Classifying 3d Shapes

Cylinders look like soda cans

They're the shape of pots and pans

They have two circular bases

That are congruent and parallel faces

You see cones in construction zones

Or when you're eating ice cream cones

All points of their circular base meet at

The same point like a party hat

These are all three-dimensional shapes

They all have a base and take up space

These are all three-dimensional shapes

The three dimensions are height, width, and length

Pyramids are what the ancient Egyptians made

The Mayans and the Aztecs did the same

They're made with a polygon at the base

And triangular faces that meet in one place

Some prisms are rectangular like a room

Some prisms are triangular like a roof

Polygons with edges joining at the vertices

Make a prism, as you can see

These are all three-dimensional shapes

They all have a base and take up space

These are all three-dimensional shapes

The three dimensions are height, width, and length

There's one special three-dimensional shape

They're called spheres like the planets in outer space

On spheres, there's no base to be found

Because every sphere is perfectly round