What do students love more than building? Building with marshmallows! In this lesson, students get to build shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. Included are an extensive lesson plan, a video showing examples, a worksheet, and ideas...

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will work with 3-Dimensional shapes identifying attributes of the shapes and recreating them. Students will create, identify and describe 3-Dimensional shapes as part of the...

This task challenges a student to demonstrate understanding of the attributes of two-dimensional shapes.

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...

A comprehensive guide for learning all about plane shapes with definitions, properties, types, solved examples, and practice questions.

Explore the world of solid shapes in this mini-lesson. Provides a definition, interactive examples, and interesting practice questions that help with understanding.

Introduces the concept of 3D shapes by learning the definition, types, properties, and three dimensions. Check-out the solved examples for better understanding and try your hand at solving a few interactive questions at the end of the page.

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]

A comprehensive guide for learning all about concave shapes with definitions, the difference between concave and convex, examples, and practice questions.

In this lesson, students will watch videos about shapes and identify shapes in their environment and in art. Links to the videos are at the bottom of the lesson overview, other material links are also provided.

Today students will focus on replicating 2-D shapes that are flashed before their eyes and then continue working with pattern blocks activities.

Lesson plans for students to learn the attributes of common 2D shapes. Lesson includes introduction, guided practice, and independent practice.

Second graders need to share their understandings of lines, line segments, shapes and attributes.

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...

Two and three-dimensional geometric shape are explored in these exercises. Each activity has teacher notes, activity instructions, and a worksheet when necessary.

Throughout the activities in this investigation, students may have wondered how a boat made out of steel, which is more dense than water, can float. This activity addresses that question. Students will see that changing the shape of an...

Science fair project tests whether students can construct a shape out of clay that will float.

Describing 3D shapes in Pre-K and Kindergarten is now an expectation as it is a key geometry standard. This resource contains 3D shapes activities and resources for practicing this standard. Included are chants, videos, games, poetry,...

Definition of shape as it applies to the visual arts with examples by Duchamp and McKnight. Links to definitions of other elements of art.

I love graphic organizers. My students will increase their vocabularies by learning more 2D shape terms through the use of a graphic organizer.

Students will identify the attributes of shapes and use those attributes to draw and describe shapes. This activity contains a detailed plan, pictures of student work, and videos of the activity in action.

Use this applet to sort shapes according to their properties using Venn diagrams.

Second graders will be able to identify 2-dimensional shapes and tell the number of vertices and sides.

Here is a lesson plan that will allow your students to learn about melodies and their shapes. Recognizing when the notes are high or low and if they move up or down will help your students understand melodic contour.