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This website allows students to use a digital Geoboard. It can be used for many different geometry concepts and activities. There are even multiple color rubber bands.

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Geoboard is a tool for mathematical exploration. Stretch bands around the pegs to form line segments and polygons, and make discoveries about perimeter, area, angles, congruence, fractions, and more.

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Shape Up!: Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons by David A. Adler

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Using simple objects, like cheese slices, tooth picks and pretzel sticks, students will be constructing different 2D shapes.

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A hands-on introduction to polygons that takes the fear out of math and puts the fun back in! introduces triangles, quadrangles, and other polygons to young readers, encouraging them to play along, and learn everything there is to know about shapes.

Draw three dots on a piece of paper. Or maybe-- draw three dots on a slice of cheese. What happens when you connect the dots?

Explaining basic geometric concepts and offering definitions for important vocabulary, this introduction to shapes, lines, and angles is to good to miss-- even if the jokes can be a little . . . cheesy.

Created by a respected children's nonfiction author and former math teacher, this is a perfect grounding in basic shapes-- and a lot of fun, too.
With bright, colorful illustrations and a simple, funny text, Shape Up!

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Shape Up!: Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons

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Shape Up!: Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons [Adler, David A., Tobin, Nancy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Shape Up!: Fun With Triangles and Other Polygons

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This is a online game where students have the ability to solve multiple tanagram puzzles. Tanagrams can help students understand composing shapes, as well as the total area of shapes (de Walle et al., 2018).

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There are countless different shapes that can be created using the seven Tangram tiles. What can you come up with?

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"Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he's completely transformed. Kids will enjoy this boldly colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts." (Scholastic)

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Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he's completely transformed. Kids will enjoy this boldly colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts.

Now available in Scholastic Bookshelf editions, the Brainy Day Books have been developed by nationally acclaimed math educator and best-selling author Marilyn Burns. Using entertaining fictional stories, these books dispel the myth that math is dry, inaccessible, and unimaginative. At the end of each book, there's a special section that further outlines math concepts and provides questions to further engage children.

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Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he's completely transformed. Kids will enjoy this boldly colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts.

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Attributes of Quadrilaterals Anchor Chart by @theamygroesbeck on Instagram

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Introducing the Relationships of Quadrilaterals

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Introducing the Relationships of Quadrilaterals

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Interactive Anchor Chart for Attributes of Quadrilaterals - 3rd Grade

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3D Figures Anchor Chart by @theamygroesbeck on Instagram

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Introduction to Attributes of 3D Figures

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Introduction to Attributes of 3D Figures

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Interactive Anchor Charts for 3D Figures - 3rd Grade

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Classifying Triangles by MissMoncher | Blooket

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Practice Classifying Triangles by Sides and Angles

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Practice Classifying Triangles by Sides and Angles

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Blooket is a game similar to Kahoot, except students move through the questions at their own pace. This specific Blooket has students identifying triangles based on their sides and angles.

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The purpose of this game is to have students practice identifying the nets that make up 3D shapes. The second level has students selecting every possible net for a target shape. This will help students mentally "unfold" a shape and come up with every possible net for that shape.

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Nets of 3D Shapes

3D Nets is wonderful game for young students to learn about 3D shapes and their nets. Net of a 3D shape is a two-dimensional shape that can make the given 3D shape. In this game, you have to recognize the shape a given net can make, and the nets that can make a given 3D shape. The game has superb animation to show how a 3D shape can be made by its net, and the other way round. This game will help students understand 3D shapes, their nets, and the interchange between them very clearly while having a lot of fun.

How to play 3D Nets

A wonderful game for young students to learn about 3D shapes and their nets.

What are the nets of 3D shapes?

A net of a 3D shape is a 2D image of what the shape would look like cut and laid out flat. Think of it like each 3D shape having a skin or a rind that you then carefully slice and peel in order to flatten it on a table. Some 3D shapes can have more than one possible net.

How do you match nets to 3D shapes?

Visualization. You have to carefully picture the folds in your mind, and then bend or fold the shape in order to move from a 2D- to a 3D-shape. To check your answer, you can draw the net on a piece of paper, and then carefully fold it up to see if your 3D shape matches what you've pictured in your head.

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3D Nets is wonderful game for young students to learn about 3D shapes and their nets. Net of a 3D shape is a two-dimensional shape that can make the given 3D shape.

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3 Dimensional Shapes by NUMBEROCK on Epic

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Real-World Connections to Shapes and Angles

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Real-World Connections to Shapes and Angles

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This song helps students to remember the names of 3D Shapes, but also to connect them to everyday items that they are used to seeing.

