Digital project ideas for learning about shapes in the primary grades!
Wixie transforms the study of shapes from abstract concepts into creative, meaningful learning experience, giving primary-grade students an intuitive space to explore geometry with drag-and-drop shapes, drawing tools, and templates tailored to their developmental level.
Through hands-on, visually rich activities and projects like those on this page, primary learners deepen their spatial reasoning, strengthen their understanding of geometry, and connect math to real-world objects around them. They also build communication skills, creativity, and digital literacy.
Identifying Shapes
Students categorize objects in their environment into basic shapes.
Lesson plan
Composite Shapes
Standards for Kindergarten state that students “model shapes in the world by drawing shapes (K.G.B.5) and composing simple shapes to form larger shapes (K.G.B.6).”
Combine Shapes with Storytelling
Read Grandfather Tang's Story by Ann Tompert. Have students create their own shapes using the tangram pieces and then tell the story of the shape they have created.
Virtual manipulatives, practice and agency
Assign a Shape Workbook so that students can progress at their own pace, spending the time necessary to practice new and unfamiliar geometry concepts and demonstrating mastery.
Give students choice
Use a choice board to put students in charge of how they will explore shapes.
More ways teachers are using Wixie
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Composite Shape Homes
Our PK students used images in #wixie to create shape homes @Tech4Learning @SaratogaESFCPS @FCPSPreKEHS pic.twitter.com/fniNdDOcM7
— Debbie Tannenbaum #develop (@TannenbaumTech) November 30, 2022 -
Shape Choice Board
Using Wixie's choice board to review shapes. pic.twitter.com/lxPRtw6TEb
— Mrs. Hulme (@MrsHulme2) September 30, 2022 -
Shape Books
Today some of our 1st graders are making shape books in #Wixie to add to their book boxes! They added pictures and wrote sentences about each one! @rudd_robin #scestech pic.twitter.com/cgfySYEw0C
— Mrs. Charnick (@CharnickSCES) November 9, 2018 -
Plane and Solid Shapes
2nd graders use Wixie to build their dream house using plane and solid shapes #STEM #maththinking #ourFCPS @FCPSR3 @snyderinsecond pic.twitter.com/V1uBa1tEox
— Gunston ES (@GunstonElem) November 13, 2017 -
Monster Shapes
Creating monsters using shapes on Wixie ???? #EtterKinder pic.twitter.com/F4WjYYpz37
— Erin Etter (@erinetter) October 30, 2017 -
Circles
Today�s after PARCC #wixie challenge: how many things can you think of that are circles? pic.twitter.com/txs7MnyOaO
— AACPS Instruct Tech (@aacpsoit) May 9, 2018 -
Composite Shapes
My kinders use #wixie to create new shapes with smaller shapes. Love the templates in #wixie and how you can search by grade level standards and assign to your class. @Tech4Learning #patternblocks #kindergarten #dodeaMAD pic.twitter.com/JHuSbHpq4t
— gracie k (@gracemejin) March 30, 2018 -
Geometric Shape Search
5th graders are celebrating #DLDay by using #wixie to find geometric shapes on various landscapes. #DLDayPWCS @OfficialDLDay #tmeseagles #pwcsproud pic.twitter.com/EhnguP4csL
— Mrs. Stark (@TMESTechnology) February 22, 2018 -
2D and 3D Shapes with a Literature Connection
2nd graders made plans and used Wixie to build their Dream Home with 2D and 3D shapes. @ForestdaleES @Tech4Learning pic.twitter.com/OSyZFGJ5f4
— Erin Criss (@Falcon_Criss) November 16, 2017
Students are using Wixie to bring their words, their voice, and their art to the curriculum.
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