Shapes and objects: Foundation – planning tool
This planning resource for Foundation is for the topic of Shapes and objects. Students learn to identify, name and sort common shapes such as circles, triangles, squares and rectangles.
- Resource details
- Year level
- Foundation
- Purpose
- Planning Teaching resource Teaching strategies Student activities
- Strand
- Space
- Topic
- Shapes and objects
- Audience
- Teachers
- Format
- Webpage
- Australian Curriculum code
- AC9MFSP01
- Numeracy progression
- Understanding units of measurement (P2)
- Publisher
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Copyright
- © 2023 Commonwealth of Australia, unless otherwise indicated. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated
- Other terms
- lesson plans assessment task teaching strategies pedagogies Australian Curriculum learning from home misconceptions
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