Grade 2 · Math · Unit
Shapes, Solids, and Symmetry
6 lessonsabout 3 weeks
The unit ends with three more days: a review day, a day for your own unit check, and a day to act on what the check showed.
Unit 9 of 9 in the Grade 2 Math Scope and Sequence
What's included in this unit
- 6 lessons in teaching order, each with its objective and a teacher note
- 26 practice pages to print, with an easier and a harder page where available
- 1 classroom tools for the projector
- 5 activities and pages that children do on a screen
- 5 check-up pages to collect
- A worksheet maker for every lesson, for the day you need one more page
The whole unit in one file
Print every page of the unit at once, with the teacher guide first. The guide has one page per lesson: the objective, what to hand out, and the teacher note.
The unit file, the teacher guide, and saved pages are included with the Teacher plan.
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Lessons
Lesson 1
Sort shapes by sides
Children count the sides of flat shapes and match each shape to its number of sides.
- StandardCommon Core 2.G.A.1Geometry
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Shape Sorter
Practice on screen
Sort Shapes by Sides — Triangles, Quadrilaterals, Pentagons & Hexagons
Lesson 2
Solid shapes around us
Children match a sphere, cube, cylinder, cone, rectangular prism, or pyramid to a real object with the same shape.
- ReviewsCommon Core K.G.A.2Geometry
- ReviewsCommon Core K.G.A.1Geometry
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Solid Shapes Around Us
Practice on screen
Lesson 3
Faces, edges, and vertices (corners)
Children count the flat faces, the edges, and the corners of solid shapes and write the numbers.
- StandardCommon Core 2.G.A.1Geometry
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
Practice on paper
Count the Faces
Count the Edges
Count the Corners
Practice on screen
Lesson 4
Is it a line of symmetry?
Children decide whether a dashed line cuts a picture into two matching halves, and pick the picture that is the same on both sides.
- Later gradeCommon Core 4.G.A.3Geometry
3 class days
- Day 1Teach: The Folding Sheet · Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Practice on screen · Check-up page
- Day 3Reteach and extend: Act on the check-up pages: reteach the children who are not there yet, with the tool and a new page from the maker; the others take a harder page.
Warm up and teach
Practice on paper
Mirror Line?
Find the Mirror Picture
Practice on screen
Lesson 5
Finish the other half
Children finish a half-drawn picture so that both sides of the line match like a mirror.
3 class days
- Day 1Teach: The Folding Sheet · Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice and check: Practice on paper (Easier page, Harder page) · Check-up page
- Day 3Reteach and extend: Act on the check-up pages: reteach the children who are not there yet, with the tool and a new page from the maker; the others take a harder page.
Warm up and teach
Practice on paper
Symmetry Picture Tracing: Trace the Other Half
Easy Symmetry Drawing
Lesson 6
Which one matches the shadow?
Children compare tangram figures with a shadow and choose the one that stands exactly the same way, not turned and not flipped.
2 class days
- Day 1Teach: Practice on paper (Core page)
- Day 2Practice: More pages from the maker · Practice on screen
Practice on paper
Tangram Puzzles: Which Solution Matches the Shadow?
