, participate in a classroom Shape Search, and create illustrations of shapes for a shape collage.
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Copy Cat

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students examine a Webmath page, and demonstrate how to copy and paste. They create a computer-generated template page presenting the attributes of two- and three- dimensional shapes.
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A Holocaust Monument

For Teachers 3rd - 9th
Students examine Holocaust memorials to discover expressive power of shapes, practice creating simple geometric shapes or forms, and practice calculating ratios, area, and/or volume.
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Shapes that Make Structures Strong

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct a variety of forms, test their strength, and discuss how tension and compression are distributed by triangles, arches, and domes.
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Terrific Tessellations

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students create, transform, and critique their own piece of artwork. In doing this lesson, students get more experience working with angles, lines, and measurement. They gain experience seeing, and creating their own patterns and shapes.
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Positive/negative Shapes, Shamrocks And Matisse

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students make shamrock collages.
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Learning about Shapes with Tangrams and the Net

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Learners use tangrams, student literature, and Websites to explore shapes.
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Shapes And Colors

For Teachers K
Students distinguish between circles, squares, and rectangles and various colors in which they utilize the KidPix program on the computer to create them. They alternate; allowing each student to have a turn constructing and coloring in...
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Shapes

For Teachers K
Students recognize different shapes, such as squares and rectangles. They make a face using squares and the rest of a body using rectangles, using the drawing pencil in KidPix.
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Shapes!

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students identify five basic geometric shapes by naming them according to their defining characteristics. They draw the shapes and identify food with similar shapes.
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Airy Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create snowflakes. In this snowflake lesson, students cut out snowflake shapes from light styrofoam. They hang from the ceiling and watch them move with the air moves. 
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Identifying Shapes

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this shape identification worksheet, students identify shapes as circles, triangles, squares or rectangles. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Shape and Figure Descriptions

For Students 4th - 5th
In this shape and figure worksheet, students name shapes or figures that are described, then draw a picture of each. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Naming Shapes- Prisms, Cones and Cylinders

For Students 4th - 6th
In this shapes worksheet, students identify various figures: prisms, cones and cylinders. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Geometric Shapes: Which Shape Is Different?

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this geometric shapes learning exercise, students analyze pictures of 10 shapes. Students color the one shape that is different to all the others and tell why it is different.
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Shapes: Faces, Vertices and Edges

For Students 5th - 6th
In this shapes worksheet, students determine the number of faces, vertices and edges of given shapes, then name the shape. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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More Shapes For ESL

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this ESL worksheet, students learn to recognize and write: rectangle, diamond, triangle, heart. Students write the name of the shape on the line. Note: The printing style in the examples is not standard in the U.S.
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Circus of Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
For this geometric shapes worksheet, students analyze a picture of a skyscraper tower with many shapes. Students color all the triangles.
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Shapes and Colors: Squares, Triangles, Circles, Rectangles and Ovals

For Students Pre-K - 1st
For this shape and color worksheet, students trace squares, coloring them blue, triangles, coloring them green, circles, coloring them red, rectangles, coloring them orange, and ovals, coloring them purple.
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Shapes and Colors: Rectangles, Squares, Triangles, Ovals and Circles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this shape and color activity, students trace rectangles, coloring them brown, squares, coloring them grey, triangles, coloring them green, ovals, coloring them neon green, and circles, coloring them red.
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Shape and Colors: Rectangles, Squares, Triangles, Ovals and Circles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this shape and color learning exercise, students trace rectangles, coloring them brown, squares, coloring them grey, triangles, coloring them purple, ovals, coloring them neon green, and circles, coloring them blue. Students also...
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Write-on Shapes: Flower

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this online shape activity learning exercise, students color the shapes online and print out the copy. Students may use the shapes for writing poems, word lists, reports, vocabulary words, and other activities.
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Geometry: Shapes

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this geometry/shapes worksheet, students select the shape in a row that is similar to a shape that begins the row, 4 rows total.
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Take a Trip on the Chandelier

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students discuss the lines, shapes, and patterns used to decorate a 19th-century chandelier that was made to look like a hot-air balloon. In this art lesson students discuss the chandelier and then create a papier-mâché sculpture of a...