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Curated OER

Building Big and Strong

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Middle and high schoolers explore the concepts of architectural rigidity. They analyze a variety of polygons, and explain why some shapes add more strength to structures than others. The PBS video, "Building Big," is utilized in this plan.
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Space Awareness

What is a Constellation

For Students 1st - 5th
Why do some stars in a constellation appear brighter than others? Using a get-up-and-move astronomy activity, scholars explore perspective and the appearance of constellations in the sky while developing an understanding of the...
Unit Plan
Arizona Department of Education

Area and Perimeter of Regular and Irregular Polygons

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
Extend young mathematicians' understanding of area with a geometry lesson on trapezoids. Building on their prior knowledge of rectangles and triangles, students learn how to calculate the area of trapezoids and other...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Surprise!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 2)

For Teachers 1st Standards
Surprise! is the theme of this series of ESL lessons. Cover an array of topics such as where we live, different times of day, shapes, the city and the country, what we do for fun, jobs, and games, all while practicing how...
Lesson Plan
Willow Tree

Patterns - Numbers, Shapes, etc.

For Students 8th - 11th Standards
Find the pattern is the name of the game! Learners examine different patterns represented by numbers, shapes, and words. They must describe the pattern, predict the result in a given position, and find an equation that...
Lesson Plan
Shodor Education Foundation

Visual Patterns in Tessellations

For Teachers 7th - 10th Standards
Geometers explore the concept of tessellations. They use a tessellation applet to manipulate shapes and design their own tessellation using the applet.
Activity
Noyce Foundation

Lyle's Triangles

For Students K - 12th Standards
Try five problems on triangles. Levels A and B focus on shapes that can be created from right triangles. Level C touches upon the relationship between the area of a six-pointed star and the area of each triangle of which it is composed....
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K-5 Math Teaching Resources

Polygon Sort Sheet

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
What makes a polygon a polygon and how many different types are there? Invite your scholars to learn and discuss that question with this polygon sort sheet.  Learners cut out each polygon and sort them by their different...
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Teach Engineering

New Perspectives: Two-Axis Rotation

For Students 6th - 12th Standards
Two-axis rotations ... twice the fun as one-axis rotations! The last installment of a five-part module teaches scholars how to conduct two-axis rotations. They create isometric drawings before and after the rotations.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Identifying Geometric Shapes: Hexagon, Polygon, or Heptagon

For Students 5th - 6th
In this identifying geometric shapes instructional activity, students mark 12 multiple choice pictures of shapes as hexagons, polygons or heptagons.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Find the 2D shape

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this 2D shapes worksheet, students find the rectangular prism, triangular prism, pentagon, and triangle. Students have 3 shapes to choose from in each of the 4 problems.
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Curated OER

Folding to Make Shapes

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify different polygons and their attributes. In this geometry lesson, 2nd graders get to know polygons by studying the vocabulary and finding polygons in their classroom. They create these shapes and then find their...
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Curated OER

Combine Plane Shapes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this early childhood math practice worksheet, students examine 3 shapes and then select the blocks that they would use to build a similar shape.
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Curated OER

A Shapely Activity

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders explore polygons in various shape activities. For this polygons lesson, 5th graders discuss and identify polygons by their number of sides. Students sort ceramic tiles by the number of sides on each piece. Students explore...
Worksheet
Curated OER

2D Shapes Quiz

For Students 4th - 6th
In this 2D shapes quiz worksheet, students use their math skills to respond to 10 short answer questions pertaining to 2D shapes.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Names of 2D Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this 2D shapes worksheet, students fill in the blanks to name and describe the following four 2D shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Professor Panda's Puzzle of Shapes

For Students 5th
In this number puzzle worksheet, 5th graders use multiplication and division to fill in the missing numbers. They examine a key and fill in the shapes with the numbers that make each puzzle true.
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shapes and Introduction to Geometry

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Learners make a quilt. In this geometry lesson, students discuss patchwork quilts and learn some different geometric shapes and patterns that are commonly used. Learners explore designs with triangles and squares and then make their own...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Solid Shapes

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this geometric solids activity, 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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Curated OER

Shape Hunt

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Young scholars explore two-dimensional and solid shapes. In this shapes and patterns geometry lesson, students work with a partner to create identifiable objects using tangrams. Young scholars describe the attributes of their shape and...
Worksheet
Curated OER

Independent Practice 2: Recognizing Similar and Congruent

For Students 7th - 8th
Learners examine given figures and determine if they are similar and congruent or similar and not congruent. Afterward, they match congruent figures drawn in a table. This one-page worksheet contains 12 problems.
Worksheet
Curated OER

3-Dimensional Shapes

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Where is the vertex? Each of these three-dimensional figures is drawn so learners can see all sides and corners. They examine an example before trying six on their own. Some of these will be tricky, so be sure kids have covered this...
Lesson Plan
Curated OER

"Polly"gon Pockets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Explore polygons with your elementary learners. Divide the class in 12 to configure the polygon puzzle before them. They list the attributes of each type of polygon they see, and if there's time, they jump on the interactive website...
Interactive
Arcademics

Kangaroo Hop

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Scholars play against three other participants to show what they know about geometric figures. Starting at the beginning, kangaroos jump from shape to shape to match the figure to the displayed word and make their way to the finish...

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