Can You Get the Turtle to the Pond?  Lessons for using LOGO.   

Describe the Shape:  Students learn to identify a square, triangle, rhombus, trapezoid, and hexagon.

Geometry:   These pages teach geometry facts covered in K8 math courses. Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about geometry.          

Geometry Ideas for the primary classroom. 

Geometry Classroom Materials:  From the folks at the Math Forum.   

Intro to Symmetry for primary students.

Ladybug Adventures - Learning Geometry and Measurement Concepts
by Creating Paths and Navigating Mazes.

Links Learning - Tangrams:  Illustrated lesson on tangrams.

Making Triangles and Polygons:  Use an interactive geoboard to make triangles and polygons to share with your friends.      

Math Lingo: Play Math Lingo with Geometry Vocabulary.    

Make A Tangram:  create a virtual tangram.

MegaShapes:  Explore the properties of 2D shapes using fun, interactive activities. 

Mouse House:  Join Mouse Lloyd Wright to build the perfect mouse house.

Origami Diagrams on the Web:  Easy to follow directions for using Geometric shapes to make easy, intermediate, and complex creations.  

Pattern Blocks:  Flip and rotate blocks to learn about shapes and proportions.

Polygon Playground - Have fun with polygons at the playground.    

Practice and Reteaching Activities for Geometry.      

RoboPacker: Slide, turn, and flip the geometric robots.      

Shape Clusters: Here are books, activities and experiments about shapes.        

Shape Finder - This site offers a simple shape identification game that may be used to reinforce students' knowledge of basic geometric figures.     

Shape Up with Geometry:  The main focus of this unit is the introduction, identification,
and exploration of basic geometric shapes. Attribute blocks, pattern blocks, tangrams, mirrors, and real world objects, as well as computer software and web based activities are used in the active learning portions of the lessons.

Virtual Manipulatives:  online manipulatives to meet the NCTM Geometry standard.

Activities that discuss using math in the home

African American Quilts:  Recognizing shapes and everyday objects.  

Bricks Activity:  This activity uses a true to life situation to stimulate students' thinking skills.

Cadbury - Math in the Factory!  Can you find the perfect shape for chocolate?

Construction Ahead!...Students design stronger and more efficient houses for the three little pigs.

Exploring Connections Between Mathematics and Art
Geometry:   These pages teach geometry facts covered in K8 math courses. Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about geometry.   

Geometry Classroom Materials:  From the folks at the Math Forum.  

Geometric Shapes in Architecture...Basic geometric shapes are used in architecture. 

Grandfather's Tang's Virtual Tangrams 

  
Identify and use a variety of shapes to make a hat

Ladybug Adventures - Learning Geometry and Measurement Concepts
by Creating Paths and Navigating Mazes.

Links Learning - Line Symmetry:  Illustrated lesson on line symmetry.

Math Lingo: Play Math Lingo with Geometry Vocabulary.

Origami Diagrams on the Web:  Easy to follow directions for using Geometric shapes to make easy, intermediate, and complex creations.                     

Pattern Blocks:  Flip and rotate blocks to learn about shapes and proportions.

Polygon Playground - Have fun with polygons at the playground.

ReviseWise Math - Shapes:  What do you look for in a 2D shape?   

RoboPacker: Slide, turn, and flip the geometric robots.  

Shape Up with Geometry:  The main focus of this unit is the introduction, identification,
and exploration of basic geometric shapes. Attribute blocks, pattern blocks, tangrams, mirrors, and real world objects, as well as computer software and web based activities are used in the active learning portions of the lessons.    

Thinking Fountain - Bubbles:  Can you make a square bubble?

Symmetry Around the World:  See symmetry in animals.   

Virtual Manipulatives:  online manipulatives to meet the NCTM Geometry standard.  

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Area and Volume...Describe the difference between area and volume.   

Construction Ahead!...Students design stronger and more efficient houses for the three little pigs.    

Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties: An interactive investigation of solids.     

Geometry:   These pages teach geometry facts covered in K8 math courses. Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about geometry.

Geometry Classroom Materials:  From the folks at the Math Forum.

The Greedy Triangle:  Students will listen to The Greedy Triangle and use geoboards to create various polygons.  

Geometric Shapes...Students will be able to identify geometric shapes.

Geometry in Life Collage...Students will become familiar with geometric shapes.

Geometry Quilts:  Use symmetry to build an online quilt block.

Identifying and Classifying Polygons...Defines polygons and discusses how polygons are found in the classroom.

In I Took a Trip on a Train, you get a map and some snapshots and have to put the snapshots in order.    

Math Lingo: Play Math Lingo with Geometry Vocabulary.

Math Playground:  Find the area and perimeter of a rectangle to create a playground.                     

MegaShapes Shapebook: Learn about symmetry, transformations, and tessellations.  

Origami Diagrams on the Web:  Easy to follow directions for using Geometric shapes to make easy, intermediate, and complex creations.   

Paper Quilts:   In this Unit Plan, students investigate fractional parts of the whole and use translation, reflection, rotation, and line symmetry to make Four Part quilt squares.  

Polygon Playground - Have fun with polygons at the playground. 

Practice and Reteaching Activities for Geometry.

ReviseWise Math - Shapes:  What do you look at in a 3D shape?        

