3D Shapes Booklet

Explore six three-dimensional shapes in a small booklet. Students record names and properties, including faces, edges, and vertices, and connect the shapes with real-world examples.
Grades
Grades 1–2
Pages
116
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated May 16, 2024

Subject
Math, Geometry
Topic
3D shapes, Faces edges vertices
Answer key
Included
Standards
2.G.A.1

Product description

From the author

Introduce six main 3D shapes with naming, vocabulary, real-world matching and cut-and-glue booklet pages. Attribute tables also include a triangular prism.

Two overlapping PDFs contain 50 and 66 pages. Choose the pages you need, using a color or black-and-white cover and the printing directions. Answer sections provide completed examples, although some repeated spaces in the 66-page version remain blank. Have scissors and glue ready for the matching task.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Name six 3D shapes — cylinder, cube, sphere, pyramid, cone and rectangular prism — from labeled diagrams and descriptive clues.

  • Count and record the number of faces, edges and vertices for each of the six 3D shapes.

  • Determine whether a shape has a line of symmetry by drawing the line and completing a symmetry sentence.

Teaching tips

  • Print the booklet pages two-sided to save paper, but print the final two shape-cutout pages single-sided since those pieces are cut out and glued elsewhere (page 2).

  • Have scissors and glue ready before starting the matching page, since students cut individual 3D shape images and glue them beside the matching name (pages 11-12, 46).

  • Choose one PDF version, then use its completed examples to check names and attributes. Some repeated spaces in the 66-page answer section remain blank.

Skills covered

  • 3D shape identification — students name cylinder, cube, sphere, pyramid, cone and rectangular prism from diagrams and from lists of clues such as "6 square faces, 8 vertices, 12 edges" (pages 59-64).

  • Attribute counting — students record the number of flat and curved faces, edges and vertices for each solid in a shapes attributes table (pages 35, 65-66).

  • Cut-and-paste matching — students cut out individual shape images and glue each one beside its correct printed name (pages 11-12, 46).

Good to know

Questions teachers ask about this resource

How should the shape-cutout pages be printed and prepared?

Most booklet pages can print two-sided, but the final two pages holding the individual shape cutouts should print single-sided, since those pieces are cut out and glued onto the matching page.

What does the shapes attributes table ask students to record?

The tables ask for flat and curved faces, edges and vertices for seven solids, including a triangular prism. Completed table examples are supplied; repeated lower copies in the 66-page answer section remain blank.

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Curriculum

Standards, concepts & topics

Standards

  • 2.G.A.1

Core concepts

  • 3D shapes

  • Faces, edges and vertices

  • Geometric vocabulary

  • Line symmetry

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