Geometric thinking resources

Students predict nets that fold to make a cube, then cut out and fold the nets to check their prediction.

Students identify which nets can be folded to make an open box shape.

Students construct 3-dimensional shapes from plasticine and predict what the cross-section will be prior to cutting it.

Students observe and draw 4 views of 3-dimensional objects in relation to each other and use these drawings to predict the top view of the same objects.

This practical task requires students to construct a model based on a diagram of a similar model. They then draw their model onto isometric paper.

This practical task requires students to construct a model, using blocks, from drawings of five different view points of that model.

This task requires students to circle a corner, an edge, and a face on three different shapes. Students then count how many corners, edges, and faces each shape has altogether.

This task requires students to draw the cross-sections of three differently shaped 3-dimensional containers.

Without looking, and by feeling a range of 3-dimensional objects, students describe physical features of each object.

Students identify which net, when folded, would look like the 3-dimensional shape shown.

Students identify the cross-sections of various pieces of fruit will look like when they are sliced.

In this practical task, students make specified 3-dimensional shapes, and then sort them into two groups according to criteria that the student defines.

In this practical task students construct 3-dimensional shapes from modelling clay then cut them in half and draw their cross-sections.

In this practical task, students draw pictures of 3-dimensional prisms onto a square grid. A net for each prism is provided.

In this practical task students use straws to construct skeleton models of 3-dimensional shapes from given drawings.

Students cut out tangram shapes and arrange them to fit two different ways into rectangle outlines and once into a triangle outline.

In this practical task, students first construct a 3-dimensional object from a drawing, then draw five different 2-dimensional views of it on a grid.

Given five views of the same 3-dimensional shape, students use multi-link cubes to construct it.

In this practical task, students cut out triangles and rectangles to make three different nets for a triangular prism.

Students draw reflections of a number of words.

Students complete pictures by drawing in the other side of a mirror line.

Students identify shapes with given shape properties.

This task requires students to indicate the invariant properties of four transformations (translation, reflection, rotation, enlargement).

Students identify the number of faces for different 3-dimensional models.

Students draw lines on shapes to show how they have been constructed from four smaller shapes.