Learn the Names of All 2D and 3D Geometric Shapes for Kids
An educational math video that will help your child to learn all the 2D and 3D shapes and their properties. Teach your child the 2D and 3D shape names, learn the mathematical vocabulary and understand the different properties. A great video which will support homeschooling, help with homework and allow your child to understand and explore shapes.
This video is suitable for a range of ages from Preschool, Kindergarten and Foundation Stage to KS1, Junior school and KS2.
There are different shapes for children out there and there are different names for them - some might even look exactly the same with some slight differences between them, such as the sphere and the circle for example - and kids should know more about these different 2D and 3D shapes which they might come across during their lifetime.
There is the square, the rectangle, the circle, the triangle, the hexagon, the pentagon, the octagon, the oval, the rhombus, and the trapezium. Every single one of these carry different properties than the other and that is why one will always be different than the other in one way or another (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ea_xGBiw1o).
2D shapes (two dimensional shapes) and 3D shapes (three dimensional shapes) are actually different from one another and that is another thing that kids should know about; they should be able to differentiate between the two different types of shapes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8elrAoIYlE).
One of the tricky things that parents should teach to their kids when it comes to the shapes is counting the sides and the corners. A circle has one side and no corners, a rectangle has four sides and four corners, an oval has one side and zero corners, a triangle has three sides and three corners, a hexagon has five sides and five corners, a pentagon has six sides and six corners, and a square has four sides and four corners. These are important differences that let the kids understand the sides and the corners and know how to count them.
Telling the kids more about these shapes and the properties that every single one of them might carry could happen in so many different ways and one of them which we believe is one of the most fun, interesting and attracting for the kids is actually the videos and the storytelling method which gets the kids more focused and tell them more in a story manner.
Mixing the lessons is another idea that parents homeschooling their kids could follow and depend on and this is actually one of the ways that would let the kids receive different information through the same lesson or the same method. One of these which we are talking about is the idea of teaching the kids more about the different shapes while at the same time giving them the chance to learn the colors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4BD3Rv17lo).
One other thing related to the shapes and understanding them is letting the kids know more about the 3D shape nets and getting to know more about them, you could depend on this video which we have on our channel and teach their kids more about the shapes, their names and know what the shape nets are (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwDjm6Ra1W4).
It is interesting to let the kids watch a video in order to learn the shapes, give them the chance to know about the names of the shapes and differentiate between them through the wooden or plastic toys which they will be asked to pass them through their right holes and so on, and they could also learn about the shapes through naming the real objects which they might be passing by them on a daily basis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9nMr4P843o).
Always choose the right methods which your kids are going to find them interesting and thus will turn out to be effective in the way they will learn more about the shapes, their sides, their corners and will manage to recall them when they are finished and when you try to show them any of these shapes and ask about its name.
Enjoy watching this video along with your kids and tell us about how effective it turned out to be with them; did they enjoy it? Did they learn anything at the end? Could they recall the shapes?
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