Unit 7, Lesson 12
Build Solid Shapes
Kindergarten
Preparation
Lesson Narrative
In previous lessons, students created solid shapes out of clay and described, compared, and sorted shapes. In the Warm-up, students notice similarities between rectangular prisms and develop their own name for rectangular prisms. The word "box" will be used as the example in this lesson. Students create solid shapes from connecting cubes and sticks and clay.
- Representation
- MLR7
- Represent rectangular prisms with connecting cubes.
- Represent solid shapes with sticks and clay.
- Let’s create solid shapes.
Required Materials
Activity 1
Activity 2
Activity 3
Required Preparation
- Gather and sort solid shapes into 2 groups to display: 4 rectangular prisms, including a cube, in one group, and 4 other solid shapes in another group.
- Gather a variety of rectangular prisms, including cubes, to display.
- Use connecting cubes to create a shape that is not a rectangular prism during the Activity Synthesis, similar to this image:
- Each group of 2 students needs a variety of solid shapes and at least 12 sticks in 2 different lengths.
- Gather materials from:
- Build Shapes, Stages 1–3
- Geoblocks, Stages 1–4
- Counting Collections, Stage 1
- Match Mine, Stage 1
- Shake and Spill, Stages 1–4
Suggested Centers
NoneTeacher Reflection Questions
What did students notice about rectangular prisms in the Warm-up? What new things did students notice about rectangular prisms as they built them in the first activity?