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Shape Tool
Young scholars explore various polygons and examine how shapes can be manipulated in a variety of ways. In this shape tool lesson, students identify geometric shapes in two dimensions. Young scholars identify and draw one line of...
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Geometric Patterns and Relationships
Fifth graders explore three-dimensional figures. As a class, they discuss the characteristics of various three-dimensional figures. In groups, 5th graders write riddles describing the geometric shape. Partners read each other's...
K12 Reader
Identifying Geometric Solids
After reading a short passage that identifies different types of geometric solids, kids answer a series of questions using information found in the article.
Curated OER
Elements of Art
Students explore three topics of elements of art in this seven lessons unit. An overview of light, space, figure, ground, pattern, balance and symmetry are presented in this unit.
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The Android Factory
Young scholars explore the idea that primitive virtual 3D objects can be reshaped to infinitely original combinations using additive and subtractive methods. They create 3-D objects with a computer which necessitates a cooperation of...
Curated OER
Prisms, Cylinders, Cones
In this prisms worksheet, students answer 10 multiple choice problems about prisms. Students determine the number of faces a prism has, characteristics of figures, etc.
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Classify Prisms
Middle schoolers classify prisms according to their attributes. For this classifying prisms lesson, students explore different prisms. Middle schoolers generate observations of the attributes and classify the prism correctly.
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Shape Up!
Students investigate measurement through the use of literature through this series of lessons.
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Geometric Solids
Students identify and create simple geometric shapes and describe simple spatial relationships. Through discussion, hands-on activities and show and tell, they identify geometric solids in real life and create graphs of commonly found...
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I Spy Shapes
Students play a game in which they name geometric shapes. In this geometric shape lesson, students ask "yes and no" questions to determine which shape one of their classmates has chosen. They ask questions that lead them to the name of...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Twisted Tangrams
Primary geometers create a picture using tangrams. In this geometry lesson, students read Grandfather Tang: A Tale Told with Tangrams, cut out their own tangrams, and choose a character from the story to make using their tangram pieces.
The New York Times
Perspective and Leonardo’s “Perspectograph”
Filippo Brunelleschi's invention of linear perspective during the Renaissance was further developed by his apprentice, a young artist named Leonardo da Vinci. Now modern artists can give da Vinci's famous perspectograph a try with a...
Perkins School for the Blind
Which One is the Square?
Children who are blind need to constantly be engaged in building conceptual understandings of the world around them. This activity will help them grasp the concept of shape, identify shapes, and consider shapes as they are used to...
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Shape Hunt
Learners photograph shapes around their school and create a shape movie. In this shape hunting activity, students recognize shapes in a shape hunt. Learners can identify the shapes recorded by others in the class.
Achieve
Greenhouse Management
Who knew running a greenhouse required so much math? Amaze future mathematicians and farmers with the amount of unit conversions, ratio and proportional reasoning, and geometric applications involved by having them complete the...
Curated OER
Writing Takes Shape!
Students read The Greedy Triangle and discuss geometric solids. In this geometry lesson plan, students list the geo-solids in the world and create a graphic organizer to show where geo-solids exist.
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Shapes to Forms
Here is a math lesson plan that is really a visual arts lesson plan in disguise! In it, pupils utilize their knowledge of geometric shapes and forms to create a detailed version of a cylinder. The instructions on how to go about the task...
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Triangles and Things
Young learners listen to the story book The Greedy Triangle as the teacher introduces new polygon shapes. They use geometric stencils to trace a quadrilateral, a pentagon, a hexagon, and an octogon onto a foldable notepad. They identify...
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Volume and Surface Area
Students explore volume and surface area. In this math instructional activity, students fill boxes with cubes to identify the volume of the boxes. Students discuss area.
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Volume of Rectangular Prisms
Introduce the procedure needed to find the volume of a rectangular prism. Learners rank various prisms such as cereal boxes and tissue boxes from smallest to largest volume. They use an applet to find the volume and surface area of each...
Virginia Department of Education
Similar Solids and Proportional Reasoning
Double the dimensions, quadruple the surface area. Pairs build similar prisms and compare the ratios of their surface areas and volumes to the ratio of the heights. Given two similar cones, partners determine the ratios of the lateral...
Shodor Education Foundation
Volume of Prisms
Explore the concept of volume of prisms using an applet to perform the calculations. The link to the interactive applet is embedded into the lesson plan as well as a link to associated data sheets. Get your math class to the computer lab...
Curated OER
Worksheet 25 - Chain Rule
In this chain rule worksheet, students use the chain rule and substitution to find partial derivatives. They identify total surface area, and find the distance from the origin to the plane. This one-page worksheet contains seven...
Shodor Education Foundation
Surface Area of Rectangular Prism
With this interactive lesson plan, learners compute the surface area of rectangular prisms. They visit an online investigation applet and record data on the provided handout. Pair this lesson plan with the volume lesson plan by the same...