Solids and Their Characteristics

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CubesCones Cylinders Pyramids Rectangular Prisms Spheres

Cones

Find clip art examples

Characteristics of a Cone

Choose two solids and compare them.

• Similarities • Differences

Names of solids:

Drag object that has a circle for a face in the pink part of the circle. Drag the object that has an even number of faces in the yellow part of the circle, and drag the object that fits both descriptions into the orange part of the circles.

Even number of faces

A circle for a face

DirectionsSlide 1: Students type their namesSlide 2: Students click and drag the clipart solids under the proper category title.Slide 3: Students find new examples of cones using clipart (you may need to discuss

shapes so that the students can have keywords for their search.)Slide 4: Students list the attributes of the solid. (ie number of faces, vertices, and edges.

They can also list the shapes that make up the faces.)Students can make copies of slide 3 and 4, change the name of the solid, and

complete the information for the other solids mentioned in slide 2. To make copies, click on the slide on the left, go to edit copy, and then click on edit paste. If you need to move the slides, click on the number and drag it to where you want it.

Slide 5: Students choose two solids and put their names in the box. Then students can use one box to compare similarities and the other to compare differences.

Students can make copies of this slide as well and then compare 2 different solids.Slide 6: Students read the clues carefully and drag the objects to their proper place.Once the students are finished, the students print the pages. To save paper, when the

students click on print there will be a Print screen that appears. In the lower left hand corner, there is a box that says Slides. If you click on the arrow next to the word slides you can choose to print the slides as handouts. This will allow you to print up to 6 slides on each page of paper.

Save this page in the student directory, make it a read-only document, and delete this slide so that the students don’t have it in there PowerPoint.