Teaching Resource
Block Beasties – Task Cards
A set of 36 low colour block figure task cards separated into three levels.
Use this teaching resource when exploring 3D geometric shapes and their properties with the students in numeracy. This resource includes three difficulty levels for the construction of building block figures:
- Colour animal shapes with block boundaries
- Animal shape blocks in white with boundary outlines
- Animal shape blocks only showing faces.
Students will love to construct and explore these animal block figures. Challenge them to see if they can create them when using the harder level task cards.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- MAe-14MG
Three-DimensionalSpace - manipulates, sorts and represents three-dimensional objects and describes them using everyday language
- MAe-15MG
Two-DimensionalSpace - manipulates, sorts and describes representations of two-dimensional shapes, including circles, triangles, squares and rectangles, using everyday language
- MA1-14MG
Three-DimensionalSpace - sorts, describes, represents and recognises familiar three-dimensional objects, including cones, cubes, cylinders, spheres and prisms
- MA1-15MG
Two-DimensionalSpace - manipulates, sorts, represents, describes and explores two-dimensional shapes, including quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and octagons
- MA2-14MG
Three-DimensionalSpace - makes, compares, sketches and names three-dimensional objects, including prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones and spheres, and describes their features
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCMMG142
Make models of three-dimensional objects and describe key features
- VCMMG081
Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment
- VCMMG098
Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious features
- VCMMG121
Describe the features of three-dimensional objects
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACMMG009
Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environmentElaborationssorting and describing squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, spheres and cubes (S...
- ACMMG022
Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious featuresElaborationsfocusing on geometric features and describing shapes and objects using everyday w...
- ACMMG063
Make models of three-dimensional objects and describe key featuresElaborationsexploring the creation of three-dimensional objects using origami, including prisms and pyramids (Skills: Numeracy, Critic...
- ACMMG043
Describe the features of three-dimensional objectsElaborationsidentifying geometric features such as the number of faces, corners or edges (Skills: Numeracy, Critical and Creative Thinking)(View this ...
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These are really cool! I love the idea of using LEGO in the classroom and have been looking for something like this for a while. Thanks!
Comment by Rebecca Blackman on December 27, 2018 at 2:58 pm
Hi Rebecca, thank you for your positive feedback and loving our Block Beastie task cards. I hope your class has fun with these.
Official comment by Royce (Teach Starter) on December 27, 2018 at 3:11 pm