Better Lesson: Identifying Plane Shapes

Students roll their way to a better understanding of basic shapes with this printable dice template. Including colorful pictures of two-dimensional shapes on each of its six sides, this resource provides a fun learning experience for...

Shapes are everywhere in the world around us, from rectangular doors to the circular wheels of a car. The second instructional activity in this series opens the eyes of young mathematicians to this wonderful world of shapes as they...

Add some visual support to your elementary geometry lessons with this set of printable shape cards. From triangles and squares to octagons and nanogons, this simple resource can be used in countless ways to develop children's knowledge...

How many of 2-D or plane shapes can your class identify? Can they get them all? Little learners view and review the names of nine different shapes, such as rectangle, square, triangle, and circle, to name a few.

As the green squares are removed, a little piece of the puzzle is revealed. What is it? A square, a triangle, a cow? Have your class guess their way to identifying five different plane shapes.

Help your students explore shapes. They classify shapes and identify them in their everyday world. Plane shapes are explored, and they classify and identify the plane shapes.

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

Clean Up this Mess! The classroom shapes are in one big heap. Students will work in teams to come up with a way to sort the shapes by attributes and create a visual representation to model their thinking. Pictures and videos of the...

In this lesson on plane shapes, students will learn to identify 2D shapes by their attributes, and will apply these shapes to those in the world around them.

Play to review the various properties that help us identify 2-D shapes. Five different shapes are presented first by their properties only, these clues are then used to identify each shape. This is a great warm up activity, especially...