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Built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world's best publishers, Epic safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under. Get Started

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by Symmetry for Kids (Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Shapes) by TutWay on Youtube

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This video shows students what symmetry is, and animates each of the vocabulary words that students need to know about the topic. It could be used as a follow up to students exploring the topic of symmetry during an inquiry activity to ensure they understand all of the vocabulary.

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Symmetry For Kids (Symmetrical & Asymmetrical Shapes)

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In this game, students will be exploring various planets and identifying aliens that have lines of symmetry. They will be tasked with finding every line of symmetry on an alien, there could be multiple.

Students will need a free account in order to play the entire game.

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Legends of Learning | Math & Science Games For Teachers & Students

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This song will help students to remember the different polygon shape names - triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon and decagon.

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Alan kite surfs, skateboards, bikes, dives, and explores space as he learns about Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Pentagons, Hexagons, Heptagons, Octagons, Nonagons, and Decagons. These shapes surround Alan in his daily life, and he is so excited to give you a tour of real-world polygons!

Song Lyrics:

Tri is a prefix that means three;
triangles have three sides like a sail on the sea.
Quad is a prefix that means four;
quadrilaterals have four sides like a door.
Penta is a prefix that means five;
pentagons have five sides like a school zone walk sign.
Hexa - a prefix that means six;
hexagons have six sides like a bolt we twist.

Tri means three, and quad means four.
Penta means five, and hexa means six.

Hepta is a prefix that means seven;
heptagons have seven sides like Orion in the heavens.
Octo is a prefix that means eight;
octogons have eight sides like a stop sign's shape.
And nona is a prefix that means nine;
nonagons have nine sides like a "y" on a road sign.
Deca - a prefix that means ten;
decagons have ten sides like a starfish in the ocean.

Hepta means seven; octo means eight.
Nona means nine, and deca means ten.
Tri (Three!), Quad (Four!), Penta (Five!), Hexa (Six!),
Hetpa (Seven!), Octo (Eight!), Nona (Nine!), Deca (Ten!)

Tri means three; quad means four.
Penta means five, and hexa means six.
Hepta means seven; octo means eight.
Nona means nine, and deca means ten.

(What shape is this...?) (Review)

Two last things before we go:
A polygon has to have straight sides, you know;
and a polygon has to be a closed shape.
The vertices and sides can't have any breaks.
So is this a polygon? No.
But is this a polygon? Yeah!

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Polygons Anchor Chart and Worksheet | Shapes Song with Non Polygons

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This Polygons song comes with an anchor chart, worksheets, and definitions of the shapes as it teaches classifying types of polygons by their attributes.

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Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 5 - Geometry by @theamygroesbeck

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This resource on TPT gives you templates to make anchor charts. You can simply project them, and then trace it onto anchor chart paper. You are even able to print smaller sizes of the charts so that students can add notes into the interactive math notebooks.

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These templates will help you prepare content rich anchor charts that can be created with your students. Project the templates and trace directly onto chart paper so you can prepare portions of the chart in advance, such as headers and graphics. Then, fill in the teachable content with your students. Student versions with blank examples are also included so students can create matching charts.
UPDATED April 17, 2020! Now includes digital charts and JPGs for use in Google Slides™ and Seesaw™. A teacher guide is included and provides directions on how to access and assign in Google Slides™ and Seesaw™.
Check out my blog post about how I implement and create anchor charts with students HERE!

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Here's what you'll get:

Printable/projectable PDF chart templates

Digital charts for use in Google Slides™

JPEG charts for use in Seesaw ™

Step-by-step teacher guide

Math Volume Five - GEOMETRY includes the following traceable templates:

Geometry Vocabulary

Polygons

Polygons: Is It or Isn't It

2D Figures

Understanding Attributes of 2D Figures

2D Attributes (2 versions)

Congruent Shapes

Making New 2D Shapes (2 versions)

Understanding Attributes of Quadrilaterals

Classify Quadrilaterals (3 versions)

The Quad Squad - Special Quadrilateral sort based on attributes

Understanding Attributes of 3D Figures

3D Figures

Composing Solid Shapes

3D Shape Nets

3D Attributes (8 versions)

Prisms vs. Pyramids

Making New Solid Figures

PLEASE NOTE: The preexisting content is based on 2nd and 3rd grade standards and is provided as a suggestion. Since these planograms are designed to be traced, you can include your own wording, definitions, or worked examples to meet the needs of your students and grade level. The blank student versions can also be used as an alternate if you need to adjust the complexity of the content for younger learners.
Check out more anchor chart planograms!
Math Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 1 - PLACE VALUE Math Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 2 - ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION Math Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 3 - MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION Math Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 4 - FRACTIONS Math Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 6 - MEASUREMENT: TIME Math Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 7 - MEASUREMENT: AREA & PERIMETER ELA Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 1 - READING
Happy Teaching!

