Lesson One – School Shapes

This maths teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise recognising and naming some examples of different 3D shapes that can be found in a range of locations around the school building and grounds.
The class can explain and model how to describe and make comparisons between different shapes based on their appearances and sizes matching individual properties.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise recognising and naming some examples of different 3D shapes that can be found in a range of locations around the school building and grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to record the name and location of some examples of different 3D shapes that can be found around the school building and grounds and a template to support the naming of the identified shapes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to recognise and name examples of different 3D shapes that can be found around the school.
This lesson is part of a maths scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare a range of different 3D shapes by their matching properties including their number of faces, edges 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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