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PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Shape Hunt Activity Plan
Calling all Shape Detectives! In this weeklong adventure, the children will explore and search for basic shapes as they go on a shape hunt. They will describe, match, sort and compose a variety of two-dimensional shapes, and create a...
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Giraffian Kid's Stuff: Shapes and Colours
Students can mix and match shapes and colors in this simple learning activity.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Match Me!
In this activity, students move in a specific way in front of the motion detector to create motion plots that match a given Distance versus Time plot. They make connections between types of movements and characteristics of Distance-Time...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Shape Naming Activity
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a short activity designed as a starter for math class. Students are asked to match a shape to its name. Hints are provided that define each shape.
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Ez School: Match and Extend the Pattern Using Basic Shapes
An interactive activity where students choose the next shape in a simple pattern. Two levels of difficulty. Includes option of printing a worksheet.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Two Dimensional Shapes Identify and Match
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart helps students to analyze and compare various two-dimensional shapes according to the vertices, sides and parallel lines. It features "containers" created in Version 3 (can be used with...
Other
Global Classroom: Kidspiration Math Templates
Download the Kidspiration templates to be used as supplemental math resources. Templates include the following elementary math topics: fractional parts, ordering fractions, multiplication, place value, matching shapes, ordering numbers,...
PBS
Pbs Mathline Lesson: Geometry, It's a Perfect Fit [Pdf]
This two-part geometry lesson plan has students identify, describe, and classify two-dimensional shapes. Students engage in hands-on activities including identifying shapes in the classroom, creating patterns with shapes, identifying...
Scholastic
Scholastic: I Spy
These interactive matching games for elementary age students combine visuals of familiar objects and rhyming riddles to create brain-teasing puzzles.
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Pitara
This site from India provides a small collection of stories, poems, and activities that students can listen to online. In the activities section, students match animals with their shadows, answer vocabulary-related questions, and...
US National Archives
National Archives: Benjamin Franklin: Politician and Diplomat
Benjamin Franklin was the only man to help shape all the major documents that established the United States. Students will review those documents and match the correct document to its description. Upon completion, students will choose...
PBS
Pbs: Oops! A Game for Dealing With Embarrassment
Explore feelings of embarrassment and discuss ways to cope with those feelings. Match halves of patterned paper in the shape of pants and hang them on a "clothesline."