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Conquering Solids

  • Grade 3
  • Mathematics
  • Spatial Sense

Description

In this activity, students classify and identify different solids by comparing their faces, vertices, edges and angles. Students then build cubes, prisms, and pyramids.

Learning goals

  • I identify different solids based on their geometric properties.
  • I classify different solids by comparing them.

Vocabulary

  • cube
  • prism
  • pyramid
  • cylinder
  • cone
  • development
  • faces, vertices, edges
  • angles
  • bases
  • apex
  • 3D, three-dimensional, three dimensions
  • 2D
  • flat figures, polygons
  • solids
  • solids with pentagonal base
  • solids with hexagonal base
  • geometric properties
  • rectangular, triangular
  • particularity
  • congruent
  • categories
  • class
  • attributes