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An artistic view of outer space: This is an art lesson easily integrated by art specialists or classroom teachers into any thematic unit that involves space, the solar system, or science fiction and is adaptable for students in grades 2 through 6. It incorporates the use of art materials such as oil pastels and compasses and the design concepts of shape and balance in a composition as well as providing the students with a fun and creative way to explore areas of geometry and science. This lesson is especially useful for classroom teachers who are aware of how art, when integrated into the classroom curriculum, can help students with different learning styles explore a variety of subjects in a way that will help them maximize the learning experience.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 6 Visual Arts Education, Mathematics, and Science); By Karen Canfield.

Congruent Figures: This is a fun "hands-on" activity to help students identify congruent figures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Jennifer Robinson.

Exploring Geometric Shapes: These hands-on activities make learning about geometric shapes more appealing to students.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts and Mathematics); By Debbie Fox.

A Geometric 'Field Trip': Students conduct a 'field trip' around the school (inside and out) looking for examples of geometric shapes. They record their findings using a digital camera and present their findings in a multimedia presentation.; Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Information Skills, English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Computer Technology Skills); By Mary Rizzo.

The Greedy Triangle: Students review geometric terms by making predictions about what the Greedy Triangle will become as the teacher reads the book, The Greedy Triangle. Students will create geometric creatures after the review.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Renee Allen.

Monster Symmetry: Students will make a "monster" through symmetry using white paper, pencils, and scissors. This activity will help students visualize how to identify objects that can be divided symmetrically.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Mary Allen.

Origami Geometry: Students apply their knowledge of geometric terms to follow directions while folding an origami sculpture. Students then solve math problems which relate to the project with follow-up discussions about the project relating to geometric terms such as symmetry, faces, edges, square, triangle, plane, etc.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics); By Cherl Hollada, Libby Morrison, Michelle Kaczynski, and Susan Pope.

Our geometric world: The students will use newspaper and magazine pictures to recognize geometric figures within the real world. They will make a collage of pictures showing various geometric shapes. They will write a summary of the shapes that are represented in their collage.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Robin Ward.

Paint Tools & Geometric Figures: This lesson is meant to teach or review for third grade students the use of "Paint" tools. These tools are generic to many multimedia tools such as "HyperStudio" and "Kid Pics." For the student who is unfamilar with "Paint," it provides another tool of expression and illustration.

This lesson is also designed to reinforce geometry math skills. This ability to illustrate a three dimensional object on a flat one dimensional surface is important to enable the student to visualize geometry math problems.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Computer Technology Skills and Mathematics); By Barbara Waters.

Polyhedra: Faces, Edges, and Verticies (3-D Marshmallow Models): Students will review the names of 3 dimensional shapes, create the shapes using marshmallows and toothpicks, and find relationships among the faces, veriticies, and edges of different 3-D polyhedra.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Julie Little.

Solid Graphing: The students will review solid figures using a baggie of assorted snack mix (cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres) and will begin a vertical bar graph showing the number of each solid figure in a bag of assorted snack mix.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Lisa Fletcher.

"Talking Geometry" Through Quilts: This lesson plan is designed to use quilts as a visual prompt to review mathematics vocabulary associated with geometry in the third grade curriculum. A hands-on activity serves as a practice and review at the conclusion of this lesson.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Rendy King.

Tangram Magic: This lesson will involve students in the use of tangrams and how they are used to create different figures.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 English Language Arts, Computer Technology Skills, and Mathematics); By Alta Allen.

Tangrams: While reading Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert, students will be using tangrams to create the animals that the fox fairies are turning themselves into in this story.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Dawn Coleman.

Winter Congruent and Symmetrical Shapes: Students learn about congruency and symmetry. They complete a symmetrical tree that is complete with congruent ornaments.; Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); By Julie Little.

Construct a solid: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students use an online, interactive activity to analyze characteristics and properties of three-dimensional geometric shapes. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Constructing a three-dimensional model: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students build a three-dimensional model of a clubhouse from two-dimensional blueprints designed in an earlier lesson. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics); Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Creating a two-dimensional blueprint: In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from Illuminations, students draw two-dimensional blueprints, on graph paper, of clubhouses they have designed. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 2–3 Mathematics); Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Cylinders and scale: This lesson, from Science NetLinks, teaches students that most things have built-in limits in scale, but that knowing an object's extreme limits of scale can be revealing. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Mathematics); Provider: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Describing data: In this lesson, students create glyphs based on the characteristics of their names. (Learn more); Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics); Provider: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics