Curriculum placement

Kindergarten. This describes the skill, not a learner estimate.

Building and drawing closed shapes

Build shapes from sticks for sides and balls for corners and judge whether a drawing is a closed straight-sided shape

Problem types

  • How many sticks and clay balls
  • Which drawing is a real shape
  • What is wrong with the drawing
  • Build a shape with sticks
  • Build sides and corners
  • Copy a shape on pegs

Builds on

Leads to

  • Defining attributes of shapes · Extend the idea

    Building a shape with sticks and clay balls shows the parts that make it that shape: straight sides, corners, and an outline that closes. Shape attributes name those parts and sort shapes by them.

Related skills

Open the interactive map to explore lessons and skill connections.