Solid Geometry
Wooden Ice Cream Cone
This week I scored with a set of wooden geometric solids (12 shapes for 30rmb!)
O jumped right in making "ice cream cone's" & "bird houses", which is a great intro to understanding shapes and how they relate to our every day lives.
I, on the other hand, had to look up a lesson in geometry. It's been a while!
I learned a few new things!
First, most of the names are not too intimidating, not as intimidating as I remember (my memory links geometric shapes and dinosaur names as the same level of difficulty!)
Cone
Cube
Cylinder 1
Cylinder 2
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Pyramid
Sphere
The second group (level two intensity!) could be catagorized in the 'prisms'. As long as you know your shapes, the prisms are a cinch.
Rectangular Prism
Triangular Prism
Square Prism
Hexagonal Prism
Octagonal Prism
A half-sphere, is called a Hemisphere!
Geometry and geography lesson in one!
Hemisphere
An easy early intro to geometry (along with making houses & ice cream cones) is finding the similarities amoung the solids. This involves looking at various sides of the objects, in order to make matches.
Circular-based
Square-based
Square-based
Circular-based
Cicular-based
There are loads of activities to connect geometric shapes into a lesson, or expanding uses for geometry.
EXPAND ON GEOMETRY
Origami. Mini Eco consistently has lovely origami tutorials. Many of which illustrate instructions on geometric shapes. This is a great way to see how flat shapes turn can be transform into 3D. http://www.minieco.co.uk/paper-gems/
Expand and use these as ornaments or gift toppers.
Necklaces. Mini Eco again. They have taken coloured pencils, cut them into pieces, drilled a hole through the center and threaded! CUTE lesson on circular prisms!
Still Life. The first thing I thought of while photographing the shapes, was our Art Class study on drawing still life. We always warmed up with sketches of geometric shapes, as they have lines, curves and shadows that are easily recognizable. You can start by making your own origami prisms (above.) Remember to add different mediums to this art activity, including charcoal (old school or charcoal pencils.) Great lesson in shape, perspective, form & shadow.
Bird Houses. One quick search on Pinterest brings you a load of bird house geometry lessons.
Gingerbread Geometry. That quick bird house search, led to Bird House Gingerbread. Gingerbread homes also an easy (yummy) lesson in geometry.