MAFS.K.G.2.4Archived Standard

In this game, learners use clues to identify mystery shapes. Use everyday objects (like from the pantry) as the shapes. It is important for learners to be able to describe a shape with correct math vocabulary and to be able to visualize a shape in their head.

Type: Educational Game

Students compare and contrast two shapes based on their attributes.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students compare a cube to a rectangular prism and discuss the similarities and differences.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students compare a triangle to a rectangle based on attributes of these figures.

Type: Formative Assessment

Students compare two hexagons and describe how they are alike and how they are different.

Type: Formative Assessment

In this lesson, students will work with 3-Dimensional shapes identifying attributes of the shapes and recreating them. Students will create, identify and describe 3-Dimensional shapes as part of the assessment process.

Type: Lesson Plan

This lesson is an introduction to 3-dimensional shapes. The lessons uses food to help students explore the attributes of those shapes. Then, of course, the students get to eat them!

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students will discover the names of different two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes and their attributes through activities such as playing "Hide and Seek" with shapes and playing "Hot and Cold" to find shapes in the classroom.

Type: Lesson Plan

Students work together to build and identify three-dimensional shapes and their attributes.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson students will compare two-dimensional shapes to other two- dimensional shapes (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle) and three-dimensional shapes to other three-dimensional shapes (cone, cylinder, sphere, cube) by differentiating them according to attributes. Students describe attributes of shapes by exploring real world objects.

Type: Lesson Plan

This is a hands-on lesson that introduces and allows students to identify and build three-dimensional figures including rectangular prisms, square pyramids, and cubes. The students will also gain an understanding of what a vertex is, and how many vertices a given shape has.

Type: Lesson Plan

Integrating mathematics and literacy allows students to develop an understanding of the place of mathematics in their world. Students are introduced to the idea of shapes through a read-aloud session with an appropriate book. They then use models to learn the names of shapes, work together and individually to locate shapes in their real-world environment, practice spelling out the names of shapes they locate, and reflect in writing on the process. This lesson provides opportunities to engage students using many different learning modalities.

Type: Lesson Plan

Learn to sort and identify two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in this carnival-themed interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Identify and name rectangles and squares based on their defining attributes, even if they have different sizes or positions. Join King Geo and his scout, Quad, as they search for rectangles and squares in this interactive tutorial. 

This is part of a series on the defining attributes of shapes. Click the links below.

• "The Search for Shapes: Tracking Triangles"
• The Search for Shapes: Recognizing Rectangles and Squares"

Type: Original Student Tutorial

Learn how to identify the similarities and differences in the number of sides of two-dimensional shapes in this interactive tutorial.

Type: Original Student Tutorial

In this activity, learners work together to make polygons with string. Learners explore making different kinds of triangles, quadrilaterals, and other polygons. Through teacher-led questioning and discussion, students can analyze and compare two dimensional shapes in different sizes and orientations, as well as similarities, differences, and attributes. (Please note: the understanding of concave & convex polygons are not part of kindergarten geometry standards.)

Type: Teaching Idea

To give students opportunities to recognize, describe, build, and explore shapes in many different contexts.

Type: Teaching Idea

This virtual manipulative allows you to create, color, enlarge, shrink, rotate, reflect, slice, and glue geometric shapes, such as: squares, triangles, rhombi, trapezoids and hexagons.

Type: Virtual Manipulative