Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4.6 Sphere shapes
Level
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Language focus
Chant, vocabulary: spherical objects
Skills focus
Speaking
Thinking focus
Recalling and sequencing
Teaching approach
Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction
Small group work, suitable for large classes
Preparation
For this activity, you will need to bring a spherical object, e.g.
a ball, to class.
The world around us
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Procedure
1 Hold up the ball and tell the class that it is the shape of a sphere. Write the
word Sphere on the board. Say the word Sphere and ask the class to say
the word after you.
2 Tell them that our world is also a sphere.
3 In small groups, get the children to write any other objects they know of
that are in the shape of a sphere.
4 Ask the groups to share their answers and write the words on the board.
See Box 75 for some suggestions.
5 Then ask the groups to sequence the spheres from the largest to the
smallest.