Lesson Plan: Positions of 3D Shapes Mathematics • Kindergarten

This lesson plan includes the objectives, prerequisites, and exclusions of the lesson teaching students how to use positional vocabulary to describe the locations of 3D shapes relative to each other.

Objectives

Students will be able to

describe the locations of 3D shapes using positional language,
use positional language to identify a 3D shape.

Prerequisites

Students should already be familiar with

3D shapes,
the terms top, middle, and bottom,
the terms above, below, beside, between, left, right, and next to,
the terms in front of and behind,
the terms over and under,
the terms inside and outside.

Exclusions

Students will not cover

giving directions,
ordinal numbers.