Exploring Shapes, Space, and Patterns

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Objective

I can identify and describe different shapes, spaces, and patterns.

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Warm-up video

Numberock · 4:23

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    Tennis balls, basketballs, and planets are all examples of spheres.

  2. 2

    Soup cans, pens, and toilet paper rolls are all examples of cylinders.

  3. 3

    Dice are cubes, and all the faces of a cube are squares.

Part 3 of 4

Practice

8 questions

1

Which of the following objects is a sphere?

2

Name two places where you can find a cylinder.

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Exit ticket

Quick comprehension check

Name one real-world object for each of these shapes: sphere, cylinder, pyramid, cube, and cone.

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