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Know Your Shapes!
Know Your Shapes!
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Know Your Shapes!
First Grade
Geometry
In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!
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Know Your Shapes!
Know Your Shapes!
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Know Your Shapes!
In this lesson, your students will become familiar with shapes by identifying them in real life. Your students will love identifying how many sides shapes have by drawing and counting them!
First Grade
Geometry
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Shape Sort
Shape Sort
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Shape Sort
First Grade
Geometry
Sorting takes on a new challenge for students in this activity which engages their critical thinking skills. As students determine defining attributes, they’ll figure out what makes a shape a shape!
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Shape Sort
Shape Sort
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Shape Sort
Sorting takes on a new challenge for students in this activity which engages their critical thinking skills. As students determine defining attributes, they’ll figure out what makes a shape a shape!
First Grade
Geometry
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Trapezoids Are Special
Trapezoids Are Special
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Trapezoids Are Special
First Grade
Geometry
Students will explore geometric shapes by creating a painting of a trapezoid.
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Trapezoids Are Special
Trapezoids Are Special
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Trapezoids Are Special
Students will explore geometric shapes by creating a painting of a trapezoid.
First Grade
Geometry
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Shapes Inside Shapes
Shapes Inside Shapes
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Shapes Inside Shapes
Kindergarten
Geometry
Look all around! We can find 2D shapes inside 3D shapes wherever we go! In this lesson, students will sort shapes and recognize the 2D components of common 3D shapes.
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Shapes Inside Shapes
Shapes Inside Shapes
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Shapes Inside Shapes
Look all around! We can find 2D shapes inside 3D shapes wherever we go! In this lesson, students will sort shapes and recognize the 2D components of common 3D shapes.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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Hopping Around: Circles
Hopping Around: Circles
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Hopping Around: Circles
Pre-K
Geometry
Hop to the circles! This lesson helps your students experience circles in a fun and informal way using crafts, songs, and games. Your students will also develop perceptual, fine, and gross motor skills at the same time.
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Hopping Around: Circles
Hopping Around: Circles
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Hopping Around: Circles
Hop to the circles! This lesson helps your students experience circles in a fun and informal way using crafts, songs, and games. Your students will also develop perceptual, fine, and gross motor skills at the same time.
Pre-K
Geometry
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Graph My Design
Graph My Design
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Graph My Design
First Grade
Geometry
Geometry meets data in this fun lesson! Students will build a design using pattern blocks and then graph the number of each shape used. This scaffolded EL lesson can be used alone or alongside Graphing Colored Counters.
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Graph My Design
Graph My Design
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Graph My Design
Geometry meets data in this fun lesson! Students will build a design using pattern blocks and then graph the number of each shape used. This scaffolded EL lesson can be used alone or alongside Graphing Colored Counters.
First Grade
Geometry
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A Place for a Shape
A Place for a Shape
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A Place for a Shape
Pre-K
Geometry
Detective time! In this lesson, your students will become shape detectives and go on a shape hunt to find the missing shapes on a grid.
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A Place for a Shape
A Place for a Shape
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A Place for a Shape
Detective time! In this lesson, your students will become shape detectives and go on a shape hunt to find the missing shapes on a grid.
Pre-K
Geometry
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Punched-Out Shapes
Punched-Out Shapes
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Punched-Out Shapes
Pre-K
Geometry
Your students will get right to the point with this small group activity! Your students will use large push pins to punch out shapes, all while improving fine motor skills and creating class books to read when the activity is finished.
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Punched-Out Shapes
Punched-Out Shapes
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Punched-Out Shapes
Your students will get right to the point with this small group activity! Your students will use large push pins to punch out shapes, all while improving fine motor skills and creating class books to read when the activity is finished.
Pre-K
Geometry
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Composing Shapes
Composing Shapes
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Composing Shapes
First Grade
Geometry
Students will love composing and decomposing two-dimensional shapes using tangram puzzle pieces. Use this plan alone or to frontload key vocabulary and concepts taught in the lesson plan Know Your Shapes.
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Composing Shapes
Composing Shapes
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Composing Shapes
Students will love composing and decomposing two-dimensional shapes using tangram puzzle pieces. Use this plan alone or to frontload key vocabulary and concepts taught in the lesson plan Know Your Shapes.
First Grade
Geometry
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Shapes and Shadows
Shapes and Shadows
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Shapes and Shadows
Pre-K
Geometry
Students will get hands-on experience manipulating shapes in this preschool-friendly activity. With the help of shape blocks and worksheets, little learners will get the hang of squares, triangles and rectangles in no time.
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Shapes and Shadows
Shapes and Shadows
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Shapes and Shadows
Students will get hands-on experience manipulating shapes in this preschool-friendly activity. With the help of shape blocks and worksheets, little learners will get the hang of squares, triangles and rectangles in no time.
Pre-K
Geometry
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Shape Jumble: Matching
Shape Jumble: Matching
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Shape Jumble: Matching
Kindergarten
Geometry
This is a fun lesson for your students to learn shapes while playing an engaging matching game. Your students will also get to practice their fine motor skills in this lesson.
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Shape Jumble: Matching
Shape Jumble: Matching
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Shape Jumble: Matching
