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Cut, Construct and Think 3

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify and create shapes. In this geometric shapes lesson, students identify various polygons and try to create new shapes using existing polygons.
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Cut, Construct and Think - 4

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students identify polygons. In this geometric shapes lesson plan, students identify and describe polygons. Students create new shapes out of the shapes they are given.
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Trace a Face

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students find two dimensional shapes in three dimensional figures. They determine the shapes that make up the faces of three dimensional figures of common classroom objects such as crayon boxes.
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Where is Triangle?

For Teachers K
Students listen to songs to discover different shapes. They tape the shapes to their fingers and when they sing about that shape they are to show the shapes to each other.
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Imagination Travel

For Teachers K
Students watch video segments on shapes and patterns. They create their own pattern within shapes.
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Puzzled?

For Teachers 1st
First graders practice identifying simple geometric shapes. As a class, they discuss positional words and review the words for simple shapes and their characteristics. They work together to create their own puzzle using the shapes.
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Tiling the Plane

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use pattern blocks and triangular grid paper to review shape names, be introduced to the concept of a tiling of the plane, and determine which pattern blocks tile the plane. They are asked: "Have you ever seen a floor or a wall...
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Dango

For Teachers K - 4th
Pupils discuss lines, shapes, patterns, and colors used in Jun Kaneko's piece Untitled (Dango). In groups, they help make a paper Mache replica and demonstrate their understanding of lines, shapes patterns, and colors by painting their...
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3-D Paper Sculpture

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Young scholars explore characteristics of geometric shapes. They participate in a paper folding activity to create various geometric shapes. Students design a mobile of the shapes they have created.
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Making Nets for Solids

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders are introduced to a variety of two-dimensional shapes. Individually, they are given a cube, cylinder and cone and take apart each shape. While taking them apart, they discuss how the two-dimensional shape was created.
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Cutting Sandwiches

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students discuss shapes and their characteristics. As a class, they explore shapes made from a square. Students explore triangles, squares, fractions of a square such as a half and a quarter. Individually, they complete worksheets, and...
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Make-Your-Own Math Practice

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students create their own math practice book. In these homemade book lessons, students create their own counting, number, and shape pages. When the pages are complete, they are bound together in a book.
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Geo Jammin' - Day 4, Lesson 13: Where, Oh Where, Can the Geo Be?

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to a story "My Crazy Dream" with an intent to identify shapes in ordinary objects. They raise their hands when they've heard an object whose shape they can identify. They discuss their findings.
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Flag Folding

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students study the effects of combining, subdividing, and changing basic shapes to figure out the official method for folding the US flag. They complete a prediction sheet to determine how to get the flag folded so that only the blue...
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Triangles Are Not Bad!

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate stereotypes and diversity by performing a play about shapes entitled, "Triangles Are Not Bad!" They role play as the shapes who each feel they are superior to the rest.
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Rectangles and Squares

For Teachers K - 1st
Students identify two dimensional shapes in the school environment. In this basic shapes activity, students watch a video about rectangles and squares. Students find examples shapes in their classroom and draw them. Students present...
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Congruency Basics

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate congruent shapes. In this congruency lesson plan, 4th graders explore examples of congruent shapes. Students determine how to check for congruency by sliding or flipping the shape.
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Geo Jammin'

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students compare and contrast related two- and three-dimensional shapes, and complete a Venn diagram illustrating the attributes of each. Using a poem pattern from another lesson, students use data from the diagram to write an attribute...
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Geo Jammin' By DeSign - Day 2, Lesson 7: Start At Square One

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine new shape possibilities by combining two and four triangles using manipulatives.
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The Folding Problem

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders experiment with paper folding to create geometrical shapes. Students analyze the Copymaster of the problem. After the students have worked on their own for a while, stop them and discuss.
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Building With Triangles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners participate in a unit on triangles. Through the unit they explore different way to make basic shapes using triangles. They also examine the basic properties of triangles and the relationships among basic geometrical shapes in...
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Arti'stick Mobile

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students examine works of stained glass in one dimensional art form then adapt it a three dimensional transparent mobile. They create their mobile using patterns of shapes and simple images from computer line art, printed art books or...
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Cover the Triangle

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Pupils explore geometric shapes using pattern blocks. They use specific shapes to fill in triangles, color-in their solutions, and discuss the results with a partner.
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Estimating Volumes Of Household Containers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in a the estimation of volume for household containers and focus upon the usage of the metric system. They practice identifying the shapes that seem familiar and match shapes with quantities. Students interact with others...

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