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Lesson 6 - Making Pictures with Shapes

To encourage students to have fun on the Web while learning about Making Pictures with Shapes, here are some games and interactive activities they can do on their own or in pairs.

Goal

Use 2-D shapes to represent real objects.

Instructions for Use

Shape Cave is a game that mixes math and reading.

To use Shape Cave, students must follow instructions to correctly identify simple geometric shapes, which then assemble themselves into a picture.

Searching for Shapes prompts students to observe where shapes can be found in the environment.

To use Searching for Shapes, click on a shape. Click on the pictures to enlarge them. Have students try to identify what each object is and find the shape in the object.