Amy

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Anchor Chart Planogram Vol. 5 - Geometry

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by Teaching with a Mountain View (Mary Montero)

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Upper Elementary Measurement & Geometry Activities 

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This is a blog post that lays out how this teacher taught her geometry and measurement unit! It goes through each concept, and provides multiple links to resources on TPT, in-depth posts on activities and images of anchor charts. The geometry and measurement concepts that are addressed in this post are perimeter, area, lines, angles, classifying polygons and symmetry.

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Here in Colorado, we have two more months of school before summer break, and as of last week, we have taught ALL of our math standards! Yay! Now it's on to some collaborative math projects, STEM activities, and enrichment while we review all of the concepts we worked on this year. Before we begin those super fun activities, though, we had to finish up our geometry and measurement unit, and I'm here to share some of the geometry activities we did!

Geometry Note Keeper

For ALL of our geometry concepts, we compiled our notes into a big Geometry Waterfall booklet. We do A LOT of interactive note-booking throughout the year, so I wanted to change it up a bit for this unit, and they really enjoyed it! Here is a peek inside our waterfall booklets, which we used before all of our geometry activities.

Area and Perimeter

We started with area and perimeter. The notes they took were really basic since they remembered many of these skills from third grade. Here is another blog post I wrote about perimeter and area with a ton of other ideas and activities that we did in the past and did again this go around!

These differentiated area and perimeter flipbook lessons are also great for teaching, skill reinforcement, and engaging practice

Line Study

Then, we worked on line study. This is one of my favorite parts because of the line study activity we do every year. Kids love it SO much! Here is a look at the very basic page in our booklet...

Now the fun begins! My kids make their own hands-on line study packets for practicing. You can read more about that in these Geometry Line Study and Geometry Line Study Take 2 posts.

Angles

Next it was on to angels.

This angles anchor chart looks like SO MUCH when it is all put together. However, we did this over the course of two or three days and walked through each step. It would have been far too overwhelming to do all at once, so I don't recommend it. 🙂 I have blogged about angles and the activities we do in these Geometry Focus: Angles and Angles, Angles, Angles blog posts. This year, I added to this anchor chart with each new lesson, and the kids loved it!

You can also take your review of identifying, measuring, drawing, and adding angles to the next level with this flipbook! It acts as a mini interactive notebook that covers a variety of strategies relating to angles. The left hand side of each page helps to teach the focus skill, acting as a mini anchor chart that students interact with and complete. On the right hand side, students engage in identifying types of angles, measuring angles, calculating additive angles, drawing angles, and more!

Polygons

Next, it was on to classifying polygons. We really didn't spend too much time on this after we made our waterfall booklets. We played a few games during math workshop, and they caught on very quickly!

Symmetry

Finally, we worked for a day or two on symmetry. Again, they were familiar with the concept, so we took it a bit further with our discussion.

They created shapes using pattern blocks and mirrors to check for symmetry. If you've never taught symmetry this way, I HIGHLY recommend it!

Measurement

When we were done with these concepts (which took about three weeks in total, between whole group instruction and math workshop rotations), it was on to measurement! On the first day of instruction, we reviewed the difference between Customary and Metric measurement, which was actually a big struggle for a lot of my kids. We also reviewed relative size using an anchor chart I found on Pinterest! If you are the original creator of this chart, please let me know!

The next day, we briefly introduced converting measures, which again, was fairly foreign to most of them. It was SO nice that day (and we were in the middle of state testing), so we took it outside. I created a quick little sheet that gave them specific things to measure on our playground. Then, they had to convert into feet, inches, yards, etc. as well as centimeters and meters. It was just the break we needed!

You can download a copy of the SUPER BASIC recording sheet HERE.

The next day, we combined all of our geometry and measurement skills with these real world task cards. My students loved them so much that they started taking and drawing their own pictures and writing questions! I love to see students take action like that.

One more connection we made to the real world was with our Geometry Circle Map. Students found examples in the real world and we put them into a circle map. I keep forgetting to take a picture of ours, but here's one from a few years ago...

Geometry Activities Review Game

Once we were done with measurement, it was time to review ALL of the learning we had done for the past month. This was undeniably the highlight of the unit! I combined all of the concepts we had worked on and made a quiz style review game using task cards. Set up was easy because I already had the task cards made for each topic from math workshop. You can read more about how we play the game with fractions HERE (there is also a link to download the point cards and a recording sheet). This time, though, I made it a little bit simpler and just had teams get FULL points if they were the first done and got it correct, and then the rest of the kids got half points if they got it correct. That way there is still incentive to finish it and do well!

When a card was chosen, I would project it up on the document camera while groups read and solved it together.

