Measurement+and+Geometry+Resources

Teach Children Shapes: “Teach Children Shapes” is a website that teachers can use to help reinforce information that students have learnt in class about shapes. This website provides various worksheets which the teacher is able to print off and hand out to all of the students in the classroom. It is extremely easy to navigate this website as all titles and images are clearly labelled. Produced by "The Learning Federation" there are various activities and basic worksheets which can be printed and used depending on the aim of the lesson in the classroom. pendi
 * Resources **
 * Website: **

Maths Online:
Using online materials such as websites are a great way of helping educate children about various shapes. The following website could be used in a classroom as a lesson to teach the children the basic two-dimensional shapes. "Maths Online" allows students to follow a lesson which has been provided online. Once the child completes the lesson they are then allowed to answer questions on the topic.

Whilst this website does now have a slight charge, students are able to use a guest account, but unfortunately they are only able to complete the first activity. It would be a great resource if you were to get the whole school involved. If the school was to make an account, teachers would be able to track the children's improvement and understand the areas which they were experiencing difficulties with. nderould.wh 2D Shapes: The final website is really helpful for teaching children the different shapes is called "2D Shapes". This website is based around the curriculum, in the sense that they teach five to seven year olds the essentials to a basic shape. Again, like the above websites, "2D shapes" has numerous activities and worksheet examples teachers are able to provide to their classroom which could help children understand the different shapes and in turn, enabling them to remember the shapes names and what they look like. ard

Polygon Playground: Although this resource on its own is not a game or an activity it has the potential to assist students in the classroom. It has all the basic shapes, and on top of this it can also teach children about tessellation – depending on what sort of activities the teacher wants to create.
 * Interactive Whiteboard Resources: **

 This resource enables teachers to be able to drag around the screen different shapes in different colours and sizes. With this resource on its own children can create patterns, tessellations and pictures using shapes that are provided in different sizes. Children just have to choose the shape and drag it to wherever they would like it to be. ons. Primary Resources: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This resource allows children to see a selection of different shapes and sort them into two different categories. These selection cateogries are determined by two different shape characteristics, for example: more than four sides or less than four sides. Children are able to interact with the board by simply walking up and dragging the particular shapes to either side, making it an excellent collaborative classroom activity.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This activity allows children to distinguish between shapes acknowledging their different features. Some of the questions may get a little difficult for some students, however if the teacher is prepared (practiced using the resource prior to the lesson) they are able to change the activity to suit the capability of each individual student.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">National Library Of Virtual Manipulatives: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Children love interacting with the board, and with the following interactive resource, children are able to enjoy learning various things about shapes. Some of the links provided on the website are simply worksheets or basic PowerPoint's on shapes, however there are some games and activities which children can use to understand more about basic two-dimensional shapes. With over 100 resources it can easily be said that this website is an excellent resource teachers can use in the classroom. <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">ard

**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">Movies/Podcasts: **
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Shapes: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"Shapes" is an amazing YouTube video created by Pancake Manor. In this video two puppets show children that shapes are everywhere, which is shown through examples of circles, squares and triangles. It is a very catchy song that the teacher could play in the classroom, and there is no doubt that the year two children would get up and dance along, whilst also learning what the three most basic shapes look like. <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">lik <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The Shapes Song: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">This video is also another video that you could show the children, however it is more educational. This video tells the students a number of shapes and also shows some examples of where the shapes are in the world. It would be a great resource to teach the children a song, because even if they did not see the video but knew the lyrics, they would be able to remember the names of some shapes and how many sides they have. <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">ard

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">Documents:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Shapes are Everywhere: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">The article “Shapes are Everywhere” written by Lola May discusses the benefits of children looking at the world for shapes. The text addresses the benefit of acknowledging items as the shapes that make up the object rather than the object itself. Generally when we are looking at objects we look at what they are and what their purpose is. We as adults/teachers don't tend to think about the shapes that make up objects, therefore we often do not think to encourage our students to think like this. For children to have a better understanding of geometric shapes it is good for them to be able to see them in their surrounding environments, an important point which "Shapes are Everywhere" addresses in great detail. <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">ard

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Edmodo: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"Edmodo" is a great social networking resource which would be ideal for teachers to communicate with the children's and the parents of their classroom. With relevance to the topic 'shapes', the teacher is able to post assignment information for the students including copies of worksheets etc. This source has the potential to act as a beneficial tool to ensure that students remain on task and are able to use the introduced technologies effectively. <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">ble <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Teacher Recess: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">"Teacher Recess" is quite similar to the network identified above; this website only allows users to communicate with other teachers, despite this restriction teachers are able to find out what topics fellow teachers are focusing on. This would be very helpful when teaching shapes, as it allows for communication between mathematics teachers to discussing teaching techniques and share resources. <span style="color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">working:
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.6667px;">Social Networking: **