Introduce youngsters to the important role shape and form play in art with this extensive collection of activities and projects. From teaching first graders how to create mandalas to engaging third and fourth graders in the design...

Students create an Easter Basket stuffer. In this holiday art lesson, students melt crayons together over a small cooking pot and pour the melted crayons into a candy mold. Students let them dry and are able to color with the...

If you're finishing up a unit on cells, here's a great project to get kids collaborating and recalling what they've learned in a fun and tangible way. Small groups create plant or animal cells out of materials they have at home. They use...

Students read books, make turkey hands, eat gingerbread cookies, and more to learn about Thanksgiving. In this Thanksgiving lesson plan, students also write what they are thankful for.

Visit the Magic Treehouse and take your class on a trip through time with a reading of the children's book Mummies in the Morning. Using the story to spark an investigation into Egyptian culture, this literature unit engages...

What constitutes a good soap bubble? In the second installment of a nine-part series, scholars apply their understanding of surface tension to soap bubbles. They experiment to determine the best solutions to use for the...

Students complete a variety of activities to learn about crystals. In this crystals lesson plan, students paint with a crystal solution, pan for crystals, grow crystals, and more.

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.

Interactive lessons featuring 2-D and 3-D shapes, angles, time, and symmetry. For each section, play a learning game, read a lesson that includes comprehensive vocabulary, and take a quiz to find out what you've learned.

This lesson describes three dimensional shapes and provides two interactive practice activities.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will click on the point of the word and drag it to the correct figure. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.

Predict which solid shape constructions would be unstable as shown at this one page website. Solutions are available right at the website.

A math challenge where geometry, measurement, and problem solving meet. Explore the properties of three dimensional shapes when you discover how six friends can equally divide a nine inch square chocolate cake. A one page activity from...

A geodesic dome is constructed using newspaper for this activity. The activity is accompanied by a lesson plan, and a link to a 'Shapes Lab' where you can see through animation the strength of various shapes for construction.

Print out these colorfully illustrated PDF file pages to practice learning your basic three dimensional geometric solids. Fold them in half and one side shows the shape while the other side shows the shape with the correct name. Put them...

Work with this cube problem and see if you can find a pattern. Then you can check your solution with solutions already submitted.

You don't have to be a trained artist to create beautiful two and three-dimensional art projects with your preschoolers. Many simple activities, such as painting and coloring, can be modified to include sensory elements to increase...

This lesson offers an interesting, hands-on experience for middle school students studying cylinders. Students will create cylinders, and measure and compare their volumes.

This site offers a variety of art lessons that use various media. Each project includes instructions and pictures of the students' completed artwork.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students determine the volume of a cylinder by moving the points on the can of soup. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students can adjust the points on a sports ball to determine the surface area and volume. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will explore cross sections and nets of three dimensional objects. Click challenge me to answer practice questions and click learn more to watch a video.

Excellent interactive challenge working with cube nets to stack them in a specific order. Manipulate the cubes online to solve the problem.

Given an unlimited number of a specific type of equilateral, isosceles, and right triangles create as many tetrahedra as are possible. Includes printout.