This learning activity, ‘Shapes in Life’, introduces a variety of solids, including both polyhedra such as cubes and closed surfaces such as spheres. Students are asked to identify both two-dimensional and three-dimensional shapes in photographs of everyday objects. The accompanying teaching notes provide suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This learning activity, ‘Follow That Thread’, explains how to make curve pictures by drawing lines on shapes and threading wool or string on cards. The lines create the envelopes of conic sections: ellipses, parabolas, circles, and hyperbolas. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this hands-on activity, ‘Slice of Life’, students use modelling clay or play dough to examine the cross-sections of different three-dimensional shapes. A recipe for cooked dough is included. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
In this learning activity, ‘Taking Flight’, students follow Lola’s line-dancing plan and work out how many repetitions are needed to return to the starting place. A second activity involves drawing the flight paths of everyday objects such as a paper aeroplane. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning …More
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