Year 2 Summer Term Week 6 Reasoning About Shapes And Space

Three complete PowerPoint Lessons about reasoning about shapes and space. Each of the lessons start with a fun mental warm up. This is followed by an exciting, interactive, whole class learning session. The lessons are finished with a challenging, differentiated thinking task.

Summer Term

Lesson 1: Week 6
Title Shape and Space, Reasoning about Shapes
Learning Objective:  recognise and name 3-D shapes
 make models using 3-D shapes
 recognise what makes 3-D shapes special
 relate 3-D shapes to 2-D pictures.
Mental Warm Up: Play ‘Round the table’.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to be learning about 3-D or ‘solid’ shapes.
Educational Challenges  Work in pairs.
 Build a 3-D shape from click-together shapes.
 Draw round the faces of the 3-D shape on card.
 Cut them out.
 Record how many faces there are and what shape each face is.
 Make a label with this information. Attach it to your card model.


Lesson 2: Week 6
Title Shape and Space,
Reasoning about Shapes
Learning Objective:  know more about 3-D shapes
 make models using 3-D shapes
 know what makes 3-D shapes special.
Mental Warm Up: ‘What’s my number operation?’
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to be learning more about 3-D or ‘solid’ shapes.
Educational Challenges  Work individually.
 Use straws and plasticine to make a 3-D shape.
 Make a label to explain what the shape is and how many edges and corners it has.



Lesson 3: Week 6
Title Shape and Space,
Reasoning about Shapes
Learning Objective:  recognise 3-D shapes
 make models using 3-D shapes
 know what properties make each 3-D shape special.
Mental Warm Up: I will say some sentences about right angles and 3-D shapes. Record whether they are ‘True’ of ‘False’.
Main Lesson Idea: Today we are going to learn more about 3-D or ‘solid’ shapes.
Educational Challenges  Choose a partner from one of the groups you do not normally work with.
 Make a model using 3-D shapes.
 Draw your model and record how many of each shape you used.
 Count its faces, corners and edges.