If 2-D shapes have 2 dimensions (length and width) and 3-D shapes have 3 dimensions, what is the third dimension? Discuss what you would call this third dimension with the people near you.
If you go into a sweet shop where they keep the sweets in jars on shelves behind the counter, you will notice that some of the sweets are regular 3-D shapes. Can you think of a type of sweet in each of these 3-D shapes?
3-D Shape
Sphere Cube
Cuboid Cylinder
Cubes Type of Sweet
Copy this set of squares exactly onto a piece of paper. Then cut it out, fold it where the squares meet and stick it together to make a die of your own. Draw the correct number of dots on each of the faces. Use a real die to help you.
Strand: Shape and Space
Curriculum Objectives: Make, identify and examine 3-D shapes and explore relationships, including tetrahedron (faces, edges and vertices); draw the nets of simple 3-D shapes and construct the shapes.