Lesson 5: Explore the properties of 3-D shapes

Year 2 12.2.21

edge vertex vertices

apex faces cone

sphere cuboid cube

cylinder pyramid

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LI: To name and describe 3-D shapes

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What objects can you see in the classroom and at home that look like the 3-D shapes you know?

How is a cube

different from a

2-D shape?

sphere

cylinder

cone cube cuboid

pyramid

Task - Properties of 3-D shapesT

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1) The card I have chosen has 6 faces, has 12 edges and has 8 vertices.

2) Looking at the shapes, I think that

matches the cuboid because it has 6 faces,

12 edges and 8 vertices.

Select and read a card.

Find the matching shape.

3) I think it could also match the cube

because the cube also has 6 faces, 12edges and 8 vertices.

cuboid

Has 6 faces.

Has 12 edges.

Has 8 vertices.

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What do these shapes have in common?

Which 3-D shapes

could be stacked

on top of each

other?

Which cannot?

Which 3-D shapes

can roll?

Which cannot?

Which shapes

would be most

useful when

building a tower?

Why?