Geometric shapes

After this understanding work, offer the students a second viewing with a task to carry out: locate and name the geometric shapes in the video.

Figures: circles or discs (top of the birthday cake, clock, moon, sewing machine wheel, the knobs on the cooker), five or six-pointed stars, diamond (on the door, on the wall in the kitchen area), triangles (pennants), rectangles (calendar, paintings, building windows, workshop gate)...

Solids: cones (party hats), paving stones (cardboards in dad's workshop, books, steps of the staircase), spheres (lanterns in front of the workshop gate, the planets, the earth, astronaut helmet), hemisphere (light fitting), cylinders (the cake, the university building)...

Depending on the skills we want to work on, we will focus on plane figures, or solids, or both (with a sorting activity). In the same way, we can ask students to list and name the shapes in the classroom. If possible, offer them manipulative materials so that it is more concrete for them. The shapes thus studied can be reproduced in a visual art project: representing a spatial universe.

We can offer students:

• draw shapes in their picture using a ruler, a set square and a pair of compasses for the plane figures (a circle drawn with compasses for the planets, a rectangle then a triangle with the ruler and the square for the rocket, etc.)
• make a 3D piece if you want to work on solids, which is a chance to work with nets.