The main idea/teaching focus this resource can be used for is to provide children with an interesting context for describing and identifying attributes of shapes.
They can conduct real-life investigations, researching questions such as "What do the shapes look like from differnt perspectives?" "Which shapes can roll?" "Which shapes can slide?" "What constitute a shape?"
This video can be watched a few times. The first time you may watch it the whole way through and discuss specific bits that stood out to the students. The second time, you may like to watch a small segment and conduct an investigation (with a bucket of the shapes) before watching the second part.
Disclaimers:
Please take note to mention that the 2D shapes shown in these images are not actually 2D because they have a thickness.
Also with younger children do not worry about naming shapes so much - you may like to call the shapes by their first names or just pick a shape out of a pile to talk about it. Even a simple activity such as getting the young childrern to identify "Which shape is Shaphia?" out of a pile of unpainted geometric shapes could be a good learning experience to get children to identify and describe attributes. "Why do you think she would be that shape?"
If I were to produce it again, I would probably do it on an animation program so that the shapes move as they talk, and I will try to write a story that is not as corny as this one. I would probably think twice about the bit about fat shapes and flat shapes too as it does contribute to the misconception concerning 2D shapes.
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