This hands-on activity, ‘City Skyline’, shows the front view of six city buildings. Students need to draw the nets of each building and then construct and decorate cardboard models of the buildings. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This shape template, ‘Cube Pattern’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This shape template, ‘Number Cube Pattern’ can be reproduced for classroom use.
This hands-on activity, ‘Nutting out Nets’, explores the relationship of three-dimensional shapes and their nets. Students use the square grid paper to make a cube, a triangular prism, a square-based prism, a tetrahedron, and a rectangular prism. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Roll Over’, explains how a net is a pattern of polygons that can be folded to form a polyhedron. Students create nets by rolling and tracing a box and a play-dough house. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.