Lesson Plan
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)...
Interactive
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Nctm: Illuminations: Geometric Solids

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interactive game to find number of edges, surfaces and vertices of different geometric shapes.
Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: List of Different Types of Geometric Shapes

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
A comprehensive list of 2D shapes and 3D solids with everything from a triangle to a dodecahedron. Includes illustrations and short descriptions of attributes for each.
Article
Creative Science Centre

Creative Science Centre: Drawing the Football

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explores the shape, symmetry and surface structure of a football (or soccer ball, depending on your nationality) to see how this understanding can help one draw these sorts of complex shapes.
Interactive
Doina Popovici

Math Play: 3 D Shapes

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
Name various 3D shapes in this online game.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: 7.g Cube Ninjas!

For Teachers 7th
In this lesson, 7th graders slice three dimensional objects to determine what two dimensional shape is created.
Lesson Plan
Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: G Mg Ice Cream Cone

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
You have been hired by the owner of a local ice cream parlor to assist in his company's new venture. The company will soon sell its ice cream cones in the freezer section of local grocery stores. The manufacturing process requires that...
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: 3 D Space

For Students 2nd - 4th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills using a real life scenario. Those skills include identifying 3D objects, identifying the similarities and differences in prisms and pyramids, and drawing 3D shapes such as...
eBook
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Interactive Geometry: 1.11 Surface Area and Nets

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Explore surface areas and nets with 2D and 3D shapes.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: New Boxes From Old

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students find the volume and surface area of a rectangular box (e.g., a cereal box), and then figure out how to convert that box into a new, cubical box having the same volume as the original. As they construct the new, cube-shaped box...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Cube Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this calculator to calculate unknown variables for a cube such as a side length, face diagonal, solid diagonal, surface area, and volume.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Surface Area Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
Online calculator to calculate the surface area of geometric solids including a capsule, cone, frustum, cube, cylinder, hemisphere, pyramid, rectangular prism, sphere, spherical cap, and triangular prism
Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs: Black Kingdoms of the Nile

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A geometry lesson that examines the history and structure of ancient pyramids and engages students in constructing pyramid models. A comprehensive lesson that considers students with diverse learning styles. Math concepts introduced...
Unit Plan
Math2

Math2.org: Areas, Volumes, Surface Areas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site gives formulas for the area, volume, and surface area of various shapes.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Floaters and Sinkers

For Teachers 6th - 9th
This lesson introduces learners to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Learners devise methods to determine...
eBook
Mathigon

Mathigon: Geometry: Circle and Pi: Conic Sections

For Students 9th - 10th
The circle is one of four different shapes which can be created using "slices" through a cone, a 3-dimensional solid that has a circular base joined to a single point (called the vertex) by a curved side. If you tilt a cone, you get an...
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Tube Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This calculator will calculate the various properties of a tube, also called a pipe or hollow cylinder, given 3 known values from variables of radii, circumference, wall thickness and height.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Conical Frustum Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a conical frustum given the 2 radii and any 1 other known variable.
Interactive
Calculator Soup

Calculator Soup: Cone Calculator

For Students 9th - 10th
This online calculator will calculate the various properties of a right circular cone given any 2 known variables.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Crystal Painting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From the Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE) program. A lesson plan in which students explore the nature and structure of a variety of naturally occurring crystals, such as quartz, fluorite, citrine,...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Comparing Volumes of Cylinders, Spheres, and Cones

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This interactive exercise focuses on comparing volumes between figures that have the same height and diameter and drawing conclusions based on the ratios of the sizes.
Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Math: Pizza (Italian) Restaurant: Prisms and Pyramids

For Students 4th - 6th
On this interactive website students practice various math skills including naming prisms and pyramids, drawing cross sections of prisms and pyramids, and exploring three-dimensional views.

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