Disciplinary areas: Numeracy

Date: 03 / 11 / 16

Topic: Introduction to 3D shapes and their features

Year level: Grade 2

Duration of lesson:

Class size: 11 students

Intended learning intention:

Students will learn the basic difference between a 2D shape and a 3D shape. They will also learn the different features that
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make 3D shapes unique.

Successful criteria:
Students will
canbe
identify
the length,
height and depth of range of different shapes.
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successful
when
Students can identify and count the shapes faces, verticies and edges.

Links to Curriculum: Measurement and Geometry

Describe the features of three-dimensional objects (VCMMG121)

Students prior knowledge:

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Students are able to provide the specific names for 3D shapes

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Teaching Model used:

- Explicit Instruction / Teacher Modeling
- Guided Practice / Interactive Modelling
- Independent working time
Introduction, building interest and linking to prior knowledge
(10 minutes)
- Pass out a set of 3D shapes to each group as well as the 3D Shapes worksheets to each student.
- Define a shape's faces as its flat sides, a shape's edges as the line where two faces meet, and a shape's vertices as
the point where two edges meet.
- Having students stay in their groups, have them examine the 3D shapes together to identify the number of faces,
edges, and vertices each has.
- Have students then look at the 3D Shapes worksheet to determine the names of the solids shown.
Learning Activities designed to meet lesson objectives
Explicit Instruction/Teacher Modeling (10 minutes)

Ask students to think about the characteristics of each shape and how it determines how the shape could move.
For example, can the shape roll? Can it be stacked?

Have students volunteer their thoughts and test them with the set of 3D shapes.

Review the number of sides, edges, and vertices each shape has once more.
Guided Practice/Interactive Modeling (15 minutes)

With a partner, invite children to use the characteristics of the shapes to play I Spy.

In this game, students should take turns identifying solids by listening to clues such as, I spy with my little eye
something that can stack.

Children get three guesses before another attribute is added, such as I spy with my little eye something that can
stack and has 6 faces.

The student who guesses will have to explain how he or she knows. They will then give clues for the next object.
Culminating Activity designed to allow students to apply their knowledge
Independent working time (10 minutes)
- Students will work independently to complete the 3D Shapes worksheet.
Catering for Inclusion:
Students that are below:
- Allow struggling students to continue to use the 3D shapes as they complete the lesson.
Students that are above:
- Advanced students may write a more detailed entry in their math journals.
Closure:

- Bring students together to review the characteristics of solids and how we use those characteristics to sort 3D figures.

Formative Assessment:

- Ask students to hand in their worksheets when finished.

- Have students write 4 sentences in their math journals about the characteristics of 3D shapes.
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