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The Shape of Home

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students define home and understand that home is not the same to everyone. In this homes lesson, students participate individually and in groups to create a classroom definition of home. Students discuss the events in the story the Shape...
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Area of Shapes

For Students 7th - 9th
In this area of shapes worksheet, students determine the area of equilateral triangles, acute triangles, and compound figures. This one-page worksheet contains 3 multi-step problems.  Answers are provided with this interactive...
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Area of Geometric Shapes

For Students 8th - 10th
In this geometry activity, students solve for the area of polygons. They are given shaded shapes on a coordinate plane and asked to calculate the area. There are 2 questions with an answer key.
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Shape and Figure descriptions

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this shape and figure descriptions worksheet, students name the shape described and draw it. Students complete this for 2 shapes.
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Open and Closed Shapes

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this geometry skills worksheet, students examine 6 shapes and identify each of the shapes as either open shapes or closed shapes.
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Shape Matching Worksheet - Black and White

For Students K - 1st
In this geometry worksheet, learners draw a line from each geometric shape shown on the left to the matching shape on the right side of the page. They work with plane figures such as a triangle, an oval, a rectangle, and a hexagon.
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Trace the Shapes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this recognizing a square, circle, rectangle, and triangle worksheet, students trace each geometric shape. Students trace 8 shapes.
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Identifying Shapes

For Students 5th - 6th
In this shape worksheet, students draw lines to match shapes with their names. A reference web site is given for additional activities.
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Area of complex shapes with 90' angles

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this area learning exercise, students figure out the area of complex shapes containing 90' angles. Students find the area for 2 shapes.
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Shape Identification Worksheet

For Students K - 1st
For this shape identification worksheet, students mark the correct answer to each of 4 multiple choice questions while working on-line. They choose from 4 choices as they identify a square, triangle, circle, and rectangle. They print the...
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Shape Sorting

For Students Pre-K - K
In this sorting shapes worksheet, students cut and paste rectangles, ovals, triangles, and squares to match a pattern. Students cut and paste four shapes to create one pattern.
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Calculate Area of Complex Shapes with 90’ Angles

For Students 7th - 9th
In this geometry skills worksheet, students solve 2 problems that require them to calculate the area of complex shapes. Students should show their work in the space provided.
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Left and Right Worksheet - Colored Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
For this positions of objects worksheet, students practice recognizing left and right by circling the shapes according to the directions for 6 exercises.
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"Zigzag"

For Teachers K
Students listen to the book "Zigzag" by Robert D. San Souci, and examine the concepts of friendship, respect, and determination. They answer story comprehension questions, then create a fabric doll using the shapes from the book.
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Illustrative Mathematics

Grandfather Tang's Story

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
It's amazing the complex figures that can be made using only a few simple shapes. Following a class reading of the children's book Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, young mathematicians use sets of tangrams to create models...
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Living in a Geometrical World

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in a series of hand-on, online, and multimedia activities to examine 2 dimensional and 3 dimensional shapes. They describe common geometric solids. They construct rectangular prisms using straws and ribbon.
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Fractions

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Represent fractions visually using shape models. Scholars color in two sets of shapes to represent specific fractions: 2/3 and 3/4. The shapes are segmented into equivalent fractions for most of these, so scholars need to understand this...
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Butterflies and Bugs

For Teachers 2nd
Symmetry, line, shape, art, and math are all connected through a fun hands-on craft. Included are instructions to a classic activity, where learners create butterflies to show symmetry in nature and then discuss symmetry in math. It is...
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Volume of Pyramid

For Teachers 6th - 11th Standards
Go beyond the basic formulas and uncover the surface area and volume of 3-D shapes with this comprehensive and organized learning exercise packet. The problems include the basic formula computations while also challenging your learners...
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The Luxor Hotel Contract

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers determine the surface area of the Luxor Hotel, using the square feet of the base, volume, and the volume formula. They create a scale model of the triangular/pyramid shaped hotel.
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Bacteria - Our Invisible Friends

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A concise, yet comprehensive note-taking guide is provided by this collection of slides. Using the bullet-point format, the different types, shapes, and characteristics of bacteria are listed. This resource would be of great value as an...
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Different Types of Poetry

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Provide pupils samples of different types of poems including haikus, narrative, nonsense, shape, and rhyming poems. In groups, class members read the poems, establish their general meaning, identify poetic devices, and rate the poems,...
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Our States, My State

For Teachers K - 1st
Here is a very nice activity on the shape of the United States, and the shapes of the individual states for your young geographers. They utilize worksheets embedded in the plan to color in a variety of states and to become familiar with...
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Poems: calligrams

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Have fun with shape poems! First and second graders write calligrams that add to the meaning of their poems. Great for your poetry unit or if you want to combine poetry and art lessons. 

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