2D shape
The 2D shapes topic contains all you'll need to teach lessons about sides, corners and the properties and symmetry of a range of two dimensional shapes.
Catch the shape
Visit in a new windowWhat a cracker - children will love it. Click on the shape, then click on the name of the shape at the bottom of the screen. Includes all shapes children should know by the end of KS1. Usual favourites plus octagon, pentagon and hexagon.
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Crick virtual pinboard
Visit in a new windowThere's a lot of e-pinboards around, but we like this because of its ease of use and the fact that you can bring rulers and protractors onto it too. Use a photo-capture tool with your whiteboard and you could turn this into a very slick lesson.
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Folding shapes
Visit in a new windowGreat for properties of shape and lessons on symmetry. Includes rhombus, trapezoid and parallelogram as well as the shapes you would expect of year 2.
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How to make tessellations
Visit in a new windowExplanations are good for teachers' notes and perhaps some upper KS2.
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Making rectangles
Visit in a new windowDrag shapes to the board to make rectangles. A logic based open ended activity.
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Match the cards
Visit in a new windowRead the descriptions and match the cards. Features an octagon. Drag the shape names from the right of the page to the description on the left.
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Names of more tricky 2D shapes
Visit in a new windowMore suitable for KS2. Classic memory game. Do you know the difference between a parallelogram and a trapezoid?
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Quadrilaterals information
Visit in a new windowIncludes basic information on the deltoid, trapezium, kite, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle and square.
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Right angles shape sort
Visit in a new windowSort these shapes according to the right angles.
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Shape grid
Visit in a new windowWe love the ease of use that this site offers. Creative questioning is the key to getting the most out of it. Can be used to teach perimeter and area as well as symmetry.
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Simple number of sides shape sort
Visit in a new windowSorting simple shapes by number of sides into a table.
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Sorting triangles
Visit in a new windowSort isosceles, equilateral and scalene triangles using a Venn diagram.
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Spy the simple shape
Visit in a new windowUse the spot to spy through the circle at a mystery shape. Ideal for reception and foundation stage, includes square, triangle circle etc..
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Tangram puzzle
Visit in a new windowAs you'd expect - simple and easy to use tangram puzzle.
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Tangrams
Visit in a new windowWe love this simple tangram game. Why not use it as a plenary for a lesson on 2D shape properties. To have a go, each child has to describe the properties of the shape they wish to use.
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Tangrams game
Visit in a new windowYou know how tangrams work - a great way to encourage children to rearrange shapes in their heads. A good mental maths activity.
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Tessellations
Visit in a new windowA tessellation activity for the teacher to create tesselations which can be discussed with the class.
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Tessellations
Visit in a new windowYou can't go wrong with examples of tessellations. Lots of images and a few from the man himself, Escher.
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Tessellations for children
Visit in a new windowThis takes a good minute or so to load, a simple activity to encourage children to investigate tessellations. Great.
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What's my shape?
Visit in a new windowUse the properties to guess the shape. All the simple shapes and semi circle, hexagon and pentagon. Ideal for year 2 NNS expectations. Please make sure you have installed the Flash player on your computer first.
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