Building with Blocks Activity
Block tower activity: students estimate how tall their tower will get, roll a die and stack that many blocks until it tumbles, then record each count and their highest tower.
- Year levels
- Foundation, Pre-school (Early Years)
- File type
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Subject
- Life Skills, Special Resources
- Topic
- Have Fun Teaching
- Resource types
- Activities
- Preparation
- Print ready
- Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9MFN03 — quantify
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About this resource
This Building with Blocks Activity is great for helping students develop their fine motor skills. They roll a die to stack that number of blocks, which encourages them to keep practising.
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Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
Estimate a quantity before testing it
Count and record the number of blocks stacked
Teaching tips
Each player needs one die and a supply of building blocks, which the file does not provide
Skills covered
Fine motor control — stacking blocks carefully to keep the tower standing
Recording data — writing each stack count on the sheet
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Australian Curriculum (Version 9.0)
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
Australian Curriculum content descriptions
- AC9MFN03 — quantify and compare collections to at least 20 using counting and explain or demonstrate reasoning
Core concepts
Core concepts
Estimation
Counting
Fine motor skills
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