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Shapes!
Explore five basic shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, and stars with youngsters. They will participate in hands-on activities, draw each shape, name each shape. They also get to eat things that are in the shapes they have just...
Curated OER
Shape Sort
Sorting is a great way to familiarize learners with basic shapes in this partner activity. Pairs have sixteen shape cards with various sizes and types of triangles, rectangles, hexagons, and squares. They have four category cards in...
Curated OER
Recognize and Draw Shapes
Each of these 10 shapes comes with a question for learners to answer as they analyze its attributes. They examine the following shapes: hexagon, trapezoid, pentagon, circle, diamond, parallelogram, rectangle, triangle,...
Curated OER
Circles, Squares, Triangles and Rectangles In Our World
Here is an engaging geometry lesson which has students identify the properties of shapes and cut shapes out of magazines. They make cookies using cookie cutters in various shapes.
Novelinks
The House on Mango Street: Vocabulary Word Squares
Chanclas, muerto, cuando. Spanish words are plentiful in The House on Mango Street and may be unfamiliar to many readers. A vocabulary words squares activity will help kids remember the meaning of these words and add to their...
Curated OER
Squares
In this shape recognition worksheet, students explore a square. Students trace the shape of the square and trace the letters that spell the word square.
Curated OER
Square Shape
In this recognizing the shape of squares worksheet, students trace a square, color the squares on a picture of a house, and draw a square. Students complete 5 activities.
Curated OER
Factoring Perfect Squares
In this factoring worksheet, students factor perfect squares. Explanations and examples are provided at the beginning of the worksheet. This two-page worksheet contains ten problems.
Curated OER
Geometry: Shapes-Squares, Rectangles and Triangles
In this geometry activity, students distinguish which of eight shapes are squares, rectangles and/or triangles. Students write the name of each shape on the lines provided.
Curated OER
Shapes and Colors Practice- Squares
In this geometric shapes instructional activity, students learn to recognize the square shape. Students analyze a picture of birthday packages and trace the squares and color them red.
Curated OER
Shapes and Colors- Square Pyramid
In this geometric shapes worksheet, learners recognize the square shapes in a pyramid picture. Students trace the squares and color them each a different color.
Curated OER
ExplorA-Pond: 4th Grade Perimeter Estimation
Your geometers are used to finding the perimeter of a square or rectangle, so give them something different this time! With this lesson, small groups will receive a picture of a shoreline and calculate the perimeter. The website listed...
Curated OER
Fractions and Measurement
Using a Smart Board, or a plain ol' white board or chalkboard, the teacher pulls up a grid and demonstrates how squares and rectangles can be divided up into equal parts. The class will get their own graph paper to draw shapes and divide...
Curated OER
Incomplete Dominant and Codominant Traits Worksheet
A two-page instructional activity provides seven Punnett squares for practice in determining genotypes and phenotypes. Each is an example of incomplete dominance or codominance. After your bright biologists have mastered Punnett squares,...
EngageNY
Comparing Quadratic, Square Root, and Cube Root Functions Represented in Different Ways
Need a real scenario to compare functions? This lesson has it all! Through application, individuals model using different types of functions. They analyze each in terms of the context using the key features of the graphs.
CK-12 Foundation
Sequence of Partial Sums: Partial Sums
Have some fun building squares out of triangles. Pupils investigate the partial sums of odd numbers. Using the sum of the first four odd numbers, learners see that it can be rewritten as a sum containing a triangular number. Simplifying...
Curated OER
Recognize Squares
In this observation of squares instructional activity, students identify the square figures. In this coloring instructional activity, students identify six squares.
Math Worksheets Land
Recognize Area Word Problems - Independent Practice Worksheet
If a rectangle has three columns and four rows, how many squares does it have inside? Learners draw 10 rectangles based on specified rows and columns, counting the number of resulting squares. Keep in mind you may want to explain that...
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Recognize Area Word Problems - Guided Lesson
Approach geometry concepts with youngsters using visual guides like this one to find area. They draw a rectangle, segmenting it into rows and columns. Scholars determine how many square units they see in the partitioned rectangle. They...
Curated OER
Candide: Word Squares
Readers of Voltaire’s satire create a word square for vocabulary drawn from Candide. The first box contains the word, the second a picture or illustration of the word. The definition is written in the third box, and learners write a...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Are You a Square or a Rectangle?
Discover the difference between standard and non-standard units of measure with your class. They differentiate between rectangles and squares, read a book, measure a peer's height. They then discuss measurement methods, make...
Curated OER
The Shapes of Sports
Bring shapes onto the pitching mound! There are two diagrams here depicting a basketball court and a baseball field. Learners identify the shapes they recognize on each. They get a little guidance for the first one, but you should note...
Curated OER
Completing the Square Algebraically
Using TI-Nspire, scholars rewrite quadratic expressions by completing the square. They change the equation into vertex form. By the end of this lesson, they should be able to change any quadratic equation into vertex form.
Texas Instruments
Trisecting a Square
High Schoolers investigate the question of whether or not the area of square can be trisected. In this lesson, they use geometry software to answer the questions and determine what conditions are necessary to the three regions to by equal.