Activity 1 Be An
Engineer (packaging, architectural)
Nets – students cut apart cereal box and trace net
Explore nets – how will these 2-d shapes fit to make 3-d
Look at net of isosceles triangular prism vocab – faces, edges, vertices
Can be done on sketchpad
Create net of right triangle prism
Pythagorean theorem
Assessment:
Design and build a net to contain a water bottle (very special water)
Include triangular, rectangular prisms, cylindrical, pyramidal etc
Look at pictures of real buildings
Identify 3-d shapes
End with Sears tower, build Sears towers with blocks????
Learn to sketch Sears tower (or draw one simplier)
(Building Perspective) on isometric dot paper
one block, two blocks, build from code
(Sue may have)
Look at buildings again
Look at one and two point perspective (overlay lines)
Can be powerpoint or overheads
Look at art examples –
Assessment
Create with paper and pencil name with one and two point perspective
Which pattern blocks fit around a point with no gaps and no overlaps?
Explore with 1 color, two color etc, make a table
Analyze the angles in pattern blocks
Which regular polygons tessellate (depends on Algebra group)
Will any quadrilateral tessellate and why (index cards, scissors, trace discuss)
Study and analyze completed tessellations for rigid transformations
(get or make quilts, Escher like same shape tessellations)
( non traditional, growing shrinking), Islamic art
Design of basic shape determines the type of tessellation
Assessment: Make a tessellation: narrative on how it was made, what kind of tessellation
Step by step script? With illustrations
Quadrilaterals
Explore decimals for all of 7ths look for a pattern using calculator
Explore decimals for other fractions, looking for a pattern
Using grid paper, demonstrate block division (division using blocks of digits)
Assign fractions to groups do be done by block division
With compass and protractor, create circle with 10 equally spaced marks for the digits (Sketchpad)
Connect digits in order of repetend with straight line segments until back to beginning digit.
Handout on 4 color map problem from Student Math Notes
Color the circle design according to the rules for the map problem [Examples]