Lesson 2 Step Sort 3 D shapes Year

Lesson 2 Step: Sort 3 D shapes

Year 1 Classify shapes NAHT KPI 1. 2. 3 Recognise and name common 3 -D shapes in different orientations and sizes i. e. including cuboids (including cubes), pyramids and spheres Beginning: The pupil can select a pyramid from a set of 3 -D shapes, with support. Advancing: The pupil can select a pyramid from a set of 3 -D shapes. Deep: The pupil can sort a collection of 3 -D shapes while naming them correctly and describing some of their characteristics.

Ask the children to look around the room. If you are at home have a look in the kitchen or your food cupboards. Can they see any 3 D shapes? Cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders, cones, pyramids?

Which is the odd one out? Explain how you know. This shape is a cuboid. The other shapes are cubes.

Which is the odd one out? Explain how you know. This shape is a pyramid. The other shapes are cones.

Which is the odd one out? Explain how you know. This shape is a cylinder. The other shapes are spheres.

Fluency Place the shapes into the correct groups. Cylinders Cuboids

Fluency Place the shapes into the correct groups. Cones Pyramids

Practice Children to complete only one of the worksheets; either the One, Two or Three Star worksheets. ★☆☆ - Beginning: See – Worksheets – Sort 2 D shapes (Page 1 & 2) – Children will pick out the odd 2 D shape from a group and sort shapes into groups. ★★☆ - Advancing: See – Worksheets – Sort 2 D shapes (Page 3 & 4) – Children will pick out the odd 2 D shape from a group of similar-looking 2 D shapes and sort shapes into groups. They will use reasoning skills to explain if given shapes have been sorted correctly. ★★★ - Deep: See – Worksheets – Sort 2 D shapes (Page 5 & 6) – Children will pick out and draw the odd 2 D shape from a group of similar-looking 2 D shapes and sort shapes into groups. They will use reasoning and problem solving skills to explain if given shapes have been sorted correctly.

Independent Activity

Children to go on a hunt for 3 D objects e. g. pencils, glue sticks, tins, dice, boxes. Ask them to sort them into 2 groups and label them e. g. cylinders and cubes.

A number of 3 D shapes and objects have been sorted. No Have the shapes been sorted correctly? _____ Explain how you know. The shapes have been sorted into cubes and cylinders. The present is in the incorrect group. It should be with the cubes.

How could these shapes be sorted? Big shapes / small shapes. Yellow shapes / red shapes. Cubes / spheres.