Exploring 2-D Shapes

This WebQuest was created for use in teaching 2nd grade Common Core Geometry standards.  It can be completed individually or roles may be assigned for group work.  Please provide students the documents below to be used with the WebQuest activities. 

Standards

Georgia Standards of Excellence:

MGSE2.G.1 Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces. Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

MGSE2.G.2 Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-size squares to find the total number of them.

MGSE2.G.3 Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, or four equal shares, describe the shares using the words halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc., and describe the whole as two halves, three thirds, four fourths. Recognize that equal shares of identical wholes need not have the same shape.