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- Area of solids
- Finding area of rectangular solids and cylinders by cutting them into flat pieces and adding the areas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 7–12 Mathematics)
- By Dorothy Carawan.
- Congruent figures
- This is a fun, hands-on activity to help students identify congruent figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Robinson.
- Exploring geometric shapes
- These hands-on activities make learning about geometric shapes more appealing to students.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Debbie Fox.
- Flipping around pentominoes
- The students will use Unifix cubes to create the twelve different pentominoes. The students will join 5 Unifix cubes to make different shapes that will lie flat on a table or level surface. The students will then test for new shapes by flipping, sliding, or turning to create each different pentomino.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics)
- By Dianne Wingate.
- Hula hoop sorting
- Students will use two large hula hoops to form a Venn Diagram. Then, using various colored paper shapes, they will recognize, and identify circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, hexagons, trapezoids, and parallelograms.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Diane Jackson.
- Inside, outside, and all around
- Students will distinguish between perimeter, area, and volume. They will use tangrams and graph paper to create two-dimensional figures that will be measured for area and perimeter. By creating layers of centimeter cubes, the students will explore the concept of volume.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4–6 Mathematics)
- By Angeli Jarman.
- Investigating surface area
- This is a hands on lesson best used to introduce geometry students to 3-dimensional figures. Students will have the opportunity to draw 3-dimensionally and create collapsible figures which can be used to develop the standard surface area formulas.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–7 Mathematics)
- By Jennifer Bronzini.
- Is it open or closed?
- Students will identify and create open and closed figures using labeled cards and pipe cleaners.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Vickie Fender.
- 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.
- Painted cylindrical sculptures
- Students will experiment painting a variety of lines as directed in addition to inventing their own on 12" x 18" paper. Students will also glue pre-cut paper strips onto their sculptures experimenting with a variety of paper sculpture techniques such as bending, folding and curling.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Visual Arts Education and Mathematics)
- By Rose Szabo.
- Pattern block addition
- Students will practice addition, problem solving, and writing equations in the context of a fun and challenging pattern game.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 Mathematics)
- By Dawn Potter.
- 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, verticies, and edges of different 3-D polyhedra.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 Mathematics)
- By Julie Little.
- Reflection designs
- Students will be able to illustrate the geometric transformation of a reflection through creating their own unique designs.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 4 and 8 Mathematics)
- By Karen Boles.
- The shape of stuff
- This lesson will involve students identifying, describing, and making solid figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Bettie Davis.
- Step right up!
- The students will learn to name an ordered pair for a point and plot positions named by an ordered pair on a large grid located on the classroom floor.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3 and 5 Mathematics)
- By Shelley Dodson.
- Super shape shifter
- Students learn shapes and put them together to make other shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 Mathematics)
- By Becky Woolard.
- 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 2 Mathematics)
- By Rendy King.
- 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 1–3 Mathematics)
- By Dawn Coleman.
