Curriculum Guides

Grade Level: Second

Content Area: Geometry

Skills: Identify 3-dimensional figures

To identify the name (triangle, circle, square, rectangle) of a given face of a solid.

Instructional Practices: Connections

Material Needed: Cone shape, cube shape, sphere shape, cylinder shape, and rectangular shape

Technology: Linkway

Pattern Blocks

Patterns and Shapes

Reflecting on Patterns

Activity:

Display a cone, cube, sphere, cylinder and rectangular solid. Point to the faces of the figures, and have the students name them.

Theme Ideas:

Discuss the different shapes of buildings in the community. Discuss the way construction workers measure in the workplace.