Nets of 3D Shapes Year 6: Interactive Maths Lessons & 3D Geometry Worksheets

Build Year 6 pupils’ understanding of 3D shape nets with this interactive digital lesson.

Aligned to the Year 6 National Curriculum requirement to recognise, describe and build 3D shapes including making nets, this resource shows how cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones, triangular prisms, square-based pyramids, hexagonal prisms and tetrahedrons unfold into and fold back from their 2D nets.

What’s Inside

• Interactive animations showing each 3D shape unfolding into its net and folding back
• Face, edge and vertex identification activities for each shape
• “Which net makes this shape?” matching tasks
• Printable worksheet
• 30 interactive slides

Key Benefits for Students

• Builds spatial reasoning for SATs and secondary-level geometry
• Connects 2D nets directly to their 3D shapes
• Develops vocabulary for faces, edges and vertices

Teachers can use this for whole-class teaching; pupils can also use it independently at home.