A worksheet for children to record their findings while exploring 3D shapes according to a given criterion. They will need to build a slope and use 3D shape manipulatives to explore the properties.

Year 2 Identifying properties of 3D shapes To be printed and laminated so that whiteboard pens can be used to scribe. Could be used as play dough mats or challenge children to use playdough and cocktail sticks / straws or even nets of shapes to make them. You could also use them alongside 3D shape manipulatives. 7 shape mats included ( cone, cube, cuboid, sphere, square based pyramid, triangular prism and cylinder). Vocab - vertices, edges and faces as well as shape names mentioned above.