Last week we had a series of whole class lessons focusing on 2D shapes, 3D objects and nets of 3D objects.  After a recap on previous knowledge, we did a little bit of origami to help us recall the properties of a 3D objects.

We can keep this in the back of our Maths jitter and pop it up when we need a reminder.

Next, we had a talk about 3D objects we find in our environment and went outside with our iPads to find some evidence. When we returned to classroom we annotated out photos with the names of the 3D objects we found using the iPad’s photo markup function. Finally, we Airdropped our photos to the classroom board and discussed our findings.

This lead on to a discussion about nets of 3D objects and how we could build scaled models using a combination of different objects. The class were set the task of building Winterfang, the ice palace of the Ice Queen from our class novel.