Suggested Grades

K-2

Objective

Students will practice their knowledge of 2-Dimensional shape names and characteristics.

Materials

• geoboards
• elastics

Method

• With their own geoboards and elastics, students first play and see what 2-D shapes they can construct.
• After about five minutes of this, ask students to clear their board and wait for instructions on what shape to construct.
• Teacher calls out a shape name.
• Students construct the shape on the geoboard.
• Have students clear board and repeat.
• Once students have the hang of this, move on to describing shapes that they are to construct (ie. “this shape has three sides and three corners”).