Does anyone have any fun activites to go along with learning the geometric solids. I have a great Math Jingles song the students love and ask to hear everyday. As a framework they also have to construct the solid figures. The math coach has some blocks that snap together and I have a pattern for making a cube and cylinder with paper.
I was just wondering if anyone had an actual lesson or activity.
I have made really cool 3-D shapes using gum drops for the vertices and toothpicks for the edges.
I do the attached sheet with my kids. I have a basket of 3-D solids that I pass out to teams. They complete the sheet with their group. I teach them to draw the shapes, which they love.
I like to make overheads of the nets of solid figures and have the students sift through their bucket of solid wooden shapes and hold up the solid for the net I have placed on the overhead. They LOVE this challenge!! (I would attach a sample - but I do not know how to attach word documents from my computer!!!!)
A good follow up to try the next day is giving them clues. And have them again hold up the answer to your clues. ie:
1. I have 5 faces, 6 vertices, and 9 edges. 2 of my faces are triangles and the rest are rectangles. What solid shape am I?
2. I have 5 vertices and 5 faces. 4 faces are triangles and the other is a rectangle. What solid shape am I?
3. I have no edges, no faces, and no vertices. What solid shape am I?
Technology is not my strongest area. I was wondering how to other teachers create the word documents using boxes (such as the 3D geometric solid worksheet).
Thank you for helping me out. I have so many ideas for making worksheets but no idea how to use word to create them.
01-21-2008, 10:38 AM
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