Investigating 3D Figures

Today students were given a very important task! Our class is in charge of labelling the bins with 3D figures for our whole school! We quickly realized that we would need to figure out the names of each of the figures and ways to identify each figure.

While working on a plan of action, students noticed a lot of interesting things about the figures. Take a look at some of their work below!

Here students were tracing the faces of the figures to find familiar shapes (e.g., triangles, rectangles, circles).

In the above picture, students were drawing the 3D figures to help recognize each one. They talked about how the sides of each shape looked different. 

Here is one of the bins our class is in charge of labelling! Students were already debating about whether or not they would sort specific figures into different bins, and if so, what the sorting rule might be (the number of points, the 2D shapes on each side, etc.).

Tomorrow we will compare our investigations and determine what we still need to find out. Today, A.K., suggested that we all work together to label the figures we do already know. That way we will figure out which figures we still need to learn about.

Way to go, Grade 1's!