This is a fun lesson for your students to learn shapes while playing an engaging matching game. Your students will also get to practice their fine motor skills in this lesson.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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Finding All of the Flat Shapes
Finding All of the Flat Shapes
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Finding All of the Flat Shapes
Kindergarten
Geometry
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.
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Finding All of the Flat Shapes
Finding All of the Flat Shapes
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Finding All of the Flat Shapes
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.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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All About Tangram Puzzles
All About Tangram Puzzles
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All About Tangram Puzzles
Kindergarten
Geometry
Students will love composing shapes using tangrams in this hands-on lesson! Use this plan alone or as a support lesson plan for the Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle lesson plan.
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All About Tangram Puzzles
All About Tangram Puzzles
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All About Tangram Puzzles
Students will love composing shapes using tangrams in this hands-on lesson! Use this plan alone or as a support lesson plan for the Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle lesson plan.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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Quizzical Shapes
Quizzical Shapes
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Quizzical Shapes
Kindergarten
Geometry
Shapes, shapes everywhere! In this lesson, your students will identify shapes and differentiate between the geometrical figures. They will also learn about sides and angles in every shape.
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Quizzical Shapes
Quizzical Shapes
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Quizzical Shapes
Shapes, shapes everywhere! In this lesson, your students will identify shapes and differentiate between the geometrical figures. They will also learn about sides and angles in every shape.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle
Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle
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Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle
Kindergarten
Geometry
How do you build spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills while doing something that is fun? With tangrams! In honor of Chinese New Year, this lesson introduces your students to the Chinese puzzle of tangrams.
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Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle
Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle
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Tangrams: An Ancient Chinese Puzzle
How do you build spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills while doing something that is fun? With tangrams! In honor of Chinese New Year, this lesson introduces your students to the Chinese puzzle of tangrams.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!
Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!
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Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!
Second Grade
Geometry
Geometry is a core of mathematics in the early years. Help students recognize and draw shapes given specific attributes such as the number of corners and sides. This lesson can be a stand-alone activity of paired with 2-D Shapes!
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Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!
Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!
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Sides, Corners, and More, Oh My!
Geometry is a core of mathematics in the early years. Help students recognize and draw shapes given specific attributes such as the number of corners and sides. This lesson can be a stand-alone activity of paired with 2-D Shapes!
Second Grade
Geometry
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Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
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Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
Pre-K
Geometry
Use this great lesson to get your students interested in learning about basic shapes! This lesson integrates a sensory activity with learning and lets students get a little messy.
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Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
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Fingerpaint and Fun with Shapes
Use this great lesson to get your students interested in learning about basic shapes! This lesson integrates a sensory activity with learning and lets students get a little messy.
Pre-K
Geometry
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Dividing Clay Shapes
Dividing Clay Shapes
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Dividing Clay Shapes
First Grade
Fractions
Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.
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Dividing Clay Shapes
Dividing Clay Shapes
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Dividing Clay Shapes
Students will use their hands to mold clay into shapes, then divide those shapes into equal and unequal quarters.
First Grade
Fractions
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Geometry Puzzles
Geometry Puzzles
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Geometry Puzzles
First Grade
Geometry
Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.
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Geometry Puzzles
Geometry Puzzles
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Geometry Puzzles
Your students will solve and create shape riddles while practicing their knowledge of shape attributes.
First Grade
Geometry
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String Shapes!
String Shapes!
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String Shapes!
Kindergarten
Geometry
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.
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String Shapes!
String Shapes!
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String Shapes!
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.
Kindergarten
Geometry
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About Two-dimensional Shapes Lesson Plans

On Education.com, two-dimensional shapes lesson plans review the study of flat shapes such as circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, and polygons, teaching students to identify, name, and describe these shapes using hands-on and visual activities. These planner-focused resources include worksheets, printable activities, interactive games, and classroom projects designed to support early geometry understanding.

Explore a variety of tiered learning materials on Education.com, from beginner shape recognition to activities encouraging shape classification by sides, angles, and symmetry. Resources help students build visual-spatial reasoning skills and deepen their math concepts while making learning engaging and practical through real-world examples.

This collection provides resources that enable educators and parents to create structured lesson plans and engaging practice sessions. Students can practice shape sorting, drawing, constructing figures with manipulatives, and analyzing geometric properties, equipping them with foundational math skills and confidence for more advanced geometry.