Shapes Teaching Resources
This comprehensive collection contains a variety of 2D shape and 3D object teaching resources. Use the educational posters as a visual stimulus in your primary classroom. Also provided are hands-on learning activities, games, vocabulary word wall cards, nets of shapes and a maths mentals widget. Use the pre and post tests to ascertain each student's prior knowledge before starting a shape unit of work.
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Geometric Reasoning Worksheets - Year 3
2 geometric reasoning worksheets linked to the Australian Curriculum.
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Tessellating Shapes Worksheet Set
Download this tessellating shapes worksheet set to introduce your students to the beauty of tesselations.
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Drawing Parallel Lines and Perpendicular Lines Worksheet Set
Utilise this drawing parallel lines and perpendicular lines worksheet set to give your students practice drawing line types on their own and on 2D shapes.
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Angle Word Problems – Worksheet
Download these angles word problem worksheets so your students can practise calculating missing angles.
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Angles as Measures of a Turn Teaching Slides
Teach your students about the relationship between measures of a turn and right angles with this teaching presentation for Year 3 students.
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Types of Angles Task Cards
Explore the six main types of angles with this set of 24 task cards.
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Types of Triangles Interactive Game
Explore the properties of acute, right and obtuse triangles with this interactive space adventure!
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Advanced Angles Poster Pack
Teach your students about alternate, co-interior, corresponding and vertically opposite angles with this set of classroom posters.
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2D Shapes Poster
Use this colourful poster with a collection of 2D shapes in your maths classroom.
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2D-3D Shape Posters
Use this set of 14 brightly coloured 2D and 3D shape posters to decorate your classroom and build academic vocabulary.
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Missing Angle Small Group Bingo
Practise how to find the measurement of a missing angle with this small group bingo game.
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Missing Angle Task Cards
Practise how to find the measure of a missing angle with this set of 18 task cards.
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Memory Matcher PowerPoint – 3D Shapes
Recognise and recall the names of some of the most common 3D objects with a digital memory game!
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Memory Matcher PowerPoint – 2D Shapes
An interactive memory match-up game where students recall the names of shapes.
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2D Shape Match-up Puzzles
A set of puzzles that match up 2D shapes and their properties.
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I Have, Who Has? – Complementary and Supplementary Angles Game
Play a whole-class game to review complementary and supplementary angles.
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Printable Protractor Templates
Teach your students how to measure angles using a protractor with these 180° and 360° printable protractor templates.
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2D Shape Character Templates
A cute 2D shape display for your classroom.
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Tangram Activity
A poster showing examples of tangram shapes and a tangram template.
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Parallel and Perpendicular Lines in Shapes Sorting Activity
Identify parallel and perpendicular lines in shapes in this engaging sorting activity!
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2D Shape Matching Puzzles
Use these 2D shape puzzles to help familiarise your students with the most common two-dimensional shapes.
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Draw the 2D Shape! Worksheet
Use this single-page symmetry worksheet to spark students’ creativity, as they think of and draw shapes which fit the provided lines of symmetry.
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Pattern Block Butterflies Symmetry Task Cards
Bring some colourful fun into your classroom with these symmetry butterflies, a hands-on learning activity for young students to explore the concept of symmetry.
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Identifying Lines of Symmetry Worksheets
Use this set of differentiated worksheets to help students practise the process involved with identifying lines of symmetry on two-dimensional shapes.
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Identifying Lines of Symmetry Poster
Display this poster in your classroom as a reference tool for students to learn to identify lines of symmetry.
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Directions with Right Angle Turns Worksheet
Teach your students to give and follow directions using right angles with this 2-page maths worksheet for Year 3 students.
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Measuring and Drawing Angles – Task Cards
Improve student understanding of angle measurement with this set of 24 task cards.
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Angles in Our Environment Teaching Slides
Explore angles in the environment using this comprehensive teaching presentation for Year 3 students.
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3D Objects Scavenger Hunt - Worksheet
Discover three-dimensional objects in the real world with a scavenger hunt.
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3D Object Cafe- Interactive Activity
Practise identifying 3D objects and their properties in multiple ways with this engaging interactive activity.
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2D Shapes Mini Book
Engage your students and inspire them to read and learn about 2-D shapes and with a printable book.
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Printable Angle Maker Template
Create and classify some angles with this hands-on printable that is super fun to use.