Help your students get comfortable with 2D shapes using this fun arts-inspired lesson plan!

2D shapes are all around us! In this lesson students will explore the properties of four different shapes—triangles, circles, rectangles, and squares! They will learn that they can find these shapes anywhere in the world around us.

Give your students a head start on 3D shapes with this lesson that has them use their observational skills to identify what differentiates the shapes.

The best way to learn about shapes? Make them! This lesson gets students using clay to make and learn about 3-D shapes.

This hands-on geometry lesson is a great introduction to 2D shapes for your ELs. This can be used as a stand alone or support lesson for the String Shapes lesson plan.

Give your students some early practice with shapes using this simple lesson. Young learners will have a great time creating shapes using pieces of string.