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- 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.
- Describing words: Go Away, Big Green Monster
- The students will use describing words in their writing based on the book Go Away, Big Green Monster while integrating math concepts about shapes.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K–1 English Language Arts and Mathematics)
- By Paula Jennings.
- 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.
- Grocery store matter
- The lesson stimulates students' thought processes and makes students aware of the things around them by teaching them about the three kinds of matter and their properties.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 1 English Language Arts and Science)
- By Indiana Jennette.
- 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.
- 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.
- The shape of stuff
- This lesson will involve students identifying, describing, and making solid figures.
- Format: lesson plan (grade K Mathematics)
- By Bettie Davis.
- 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.
- Tessellations with M.C. Escher
- This lesson familiarizes students with tessellations, designs created by images placed against each other with no empty spaces. It also introduces the work of M. C. Escher. It can be used in conjunction with math lessons in geometry.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 6–8 Visual Arts Education)
- By Judith Riddle.
- 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 2 Mathematics)
- By Julie Little.
