2D Pop-Up Fairground

**Key Elements and Scene Summary**

Young learners participate in small interactive games which strengthen their understanding of 2D shape in this pop-up book fairground. These games focus on squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles. Animated elements in the scene prompt questions about shape properties, (‘Why is that shape [parallelogram] in the wrong queue?’) or invoke skills of visualisation to determine the outcome of a big board-style disc drop game. Learners should emerge from the scene with deeper spatial reasoning skills.

# Learning Objectives

Recognise and name 2D shapes, understanding the key differences{.info}

Appreciate that shapes may occur in different sizes and orientations{.info}

Build ideas of spatial relationships and improve visualisation skills {.info}

# Hook-A-Shape{.objective .objective1}

- Introduces learners to 2D shapes, with movable coloured floats. The activity can lead to discussion about whether a shape could be identified from just one feature seen above the water.
- Learners receive a poem about identifying shapes, to summarise ideas and introduce key mathematical vocabulary, e.g. ‘corners’, ‘wide’, ‘equal’.

# Funhouse{.objective .objective2}

- Involves a winding pathway where students follow the correct shapes to reach the trophy.
- Learners encounter bright, colourful shapes in myriad forms, enabling them to see the many and varied ways in which 2D shapes may interact to create patterns.

# Shape Mosaic{.objective .objective3}

- This section surrounds ideas of shape composition and decomposition, based around the Chinese tangram puzzle. Students deduce that the goal of the activity is to piece together surrounding shapes inside the silhouette, forming pictures of animals, a tree, and a house.

# Teacher Resources

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