Geometry Activities Task Card Bundle

When we were done with the game, my kids BEGGED me to put new cards in it and play again! You can purchase the task cards I used for the review game (and throughout my ENTIRE unit) in a Bundle HERE or separately if you only need a few sets! 🙂

Happy teaching.

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Measurement and Geometry Activities - Teaching with a Mountain View

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Here in Colorado, we have two more months of school before summer break, and as of last week, we have taught ALL of our math standards! Yay! Now it's on to some collaborative math projects , STEM activities, and enrichment while we review all of the concepts we worked on this year.

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What are Lines and Angles? by Miacademy Learning Channel

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In this video, students will learn about parallel and perpendicular lines as well as types of angles (right, acute and obtuse).

This YouTube channel has many more educational videos, for many different geometry concepts for grades K-8.

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This site has geometry games for students to play as they practice various concepts. A few of the concepts shown in these games are 2D shapes, 3D shapes, composing/decomposing shapes, angles, and transformations.

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Practice geometry with our popular math games. Learn about shapes, area, perimeter and more.

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This engaging tool teaches younger kids about shapes and their attributes while building spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills. It includes fun tangram puzzles.

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Dragon Shapes - Lumio Geometry Challenge (Full Version) App Review

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Engaging geometry puzzles help boost problem-solving skills. Read Common Sense Media's Dragon Shapes - Lumio Geometry Challenge (Full Version) review, age rating, and parents guide.

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Unleash your creativity with the world's best virtual manipulatives!

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Explore Shapes and Angles!: With 25 Great Projects (Explore Your World) by Jeanette Moore 

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Real-World Connections to Shapes and Angles

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This is a children's book that allows students to explore geometry concepts (shapes and angles) through real-world projects. This gives students a visual of how geometry is used in our everyday lives. Additionally, it integrates social studies by discussing the histories of geometric concepts.

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This book is in the shape of a square. Or is it a rectangle? The pages are 2-dimensional. Or are the pages 3-dimensional? Geometry is all around us!

In Explore Shapes and Angles! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 to 10 will have fun identifying the shapes and angles in their world. They'll also learn how these shapes and angles are used in different situations and in different jobs, such as construction, engineering, and art.

A kid's world is made of shapes and angles-by encouraging readers to become savvy at identifying and using the different shapes, this book serves as the perfect introduction to geometry and a way to build a strong foundation in math skills that will serve them well as they are exposed to increasingly more complicated concepts. Hands-on, design-minded projects, such as designing a tree house, offer opportunities to discover how engineers and designers use shapes and angles to create strong structures. Readers are encouraged to use blocks, bodies, and yoga to mimic geometric shapes and find combinations so strong they'll even hold up heavy weights.

Links to online resources, fun facts, cartoon illustrations, and compelling content drive this introduction to basic geometry that will help children begin to establish a spatial relationship with real-world math and make it fun!

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Explore Shapes and Angles!: With 25 Great Projects (Explore Your World)

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This book is in the shape of a square. Or is it a rectangle? The pages are 2-dimensional. Or are the pages 3-dimensional? Geometry is all around us! In Explore Shapes and Angles! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 to 10 will have fun identifying the shapes and angles in their world.

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Lines, Angles, and Segments Oh My: Geometry Vocab. Anchor Chart and Flash Cards by Mrs Ray's Realm

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Geometry Vocabulary Anchor Charts for 4th grade

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I created this product to help my kids learn the basic vocabulary for 4th Grade geometry. This product includes 2 anchor charts with the term, definition, illustration, and example of the following words: point, line, line segment, plane, ray, parallel, perpendicular, and angle. It also includes matching flash cards for all 16 words. My students even came up with the examples for each of the words. They were fighting over which examples to use.

If you found this product useful, please leave me feedback!

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Lines, Angles, and Segments Oh My: Geometry Vocab. Anchor Chart and Flash Cards

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I created this product to help my kids learn the basic vocabulary for 4th Grade geometry. This product includes 2 anchor charts with the term, definition, illustration, and example of the following words: point, line, line segment, plane, ray, parallel, perpendicular, and angle. It also includes m...

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This is a 4th grade lesson plan where students will be able to identify symmetrical figures, draw lines of symmetry, and explain why or why not a figure has symmetry.

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Simply Symmetry! | Lesson Plan | Education.com

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Symmetry is everywhere, but it's often hard to notice. This lesson explores a few ways to identify it. By folding and making mirror images for different shapes, students will discover a new world of symmetrical figures.

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This site includes several geometry digital manipulatives, including a Tangram puzzle, pattern blocks, and a geoboard.

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Geometry Manipulatives » Toy Theater | Learn • Create • Play

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Educational Games • Featuring math, art, spelling, puzzles, and more. Master skills and explore creativity. | Elementary Grades