Getting a Feel for Shapes

This webquest will take 6 lessons to complete. The year level that it is focussed on is Years 5 to 6.

Standards

Measurement and Geometry: Shape
Year 5-Content descriptor
Connect three-dimensional objects with their nets and other two-dimensional representations

Elaborations
• Identifying the shape and relative position of each face of a solid to determine the net of the solid, including that of prisms and pyramids
• Representing two-dimensional shapes such as photographs, sketches and images created by digital technologies

Year 6-Content descriptor
Construct simple prisms and pyramids
Elaborations
• Considering the history and significance of pyramids from a range of cultural perspectives including those structures found in China, Korea and Indonesia
• Constructing prisms and pyramids from nets, and skeletal models

Credits

As this is a university assignment I understand copyright laws and have used images and websites for the lecturer's eyes. I would like to give credit for the webistes I have used.
http://www.mathsisfun.com
http://www.youtube.com
http://firstschoolyears.com
http://www.harcourtschool.com
http://famouswonders.com
http://www.pxleyes.com
http://www.nationsonline.org