Bird shapes 0 Overview Using this Resource Connecting to the Curriculum Marking Student Responses Working with Students Further Resources This task is about identifying 2-D shapes. The Geo Bird has a body that is made of different shapes. Write down the shape name of each body part labelled below. Task administration: This task can be completed with pencil and paper. Level: 3 Curriculum info: Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Shape Keywords: 2-dimensional shapes Description of task: Students write down the names of the 2-dimensional shapes that a Geo Bird is constructed from. Learning Progression FrameworksThis resource can provide evidence of learning associated with Geometric thinking, sets 3-4 within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks. Answers/responses: Y6 (11/2001) Pupil – Circle Eye – Semicircle (half circle) Head – Pentagon Beak – Triangle Body – Octagon Wing – Parallelogram (accept quadrilateral) Leg – Rectangle (accept quadrilateral) Foot – Oval (ellipse) very easy easy moderate very easy moderate very difficult very easy very easy Diagnostic and formative information: Common error a) Wing - 58% of students answered rectangle/oblong. Body - 47% of students answered hexagon. Finding rectangles and triangles Triangle or not? What Shape am I? Square or not? Rectangle or not?
This task is about identifying 2-D shapes. The Geo Bird has a body that is made of different shapes. Write down the shape name of each body part labelled below.
