Students will explore shapes and their attributes through a variety of resources including web sites, story books and manipulatives. Students will create a presentation of a shape adventure.

Students will use their knowledge of plane figure attributes to create and view shapes by cutting and rotating shapes to stimulate discussions on names and attributes of various shapes they do not regularly encounter.

The Chinese character mark for Tan II (pronounced she-tow-bah) is the second of two lessons to introduce first grade students to geometry using tangrams. This lesson incorporates history, math, and language arts. In this lesson students...

This lesson plan walks learners through an exploration of two- and three-dimensional shapes. Students will create a PowerPoint and poster of themselves as a chosen shape. It also gives assessment and remediation ideas as well as ways to...

Origami (ori-folding, kami-paper) is the traditional Japanese art of folding paper. Students will discover relationships between shapes as they are actively engaged in this hands on geometry lesson to learn basic geometric shapes, their...

Archeologists, when classifying artifacts, often take note of the physical properties or attributes of artifacts, such as the materials from which the artifacts are made, and their size, shape, function, and decoration. Friezes are often...

This lesson plan is a unique and fun way to review perimeter, angles, and types of adjectives. Learners pick an object from the classroom that will fit in a paper lunch bag. They investigate their object and fill in the attached sheet....