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Block Beasties - Task Cards

PDF | 12 pages | Years: F - 3

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.

Curriculum

ACMMG009

Sort, describe and name familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects in the environment
ACMMG022

Recognise and classify familiar two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional objects using obvious features
ACMMG043

Describe the features of three-dimensional objects
ACMMG063

Make models of three-dimensional objects and describe key features

Author

Royce (Teach Starter)

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Rebecca Blackman · 3 years ago

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!
- Royce (Teach Starter) · 3 years ago
  
  Hi Rebecca, thank you for your positive feedback and loving our Block Beastie task cards. I hope your class has fun with these.

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