1st and 2nd Grade Common Core Geometry Resources : Page 3

Use these this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Composing Shapes.

Can your first graders tell the difference between a square and a cube? How about a triangle and a cone? Use this geometry assessment to gauge your students’ abilities to use attributes to sort 2-D and 3-D shapes.

Spheres are all around us—from home to school and in between! Have your students search for real-life spheres around them with this fun geometry activity that will deepen their understanding of this ubiquitous shape.

Rectangular prisms make for great rooms! Help your students develop an understanding of this 3-D shape while turning them into rooms in this fun geometry lesson. How would you decorate your rectangular prism room?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: 3-D Scavenger Hunt!

Pentagons make for perfect houses! Help students to identify and develop an understanding of this 2-D shape with this fun activity. Students will sort out the pentagons from other shapes and then turn them into houses.

Tackle two geometry concepts with this cut and paste activity. Students identify which shapes are divided equally into four quarters.

Build student understanding of the defining attributes of triangles with this sorting activity. Students will cut out different shape cards and sort them into examples and non-examples of triangles.

A cylinder is a 3-D shape that appears in many everyday things. Help your child learn about cylinders by identifying the shape in her surroundings.

Use this visual pizza themed worksheet to help your second graders grasp the concept of fractions.

Children will take note of the everyday shapes that surround them in this fun geometry activity.

Boost geometry knowledge and enhance creativity with this fun math worksheet.

Hexagons are hiding in plain sight throughout this worksheet—all you need to do is count the sides of each shape to identify them! This is a great geometry activity to help your students practice identifying and differentiating between 2-D shapes.

Get ready to slice up that pizza! This worksheet has multiple pizzas divided into fractions of fourths. Your students will choose the fraction term that matches the illustration to complete each sentence correctly.

If a shape can be folded in half so that the two halves match exactly, it’s symmetrical. Use this fun activity to help your students develop their understanding of symmetry by creating their own silly symmetrical animals!

Spheres are all around us—basketballs, globes, even the planet Earth! Help your students develop an understanding of this 3-D shape by identifying spheres in pictures and in real life.

Help your young mathematicians develop an understanding of spheres with this geometry resource. Students will seek to identify and count the three-dimensional shape using pictures of real-life objects.

Use these cards as a visual reference for students who will divide and draw toppings on a personal pizza. Use in conjunction with the Share a Pizza worksheet.

This printable worksheet includes six different shapes: Rectangle, circle, hexagon, rectangular prism, sphere, and triangle. Can they match the shape to its name?

Pentagons are easy to spot—if you know what to look for! Help your students develop an understanding of this five-sided polygon and practice 2-D shape identification with this great geometry resource!

Hexagons make for funny faces! Help your students develop an understanding of this 2-D shape by differentiating them from other shapes and then turning them into silly hexagonal faces.

Rectangular prisms can turn into lots of different things! Help your students develop an understanding of this 3-D shape while creating pictures of different objects. Get ready to let your imagination soar with this creative geometry lesson!

Students will identify and count the cones using pictures of real-life objects.

Build your students' confidence in geometry by practicing shape identification, division, and measurement. Using this printable worksheet, children will draw lines on shapes to divide them into equal quarters.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Equal Shares.

Are your students still tripped up by those tricky trapezoids? This geometry worksheet can help! Give your second graders a chance to have fun while they practice trapezoid identification with this cut-and-paste activity.

Use this language routine to elicit meaningful conversation among your 2nd grade students! Will students be able to ask their partners for the information they need to name that shape?