Identifying and Naming 3D Shapes

By the end of this unit, children will be able to:

• identify and name basic solid shapes, such as cubes, spheres, cones, and cylinders.
• sort and classify objects by their shape attributes, such as the number of faces, edges, or corners.
• use solid shapes to create simple structures and designs, such as stacking cubes to make a tower or arranging cones in a pattern.
• use spatial reasoning to identify and match solid shapes, such as finding a sphere that is the same size as a cube.
• recognize and describe the solid shapes they see in their environment, such as the shapes of toys, household items, and natural objects.
• use solid shapes to create representations of objects and ideas, such as using a cylinder to represent a tree trunk or a cone to represent a party hat.

Curriculum Alignment:

• Development Matters − Reception − Select, rotate and manipulate shapes to develop spatial reasoning skills.
• Birth to 5 Matters − Range 6 − Investigates turning and flipping objects in order to make shapes fit and create models; predicting and visualising how they will look (spatial reasoning)