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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Building With Angles – Interactive Game
Transport your students to a local construction site to solve building-related angle problems with this interactive maths game.
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2D Shapes - Interactive PowerPoint Presentation
An interactive PowerPoint presentation that teaches the features of 2D shapes.
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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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Drawing 2D Shapes Worksheet
A worksheet with questions regarding 2D shapes.
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Geometric Reasoning Worksheets - Year 6
2 worksheets linked to the Australian Curriculum.
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Parallel and Perpendicular Lines PPT — Teaching Slides
Download this parallel and perpendicular lines PPT to engage your students as you teach them about different line types!
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Identifying Parallel and Perpendicular Lines in Shapes Worksheet Pack
Present this parallel and perpendicular lines in shapes worksheet pack to your students to give them practice identifying attributes of 2D shapes.
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Line and Rotational Symmetry Sorting Activity
Have your students determine whether each object has line symmetry, rotational symmetry, or no symmetry, with this fun cut and paste worksheet.
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Shape Investigation 2D Figures Task Cards
Combine fun and learning with these 2D shapes and symmetry task cards for your Grade Four students!
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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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Right Angle Turns: Spin and Win! – Interactive Game
Get your Year 3 students spinning to win with this engaging digital maths game about right angles as measures of a turn.
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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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3D Objects Maths Investigation – Be an Architect!
Relate knowledge of 3D objects to the real world with this student-led mathematics project.
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2D Shape Poster Set
Use this set of 16 brightly coloured 2D shapes with your geometry lessons.
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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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Real-World 3D Objects - Sorting Activity
Practise identifying and sorting three-dimensional objects with this set of 24 sorting cards.
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Sorting 2D Shapes and 3D Objects (Pot of Gold Theme)
Sort coins that feature 2D shapes and 3D objects into their corresponding pots with a St. Patricks Day theme!
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Scarecrow Shape Hunt Worksheet
Practice identifying circles, squares, triangles and rectangles with a Scarecrow Shape hunt worksheet.
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Finding Corresponding Angles – Year 7 Maths Worksheet
Identify and calculate corresponding angles with this one-page maths worksheet.
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Angle Sum of a Quadrilateral – Year 7 Maths Worksheet
Calculate the missing angle in a variety of quadrilaterals with this one-page worksheet.
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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 Bingo
Engage your students while consolidate learning about 2D shapes, their names and properties with 2D Shape Bingo!
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Tangram Activity
A poster showing examples of tangram shapes and a tangram template.
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Tangram Treats – Task Cards and Templates
Explore the properties of geometric shapes with this set of scaffolded tangram shapes task cards and cut-out tangram templates.
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Pattern Block Design Cards
Build shape recognition and have fun building composite figures with Pattern Block Design Cards.
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Sorting by Symmetry: 2D Shape Task Cards
Help students practise sorting 2D shapes by the number of lines of symmetry using this fun set of mathematics sorting cards.
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Symmetry Pattern Design Worksheet
Have your students create real-world symmetrical representations using this 3-page symmetry worksheet set and a tub of pattern blocks.
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Identifying Lines of Symmetry Task Cards
Use this set of 24 task cards to help your students practise identifying lines of symmetry in 2D shapes.
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Regular and Irregular Polygons
A poster chart showing regular and irregular polygons.
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Shape Seekers PowerPoint
An interactive 162-slide PowerPoint that follows the story of a professor and their new invention that turns 2D shapes into 3D objects.
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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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Finding Co-Interior Angles – Year 7 Maths Worksheet
Identify and calculate co-interior angles with this one-page maths worksheet.