Description!
To begin, students will share the attributes that they wrote in their charts while exploring 3D objects in the prior lesson. What students share will be written on chart paper to create a Attributes of 3D objects list just as we had done with 2D shapes. Then, to finish out the lesson, students will be doing hands-on work with constructing and replicating 2D shapes and 3D objects
using playdoh and toothpicks. This will be a great visual for students to indicate vertices and to
visualize 3D objects. !
Materials!
- Chart paper and markers!
- Toothpicks!
- Play-doh or modelling clay!
- SMARTboard blank page!
- Next, students will take from their circle and create four small balls. They will build a cube by
sticking the toothpicks into the balls and connecting them. !
- Students will then take a part their cube leaving only a square. They will use this square to
build up into a pyramid by adding one vertices at the top. !
- Students will take a part their pyramid to make a triangle. !
- The teacher will instruct students to create other 2D shapes and 3D objects that they have
been learning about (hexagon, rhombus, small rhombus, rectangle etc). !
Differentiation!
- Students will have access to example shapes to model after as well as hands-on materials!
Assessment!
- Students are assessed formatively using a checklist for specific grade 1 and grade 2 New
Brunswick Curricular Outcomes!