Lesson Four – Shape Mysteries

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify and illustrate a range of different 2D shapes by their matching properties including their number of sides and vertices to indicate their uniqueness.
The class can select and complete identification tags to label the unique properties of different shapes including their matching number of sides and vertices.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify and illustrate a range of different 2D shapes by their matching properties including their number of sides and vertices to indicate their uniqueness
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to identify and describe different 2D shapes by their properties including their number of sides and vertices and a template to select and record different 2D shapes by their matching unique properties.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify and illustrate different 2D shapes by their matching properties.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to recognise, describe and classify different 2D geometric shapes by their matching properties including their number of sides and vertices. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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