RoboPacker: Slide, turn, and flip the geometric robots.  

Symmetry Around the World:  See symmetry in animals, plants, sand, letters, carparks and even more. 

Tangrams:  Test your Geometry knowledge by completing one of the cool tangram puzzles.        

Virtual Manipulatives:  online manipulatives to meet the NCTM Geometry standard.

Volume...Estimate, measure, record, compare, and order objects and containers.

Volume of the mouth...Learn to measure the volume of an irregularly-shaped container.

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Area and Volume...Describe the difference between area and volume. 

Bathroom Tiles:  While Pythagoras takes a bath, figure out how to rotate, reflect and translate the patterns on the bathroom tiles. 

BrainPOP - Short video on identifying polygons.      

BrainPOP - Short video on measuring circles.

Designing and Building a Montessori Playground:  A webquest

Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties: An interactive investigation of solids.             

Far Out Math:  Use Geometry to understand the relative sizes of the Earth and it's moon and demonstrate the immensity of the solar system. 

Geometry:   These pages teach geometry facts covered in K8 math courses. Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about geometry.

Geometry Classroom Materials:  From the folks at the Math Forum.    

Geometry Flashcards:  Use your knowledge of geometry to earn the highest score.

Geometry in Life Collage...Students will become familiar with geometric shapes.

Geometric Madness!  A unit, complete with resources, about polygons,, triangles,
quadrilaterals, and tessellations.

Geometry Review:  an animated review of important concepts.

Geometric Shapes...Students will be able to identify geometric shapes                

Geometry Quilts:  Use symmetry to build an online quilt block.

Identifying and Classifying Polygons...Defines polygons and discusses how polygons are found in the classroom.

Lesson on Circumference:  from Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies.     

Lesson on Area:  From Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies. 

MathsNet - Three-dimensional shapes:  Interactive applet showing how shapes are made up from their nets.   

Measurement...area and perimeter... Not all items with the same perimeter have the same area.

MegaShapes Shapebook: Learn about symmetry, transformations, and tessellations.

Nuts About Geometry:  A Thinkquest site.

Origami Diagrams on the Web:  Easy to follow directions for using Geometric shapes to make easy, intermediate, and complex creations.

ReviseWise Math - Shapes:  Can you select a shape and show its properties? 

Shape Surveyor:  You'll never know what you'll find if you dig Geometry.    

Tangrams:  Test your Geometry knowledge by completing one of the cool tangram puzzles.       

Virtual Manipulatives:  online manipulatives to meet the NCTM Geometry standard.

Volume...Estimate, measure, record, compare, and order objects and containers.

Volume of the mouth...Learn to measure the volume of an irregularly-shaped container.

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Angles...Students determine the number of degrees of an angle.

BrainPOP - Short video on finding the area of a Parallelogram.   

BrainPOP - Short video on finding the area of a polygon.  

BrainPOP - Short video on measuring angles.     

Chickscope:  What shape is an egg?  

Cube Coloring Problem..."Investigate what happens when different size cubes are constructed from unit cubes, the surface areas are painted, and taken apart"   

Cynthia Lanius' Fractal Lesson:  This web site helps kids understand what those weird pictures are all about.      

Discovering Pi...Explains the use of pi. 

Exploring Geometric Solids and Their Properties: An interactive investigation of solids. 

Figures and Polygons:  A glossary of Geometric terms.    

Geometry:   These pages teach geometry facts covered in K8 math courses. Each page has an explanation, interactive practice and challenge games about geometry.

Geometry Classroom Materials:  From the folks at the Math Forum.     

Geometry Flashcards:  Use your knowledge of geometry to earn the highest score.

Geometric Madness!  A unit, complete with resources, about polygons, triangles,
quadrilaterals, and tessellations.    

Geometry of the Ancients:  An exploration of area, perimeter, and volume.  Be sure to click on Applications.       

Geometric Terms:  Play concentration, word search or use flashcards. 

Geometry Review:  an animated review of important concepts.  

Math in Daily Life. 

MathsNet - Volume by Counting:  Use this applet to manipulate and enumerate unit cubes, rows of unit cubes, or layers of unit cubes.

MathsNet - Three-dimensional shapes:  Interactive applet showing how shapes are made up from their nets.  

Origami Diagrams on the Web:  Easy to follow directions for using Geometric shapes to make easy, intermediate, and complex creations. 

Perimeter and Area of Polygons:  Lessons from Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies.  

Plot Plans and Silhouettes asks you to design a structure that would have the given silhouettes as seen from the front and the side.

Polygons..."Demonstrate an understanding of the use of the properties and relationships in geometry and use manipulatives to identify properties of a polygon.

Shape Surveyor:  You'll never know what you'll find if you dig Geometry.

Tangrams:  Solve 49 different tangrams.

  Tangram Construction:  Make your own puzzle pieces to play with at home. 

Taxicab Geometry:  In taxicab geometry the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line, but rather the number of blocks a taxi has to travel to find the treasure.

Three-Dimensional Figures...Reviews two- and three-dimensional shapes using paper models.   

Virtual Manipulatives:  online manipulatives to meet the NCTM Geometry standard.

Web of Lines...Describes lines, rays, segments, and points.

Zona Land:  More Mathematics than Science, but there's that too!

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