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Kindergarten
- "Create, Explore, and
Describe Shapes"
- Activities by GLCE: Geometry New
A website
is designed to provide math links for students,
guidance for parents, and standards based resources
for teachers. You can find resources by the GLCE.
Mr. Maffesoli compiled all of the links contained
in this site. The linked sites themselves were
created by other individuals and organizations.
- BBC
School's MegaShapes
Outstanding
Excellent geometry site for ages 4 to 11.
Follow the Investigate link for student activities
that involve multiple choice questions about familiar
regular shapes and irregular shapes. While
students complete these activites, they have access
to a shape book that provides drawings and information
about each shape. Click on the bouncing
triangle for interactive java activities that
allow students to use their knowledge about shapes,
symmetry, and transformations. Follow the
teacher link for information about the skills
that are covered at this website, along with
printable
activities and resources.
- Beacon
Learning Center
Outstanding:
This can be a student interactive lesson for
reinforcement, or it can be used as
a teaching tool for the entire class. Geo Cleo
has to try to create a "shape caper".
But, there is a lesson of descriptive qualities
that must be known/learned first of each of these
3-dimensional objects (cylinders, cubes, rectangular
prisms, and pyramids). What a wonderful reteaching
activity!
- Geometry
and Measurement
This site is all about geometry and measurement.
All of the sites listed on this page are interactive
for K-5. They include: Tessellate, Polygon Playground,
Shape Cave, and Shape Explorer. This is an outstanding
site for a variety of interactive mathematics
activites.
- Gisele's Big Back Yard Lower elementary
students can locate items in everyday life and
associate them with the geometric name of that
shape. An example would be finding dice as a
cube in everyday life. This is a simplistic site
and makes finding the items nearly impossible.
This site would work exceptionally well for low
self esteem students who need a little extra
practice.
- Making
Triangles and Electronic Geoboard
This is a teacher directed site that would be
good for K on up. With teacher direction the
child
can use an electronic geoboard to make, change,
transform and explore shapes.
- MathsNet
Interactive Shape Version 1.0
- Outstanding!
This site includes interactive activities
for
students that cover ALL of the Shape and Shape
Relationship Benchmarks.
- RATS!
Shapes
This is an interactive site for students K-3rd
grade. Students are given a specific shape to
watch for as a bird flying over drops shapes.
The object is for the student to only catch
the
shape they were originally given.
- Sesame
Street Workshop
Lower elementary students must identify and choose
objects that follow a certain pattern and therefore
belong into the same group. Identifying, sorting
and classifying objects by attributes help students
figure out which objects belong and which do
not belong in a particular group.
- Sort
Triangles
This interactive activity allows students to
sort commonly recognized shapes into categories
of
triangles and other shapes.
- Sort
the Shapes (Shapes)
This interactive activity allows students to
sort commonly recognized shapes into categories
of
all right angles, some right angles, and no right
angles.
- Sort
the Shapes (More Shapes)
This interactive activity allows students to
sort commonly recognized shapes by attributes
such
as red, not red, rectangles, and not rectangles.
- Virtual
Manipulatives Geometry
This site contains activities for students
to explore various geometric concepts using
virtual
manipulatives. Explanations for use and links
to math standards are provided.
- "Explore Geometric
Patterns"
- About
Symmetry and Pattern (Field Patterns)
This site is appropriate for upper elementary
grades. Examples of shapes and letters are
shown and how they create patterns and how rotating
the letters create a change in the pattern.
- BBC
School's MegaShapes
Outstanding
Excellent geometry site for ages 4 to 11.
Follow the Investigate link for student activities
that involve multiple choice questions about familiar
regular shapes and irregular shapes. While
students complete these activites, they have access
to a shape book that provides drawings and information
about each shape. Click on the bouncing
triangle for interactive java activities that
allow students to use their knowledge about shapes,
symmetry, and transformations. Follow the
teacher link for information about the skills
that are covered at this website, along with printable
activities and resources.
- Beacon Learning Center
- This site is an
elementary interactive narrative discussing patterns
and how they are made. Students can be pattern
dectctives with Adam, Shelby, and Shelby's grandfather.
The students need to look for patterns throughout
a picture, as well as, finishing a pattern with
given choices.
- Funschool
Preschoolers and Kindergarteners
can use this game to challenge their abilities
to complete patterns. This game has 5 different
levels, so each student can progressively increase
or decrease the intensity as needed. This is
an excellent reinforcement activity.
- Geometry
and Measurement
This site is all about geometry and measurement.
All of the sites listed on this page are interactive
for K-5. They include: Tessellate, Polygon Playground,
Shape Cave, and Shape Explorer. This is an outstanding
site for a variety of interactive mathematics
activites.
- Kindergarten Geometry Shapes New
The idea behind
the site was to provide free online educational
games for young kids. Not only to teach colors,
shapes and animal names, but also to teach young
users the basics of how to use a computer (such
as using a mouse).
- Kindergarten
Games New
- The idea behind the site was to provide
free online educational games for young kids.
Not
only to teach colors, shapes and animal names,
but also to teach young users the basics of how
to use a computer (such as using a mouse).
- MathsNet
Interactive Shape Version 1.0
Outstanding!
This site includes interactive activities for
students that cover ALL of the Shape and Shape
Relationship Benchmarks.
- Max's
Math Adventures - Now - Next Patterns
Outstanding
- The Summer Mystery Garden is a math
and language arts game involving now - next
patterns
for students in grades K-2. Hosts Max and Ruthie
challenge young students to solve math problems
by using clues embedded in a fun rhyming poem.
Students receive immediate feedback from Max
and
are encouraged to self-assess by comparing their
answers to Max and Ruthie's. The Extension activities
and Teacher Guide are very beneficial.
- Patterns
and Picture Books
This site allows teachers to connect children's
literature with the concept of patterns and
their
relationships.
- Patterns,
Algebra, and Functions
This is an interactive site that has activities
for sequencing for K-5.
- Patterns
Here, There, and Everywhere
This is a unit which follows a ten day lesson
plan. It involves the student in collecting
and
organizing real-world items into patterns. The
student should be able to design a plan to solve
problems using manipulatives, organizing and
interpreting data, and using patterns. The unit
involves station
work, ideas for assessment techniques, and integration
of Patterns Across the Curriculum. The student
activities are not computer interactive, but
are classroom activities.
- Proteacher
- Patterns and Relationships
This site provides teachers with many resources
and lesson plans pertaining to Patterns and
Relationships.
Activities range for grade levels K-6. The activities
provide many opportunities for students to represent
and record patterns and relationships in a variety
of ways. This site contains teacher lesson plans.
- The
Mysterious Tangram
This is a very student friendly and fun site.
Students build shapes by turning, flipping,
and
combining others to fill patterns. The site gives
clues and encourages children by using positive
sayings. Good for children 1st grade through
6th.
- Virtual
Manipulatives Geometry
This site contains activities for students to
explore various geometric concepts using virtual
manipulatives. Explanations for use and links
to math standards are provided.
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