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SketchUp Geometry Use these fun geometry projects (PDF
format) to challenge your students! Comments or suggestions for future projects? Please email 3DVinci's Bonnie Roskes.
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Conic Sections January 2010 by Bonnie Roskes
In this project, you'll build a cone, then use SketchUp's Section
Plane tool to create four different conic curves: circle, ellipse, hyperbola,
and parabola. More advanced students can also check their results based on equations of the
curves.
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Building Perspectives: Logical Thinking December 2009 by Bonnie Roskes For this interesting project, all you need is SketchUp and a projector. The idea is to start with a grid of "buildings" and show your students only specific views of them (front, left, right, or back). Students make observations about which buildings are in front of or behind other buildings, and figure out which buildings have which height.
This is a great project for students in middle school and higher. Older students can try it out with larger and larger grids. |
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Symmetry and Fall Leaves November 2009 by Bonnie Roskes In this
project, you'll start
with a digital photo of a leaf, and trace around half of it
in SketchUp. You'll use mirror symmetry to see how close the leaf is to
truly symmetric. More advanced students can also use rotational symmetry to make a
wreath.
Students in middle school and high school can do this project on their own, and younger students will enjoy watching a teacher demonstrate it. Not only is this a great math project, the concepts are also valuable for students in art and biology classes. |
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Escher Square Tiles October 2009 by Bonnie Roskes and Jon Choate In this
project, you'll start with a square, and use simple tools like Line and
Move to transfom the square into an Escher tile, decorated using your
own creativity. You'll also see how to create tiles from rectangles and
rhombii.
Recommended for Grade 3 and up, this project will appeal not only to geometry students, but also to students interested in art or graphic design. |
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September 2009 by Bonnie Roskes and Jon Choate In
this project, you'll create a cube by assembling smaller cubes, then paint
the outside faces of each small cube. For a 2 x 2 x 2 cube, how
many cubes will have three faces painted? Two faces? One face? Zero faces?
What happens when you build larger cubes: 3 x 3 x 3, Recommended for Grade 8 and up, this project will get students to think and visualize objects in 3D, and will help them find patterns in tables of numbers. |
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