These two images can be used to teach students different shapes. Using Kid Pix, the students can draw the shape that they seen within the objects.
The students can draw the rectangle.
The students can draw the circle.
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Content Exploration Tools Involving Patterns
While this is not a specific link, this is a good place for teachers to find videos to show to his.her class. The teacher can search for any videos about shapes and patterns, and if they find one, he/she can show it to the class. Fund videos are an exciting way for students to learn.
This multiple choice game helps students recognize patterns by asking them to match a pattern with the one given to them. This is to help give them background information on shapes and get them used to recognizing generic patterns before trying to find them in nature.
This game helps students describe patterns by changing the shapes to letters and putting the letters in the same order as the shapes.
This website has many different links to sites where students can learn about patterns. There is a song for students to listen to, guessing games about patterns, interactive games, and more. This game helps students learn what patterns are and learn how to recognize them.
This website has many different images of different quilt patters. The teacher can project these images onto the blackboard or wall and show the students exactly where the patterns and shapes are. This is a good way for the teacher to show what the students need to learn and explain to them what they need to look for.
This is another website the teacher can use to explain to the students where to look for patterns and shapes in nature. This website contains pictures the teacher can show the class that show obvious patterns. This could also be used by showing the images and asking the students to say what shapes and patterns they see.
Content Exploration Tools Involving Shapes
Polygon playground is a game where students can click and drag different shapes to build a picture out of them. This can help the students show how different shapes can build one thing. This would be a good way to help the students reinforce what they already know about shapes, and it will help them see that you can build things out of some shape. Then, they will know to look for shapes inside of things.
This shows a video made by a kindergarten classroom. The video shows what shapes the students found in nature, and it would be a good example to show the class so they know what their goal is.
This sheet can be printed out for the students so they can cut out the shapes in it and glue them in the right spot on the picture given to them. This will help the students match up the shapes while completing a picture.
This website can be used as a resource page since there are a lot of links on it to other shape games the students can play.
This website has a game for students to play where it shows a picture and asks the students to find all the objects in the picture that are in the form of a certain shape. This is great for having students practice finding shapes in nature.
Projector
The teacher can bring in pictures from nature on slides and project them onto the blackboard. Then, he/she can ask the students to come up and not only point out the shapes, but also use chalk to trace the outline of the shape around the object in the picture. For example, if the teacher projected a picture of a clock and asked a student to find the shape, that student would trace around the clock and realize that he/she is drawing a circle. Then, the student connects the fact that the clock is the same shape as the circle.
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