1st and 2nd Grade Common Core Classifying Two-Dimensional Shapes Resources : Page 2

Triangles, trapezoids, rhombi...oh my! Identifying different shapes is an important milestone for young learners. Use this colorful activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to recognize and differentiate between 2-D shapes.

This is a great activity to assess your students’ understanding of geometry and fractions! Students will draw lines to divide various shapes into equal shares and then color in a portion to match the given fractions.

Have your students put their knowledge of shapes and division to the test with this quick math assessment. This activity will assess your first graders’ abilities to divide various 2-D shapes into equal shares.

Give your students an opportunity to practice identifying and differentiating pentagons from other 2-D shapes with this fun geometry activity.

Show your child that shapes are more than just lines on a page with this worksheet that challenges him to find all the shapes in the picture.

This fun cookie worksheet will help your students learn to divide cookies into halves, thirds, and fourths.

Can your child recognize the pattern of the words? This basic pattern recognition worksheet features simple words combined with a fun coloring exercise.

Get ready to slice up that pizza! This worksheet has multiple pizzas divided into fractions of fourths. Your students will choose the fraction term that matches the illustration to complete each sentence correctly.

This critical thinking activity provides your students with already partitioned wholes to promote discussion on the idea of equal shares.

Can your first graders tell the difference between a square and a cube? How about a triangle and a cone? Use this geometry assessment to gauge your students’ abilities to use attributes to sort 2-D and 3-D shapes.

Challenge your students to solve the riddles and reveal the mystery shapes on this geometry worksheet. Descriptions of the shapes are disguised as clues.

Use these this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Composing Shapes.

This pie chart is missing some data! Give your little one a fun activity with this blank pie chart, which introduces her to fractions and the idea of graphing.

Get ready to have your class thinking about thirds! This worksheet will have your second graders identifying different fractions of thirds.

This printable worksheet includes six different shapes: Rectangle, circle, hexagon, rectangular prism, sphere, and triangle. Can they match the shape to its name?

Build student understanding of the defining attributes of triangles with this sorting activity. Students will cut out different shape cards and sort them into examples and non-examples of triangles.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Equal Shares.

Want to breathe a little color into your geometry lesson? Help students understand lines of symmetry by having them identify and decorate symmetrical butterflies. The end result will be beautiful!

Get ready to spin it to win it! This worksheet features an entertaining spin game that will test your students' knowledge of fractions

Your first graders probably have squares and circles down, but what about trapezoids and ovals? Use this great geometry activity to assess your students’ abilities to recognize and draw 2-D shapes by their name alone.

Use this language routine to elicit meaningful conversation among your 2nd grade students! Will students be able to ask their partners for the information they need to name that shape?

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Equal Shares.

Mmm, these cookie fractions are making me hungry! Give your child a head start learning his fractions with a great visual worksheet.

Boost geometry knowledge and enhance creativity with this fun math worksheet.

Use these cards as a visual reference for students who will divide and draw toppings on a personal pizza. Use in conjunction with the Share a Pizza worksheet.

Hexagons make for funny faces! Help your students develop an understanding of this 2-D shape by differentiating them from other shapes and then turning them into silly hexagonal faces.

With this worksheet, your second graders will match a picture of a fraction to the correct math sentence.

Are your students still tripped up by those tricky trapezoids? This geometry worksheet can help! Give your second graders a chance to have fun while they practice trapezoid identification with this cut-and-paste activity.