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Learning Guides
Ship-Shape Go to the website and make a ship. It could be a sailing ship, a rocket ship, an alien space ship – any kind of ship! Use lots of different shapes and colours. Don’t forget to make them bigger and smaller if you need to. You can also turn them around by using the rotate arrows. Think about the purpose of your ship. Print your ship to use as a plan. Use GeoTilesand other items in your classroom to build your ship in 3D! Take a digital photograph and post it to the class blog. http://www.iboard.co.uk/iwb/Picture-Making-with-Shapes-653 • Your Shapes: • How many faces, edges and corners do they have? • Are they 2D or 3D? • How do they fit together? • Why are you using those colours? • What kind of ship are you building? • What kind of ships are your friends building?
Australian Curriculum: Mathematics – Year 1 STRAND: SUB-STRAND: Content Description: Elaboration: Measurement and Geometry Shape Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious features. Focusing on geometric features and describing shapes and objects using everyday words such as ‘corners’, ‘edges’ and ‘faces’.