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Sensational shape hunt
In small groups, students are taken on a shape hunt where they observe, describe and sort the different shapes they see in their environment.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation
- Purpose
- Teaching resource Teaching strategies
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Downloadable resource
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9MFSP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding geometric properties (P1)
- Publisher
- Queensland University of Technology
- Copyright
- © Queensland University of Technology. Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Keywords
- two-dimensional three-dimensional
- Other terms
- YuMi Deadly
- File type
- File size
- 0.4 MB
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