Shapes Around Us: Class 4 Maths · Chapter 1

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Printable worksheet: Shapes Around Us

10 exercises (matching, missing numbers, circling, drawing) to print on A4 in black and white, with the answer key on the last page. Do them after the lesson.

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Every scene's words in order, as Tara reads them after Start: for reading along, or for a child who cannot hear the narration.

Our model village
Class 4 is building a model village for the school fair.
They are using boxes, tins, balls and straws.
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Every model is made of shapes!
Shapes we can hold
A dice is a cube. A matchbox is a cuboid.
A tin is a cylinder, a party hat is a cone, a ball is a sphere.
Tara: These are solid shapes. You can hold them in your hand!
Name the solid
Activity: Match each thing from the model village to its shape name.
Faces, edges, corners
A face is a flat side. An edge is where two faces meet.
A corner is where edges meet.
Tara: Run your finger along the edge of a box. Can you feel it?
Corners of a cube
Activity: How many corners does a cube have?
Prisms and pyramids
A prism has the same shape at both ends, joined by rectangles.
A pyramid has triangles that meet at one point on top.
Tara: Is a cube a prism too? Let us find out!
Prism or pyramid?
Activity: Sort each solid: is it a prism or a pyramid?
Open a box flat
Open a box flat and you get its net.
Fold the net back up and the box returns!
Tara: A net is like a flat coat for a box!
Which net makes a cube?
Activity: Which net folds into a closed cube?
The dice rule
On a dice, opposite faces add up to 7.
1 is opposite 6.
Activity: Joseph rolls a 5. Which number is on the bottom face?
Cube staircases
Yash builds staircases out of cubes.
Activity: 1 step uses 1 cube. 2 steps use 3. 3 steps use 6. How many cubes for 4 steps?
When lines meet
When two lines meet at a point, they make an angle.
Our roof makes an angle at the top.
Tara: Angles hide everywhere: in roofs, doors and scissors!
The square corner
Fold a piece of paper twice to make a right angle checker.
A right angle is a square corner, like a carrom board corner.
Tara: What about angles that are smaller, or bigger?
Clock-hand angles
Smaller than a right angle is acute. Bigger is obtuse.
Activity: Look at the angle between the clock hands. Sort each clock.
Strong triangles
Push a square frame and it tilts.
A triangle frame keeps its shape!
Activity: Harpreet needs a strong frame for the model bridge. Which shape should she use?
Sides and angles
A flat shape has as many angles as it has sides.
Tara: A square is a rectangle with all 4 sides equal!
Activity: Match each shape to its number of angles.
The village well
The centre is the middle point of a circle.
Radius: centre to edge. Diameter: edge to edge, through the centre.
Tara: Every radius of a circle is the same length!
Two radius hops
The radius of the well is 4 centimetres.
Activity: A diameter is as long as two radius lengths. Make 2 hops of 4. Where do you land?
Straw model challenge
Straws make the edges. Clay balls make the corners.
Activity: Joseph has 8 straws and 5 clay balls. Which frame can he make, using all of them?
The village is ready!
Our model is full of faces, edges, corners and angles.
Now look for shapes all around you!
Tara: Super builders! See you next time.

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Ch 1: Shapes Around Us

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Chapters in Maths Mela

Chapter 1: Shapes Around Us
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Chapter 3: Pattern Around Us · Coming soon
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Chapter 7: The Cleanest Village · Coming soon
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