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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan

For Teachers Pre-K - K Standards
Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Which Shape [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
This task challenges a student to use knowledge of geometrical attributes to identify and describe shapes.
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PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape It Up Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
Get your spy glasses ready! In this weeklong adventure, children will explore shapes and their attributes and use this knowledge to decode a secret message. Children will learn about two-dimensional (flat) and three-dimensional (solid)...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Shape Changing With the Cyber Squad

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
In this project, you will make 2-dimensional templates, called nets, that fold up into 3-dimensional (3-D) shapes. By making shapes of different sizes, you will be able to see how 3-D shapes change with size. In your findings you will...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Columns: Finding the Strongest Shape

For Students 2nd - 8th
In this video segment, members of the ZOOM cast experiment by bending and folding sheets of paper into various shapes to see which shape will support the weight of a heavy book. [3:33]
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Topmarks Online

Topmarks: Shape Patterns

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Shape Patterns is a sequencing game where children from 3 to 8 years of age need to complete the pattern of different coloured 2D shapes. Three levels of difficulty.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Identifying 2 D Shapes

For Teachers 2nd Standards
In this activity, 2nd graders will identify shapes found around the room by recognizing their attributes such as number of angles, vertexes, and faces.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Shape Makers

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
In this Five E's AMSTI lesson, students discover relationships between shapes. Students discover multiple ways to combine shapes to fill the area of a given shape using real and virtual pattern blocks, and share their solutions with...
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Concord Consortium

The Concord Consortium: What Are Proteins and How Do They Fold Into Biologically Important Shapes?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this learning module from The Concord Consortium, students will investigate how polar and nonpolar regions in big molecules interact to result in certain shapes and properties for those molecules.
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Sea Studios Foundation

Shape of Life: The Story of the Animal Kingdom

For Students 9th - 10th
Shape of Life is a series of videos which explore the evolution of the animal kingdom. Discover those who study animals and the methods in which these scientists use to learn more about them.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Making New Shapes With Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
My first graders have been studying the defining attributes of 2D shapes. They are going to love using toothpicks and marshmallows to present their knowledge of 2D and create 3D shapes.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Identifying Plane Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders begin to learn about plane shapes in Kindergarten. This lesson will serve as review of plane shapes' characteristics and extend into practice in categorizing shapes by defining attributes.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape a Child's Brain

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Orphans' Lonely Beginnings Reveal How Parents Shape a Child's Brain" by Jon Hamilton, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Building With Shapes

For Teachers 1st Standards
I love blending art and math. I want my students to develop a depth of knowledge for 2D plane shapes and distinguish polygon from non-polygon shapes.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: What Is the Shape of a Molecule?

For Students 9th - 10th
George Zaidan and Charles Morton shape our image of molecules. [3:47]
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Subtraction With Perimeter & Shapes

For Teachers 3rd Standards
Subtraction problems can involve shapes, attributes and perimeter.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Challenge Problems: Circumscribing Shapes

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Solve two challenging problems that apply properties of tangents to find the perimeter of a circumscribing shape.
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Doina Popovici

Math Play: 3 D Shapes Game: Concentration

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
A matching game where students match the name of the shape with the image of the shape.
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Doina Popovici

Math Play: Basic Shapes Game

For Students 2nd - 4th
Recognize several basic shapes in this online game that test your knowledge of shapes!
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Shape Builder

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This activity operates in one of two modes: auto draw and create shape mode, allowing you to explore relationships between area and perimeter.
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Shodor Education Foundation

Shodor Interactivate: Venn Diagram Shape Sorter

For Students 9th - 10th
Sort colored shapes into a Venn diagram based on various characteristics.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Molecular Shapes

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from ChemThink, students will learn about covalent molecules and how the VSEPR theory predicts the shapes of covalently-bonded molecules.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: "Shape Up or Ship Out"

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
For this activity, students will identify shapes that architects use to build houses. Students will then explore these shapes by building a model "dream" home.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in Math and...
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University of Texas

Inside Mathematics: Quilt Making [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the concept of two dimensional shapes and their properties.

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