Shapes
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- Buzzing With Shapes
2-player activity Each player has a bee hive. Click the spinner to see what
number you get. Find a shape with that many sides on your bee hive. Drag and
drop the number to the shape. Try to complete a row as in tic-tac-toe.
- Shapes by Kids Online
Click the pencil to advance. Read the question and move your mouse over objects that match
the shape.
- Great
Shapes Scavenger Hunt from PBS
- Learn
Colors and Shapes and Little People Shapes and Colors
Click the Little People Shapes and Colors Game button. Listen for directions. It
will tell you to color the oval pink for example. Click the correct color and then the
correct shape.
Click here for additional games.
- Sammy's Shapes
Guess what shape Sammy the Snake is making.
- The
Shape Game
Listen and click a shape to answer.
- Shape
Racer
Located in the Preschool list of games. Drag &
drop each picture to the matching shape.
- Rainforest
Math
Levels K-6.
- Etch-A-Sketch
Find the Shapes
- I Spy Shapes from the Story Place
Online story and online activities. Listen and read along to know what shapes to find.
Click each shape. Watch the scoreboard to know how many to find.
- Virtual Geoboard
- Shapesville by TVO Kids
Search for the keyword "shapes" if the activity doesn't load immediately. Listen
and watch to know what shape to find in the picture. Try the 3D shapes too.
- Rats!
Located under the Pre-K tab. Rusty the Rat will walk across the screen to show you what
kind of shape to catch. Use the arrow keys to move Rusty to the right spot to catch the
correct shape. Read the instructions first to know what other things you might see.
- Bucky Beaver's Dam Jammer by
iKnow That
Excellent flip & rotate activity. Click the Maybe Later button to bypass registration
and go on to the activity.
- Geometry Workbench by
iKnow That
Click the Maybe Later button to go on to the activity. Click Choose a Challenge Topic at
the top of the workspace, then Give Me a Challenge. Tip: Click the Help button to see what
each tool does. Try the Flip tool to see lines of symmetry.
- Venn Diagram
Shape Sorter
Click the buttons along the top to set the rule. Drag & drop the shapes into place on
the diagram. They will zip away if not correct.
- Robo Packer
Use the control buttons to flip and rotate the shapes to fit.
- Polyhedra
Models (nets)

Print, cut out, and form shapes.
- Solid Shapes & Their Nets
- Patterns for Solid Figures
and other Math Advantage E-Lab activities
See E-Lab, Grade 4
Tracing and Naming Faces
found in E-Lab, Grade 3
- Exploring Geometric Solids &
Their Properties

Click "Getting To Know The Shapes" to begin. Try checking the Transparent box
then clicking a color and a side on the shape to color it. Color each side a different
color.
- Shape
Surveyor

Area & Perimeter - Choose area, perimeter, or both and a level of difficulty.
Calculate the area or perimeter of each shape and type your answer in the box. A
hidden picture is revealed as you correctly answer. Information on the picture is
given when you finish.
- Bird's Eye View
What's a polygon? This is the perfect place to find out. Click the Lesson button to begin.
Read and click to progress. Locate the shapes in the bird's eye view pictures and answer
questions along the way.
Follow-up: Illustrate the shape your school. Use Google Earth
to get a bird's eye view of your school, and see how accurate you were.
- Math Circus - Math
Pairs - Shapes & Sides
Found in the Games category. Concentration game matching shapes with the number of sides.
One or two player. How many sides does a hexagon have?
- Fraction
Shapes
Open the interactive area by clicking the link to online pattern blocks. Click
the "Name" button, and then click any of the shapes to find out the name and
some information about that shape. Create designs with the shapes. Rotate a shape if you
need to by clicking the rotate button then the shape.
- Cyberchase Activities from PBS:
Airlines
Builder (spaceships) - includes area/perimeter
Tangrams
Symmetrizer
The index page, PBS Game Central,
also offers a 2D-3D Morphing printable activity (nets), plus more.
- Virtual Manipulatives
NLVM
including Tangram Puzzles, Virtual Geoboard, and more.
Select your grade level, PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, or 9-12, and then choose a manipulative. Read
an activity and use the tools to complete the task.
Tip - On the Geoboard you can click the Measures button. Clicking away from your shape on
the board causes the Measures button to become ghosted. Click anywhere on your band if you
want to use the Measures button. An Instruction button is available along the top if
needed.
- Learner.org
Geometry
- Quadrilateral
Quest
- Block
Corner, a Digital Building Tool
Put on your thinking cap and be creative! Read the directions page - Blockcorner Quickstart
Guide. What patterns can you create?
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