TO DISCOVER THE SOLID FIGURES THROUGH THE SENSES

 

ESCOLA SADAKO
BARCELONA

Age: 7 Years old

Aims:

· To discover the geometrical solids, the shapes they have through the senses of touch and sight, their shadow and discover their elements.
· To recognize the geometrical solids through the different senses: sense of touch, their shape-print and also their shadow.
· To name the geometrical solids and identify them in the environment.


Materials:

· Plasticine, clay, POLYDRON, a torch and a white cloth and geometrical solids.

Vocabulary:

· Cube, prism, pyramid, sphere, cone, cylinder
· Edge, vertex, face

Procedure:

· Observation of different shaped objects that children bring from their homes.
· Classification of solids depending on their shape, whether they roll or not,...
· Construction of solids with plasticine.
· Construction of solids with POLYDRON.

· Reproduction of different geometrical shapes on a paper.
· Print the faces of a solid on clay or plasticine.
· Print the painted faces of six types doing “Chinese Shadows” on the paper.
· Artistic composition using solids.
· To take the solids made of cardboard to pieces cutting through the edges.
· Discovery of solids through the senses of touch: touching with the hand the solids that are in a bag and extracting those the teacher mentions.

It is important that the children discuss, explain and name the solids. It would be of great use to hang the names of the solid figures in big letters on the wall.