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More shapes, and where things are

Describe more flat shapes and distinguish flat outlines from solid objects.

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1. What you will learn

Today we describe shape properties and tell a flat design from a solid object.

2. Shape words

3. Look at properties

A hexagon has six straight sides. A rhombus has four equal straight sides; a square is a special rhombus with square corners. An oval has a stretched-round curved outline. A star has points and inward turns. Check the boundary instead of naming a shape from its color or which way it points.

Another way: picture

These pictures represent two flat outlines and two solid toys.

4. Flat and solid

A circle is flat. A ball is a solid, like a sphere: it takes up space in every direction. A cube block is solid too, with flat square faces. Tracing one face can make a flat square, but that square is not the whole block. Pictures of solids remain flat pictures; think about the objects they represent.

5. Shape shelf

Find a safe solid toy and trace one outline. Describe how they differ. Put the toy beside, above or below the drawing and name that relationship to a partner.

6. Block and face

1. 

   Look at the second object.

   A cube block.

   Several faces are shown.

2. Imagine tracing one face.

   A flat square.

   One face is not the whole solid.

7. Ball and outline

1. 

   Find the third object.

   A ball.

   It represents a solid sphere.

2. Your turn: work this step out. Its working is at the end of the packet.

   Compare the first design.

8. Guided practice

Which shape is an oval with a curved outline and no corners?

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9. Guided practice

 What name fits this six-sided shape?

• Hexagon
• Triangle
• Oval

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10. Guided practice

A toy ball is round in every direction and takes up space. Which describes the ball itself?

• Sphere, a solid
• Circle, a flat shape
• Square, a flat shape

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11. Practice

Match each flat shape to its number of straight sides.

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12. Somewhere new

A toy designer wants the two FLAT OUTLINE designs, not the solid toys represented here. Mark both flat designs.

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13. Somewhere new

A child holds a ball ABOVE a circle drawn on a mat. Which statement describes the solid and its position?

• The solid ball is above the flat circle
• The flat ball is above the solid circle
• The solid ball is below the flat circle

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14. Lesson test

Lesson test: one question per skill, one attempt each, no hints. Your answers are checked when you submit.

15. Test question

Mark both drawings that represent solid toys you could turn in your hands.

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16. What you can do now

Explain how a ball differs from its circle outline and describe the ball's position near another object.

Working for the steps left to you

7. Ball and outline, step 2