Wikijunior talk:Shapes

The following need to have the real life shapes: I will strike ones out as they get the pictures. Empire3131 (talk) 07:50, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Basic Shapes/Oval
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Polygons/Hexagon
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Polygons/Heptagon
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Polygons/Decagon
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Triangles/Right Triangles
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Triangles/Obtuse Triangles
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Triangles/Acute Triangles
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Triangles/Isosceles Triangles
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Triangles/Equilateral Triangles
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Triangles/Scalene Triangles
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Quadrilaterals/Parallelogram
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Quadrilaterals/Rhombus
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Quadrilaterals/Trapezoid
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/Quadrilaterals/Kite
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/3-D Shapes/Cylinder
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/3-D Shapes/4-sided Pyramid
 * Wikijunior:Shapes/3-D Shapes/Prism
 * just the triangles now. Empire3131 (talk) 08:24, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Done with Pictures!Empire3131 (talk) 20:03, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Purpose?
Who is this book for? By the time a kid is able to read words like 'Rectangle' and 'Triangle', they already know what a rectangle and triangle are, so what is the point? Meanwhile, where is the motivation for advanced terms like isosceles and scalene? Unless you follow these up with exercises like 'spot the isosceles triangle' it's going to be forgotten almost as soon as it is first seen. It's not like they are everyday words.

I see two ways to go with this book:
 * Make this a book for early readers, who already have some idea what a circle and rectangle are. So a book with more new illustrations for it, have pages with find the rectangles, find the circles, match the word to the shape.
 * Inspire kids around shapes by showing more about what you can do with them. In other words, a more advanced book, but still wikijunior.  Show tessellations, drawn and in real life.  Show how you can fold-up flat shapes to make 3D shapes.  Show how a map is pasted onto a sphere.  Show how two shapes can be the same or different when one is a mirror reflection of the other.. and in 3D....  This takes a lot of new artwork.

--JamesCrook (talk) 13:51, 27 December 2010 (UTC)


 * Good points, especially regarding what 2D shapes mean in terms of 3D ones. Regarding the vocab, unfortunately kids are expected to be familiar with certain words at certain stages of their development (at least in Britain). Having them hear the terms used early on should facilitate their later language acquisition. (Note that I don't know the origins of this book and have only very recently become aware of its existence.)--Trevj (discuss • contribs) 09:22, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

printable version

 * Can someone provide a single-page printable version of the Wikibook? Nicole Sharp (discuss • contribs) 00:37, 30 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Never mind, I got it: .  Nicole Sharp (discuss • contribs) 01:22, 30 May 2017 (UTC)