Quick ViewMaths Word Search with something extra (Names of Shapes)
This is more than just finding words on a grid. The words are not given, they have to get them from the diagrams. There is a <i>moderate</i> and a '<i>difficult</i>' version so the activity is accessible to all and there are many opportunities for extension. The PowerPoint reveals the solutions one word at a time so you can stop and discuss each shape as you go. Try it and you will see what I mean☺.<br />
This has been used with classes from Year 6 to Year 11 and they have loved it and had many useful discussions.<br />
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The activity could be given as a homework as well as used in the classroom. With older students, when I go through the answers I use it as an opportunity to revise the properties of the shapes as well.<br />
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You can give students as much help as you like, but if you leave them to it…<br />
<ul><li>they have to think about the names of the shapes;</li><br />
<li>they have to think about the spelling of the names;</li><br />
<li>they have to look for names that are not represented by the diagrams.</li></ul><br />
Because the diagrams have been drawn for the students, there is the opportunity to talk about the use of little squares to indicate right-angles, the use of little lines to indicate equal length sides and the use of arrows to indicate parallel lines.<br />
Three additional 2D shapes are hidden in the grid (these are nonagon, decagon and icosagon).<br />
The 3D shapes that are hidden are cone, cube, cuboid, cylinder, pyramid, sphere & tetrahedron.<br />
The solutions to the moderate version are contained within the pdf; the PowerPoint contains the solutions to the ‘difficult’ version.<br />
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