Grade 2 Mathematics (Shape and Space)

Students are introduced to the concepts of shape and space as they look at pictures and read the text in the student zone. Once they have had the opportunity to consider the shape, size, and space that the building takes, the students proceed to the activities presented by the teacher.

The Student Zone pages include examples of buildings for the students to look at. The activity for this Edukit is included on the Student Zone.

Making Your Own Building

On this web page, the students are shown pictures with different examples of buildings they can construct. In constructing their own buildings, they can explore the shape and size of buildings. As the class completes the buildings, the students can make a community by placing the buildings together on a table covered with paper. They can draw roads and streets and invent their own parks.

The web page for the Student Zone is as follows:

Now that you have looked at buildings, their shape, the space they take, and what they look like when they form a community, you make your own. Gather the materials you will need to make your own building.

You may start with construction paper, scissors, glue stick, tape, and a box or a milk carton. There are many other things you can use to make your building.

When you have the things you need for making a building they may look like this.

Take the buildings you have made and place them with those made by your classmates. Add streets and benches if you like. Create your own community.

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