Lesson Plan
Solid Shape Sort
Give your students a head start on 3D shapes with this lesson that has them use their observational skills to identify what differentiates the shapes.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify different 3D solids given their characteristics.
Introduction
(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.