Drawing block towers

Drawing block towers

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
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This task is about making and drawing different views of 3-D models.
a)
Make the block tower shown below. 
Show it to your teacher.
 
On the grid paper below draw 3 views of your block tower – from the top, from the front, and from the side.
 
 
i)  Looking from the top.
ii)  Looking from the front.
 
 
iii)  Looking from the side.
 
 
b)
Make the block tower shown below. 
Show it to your teacher.
 
On the grid paper below draw 3 views of your block tower – from the top, from the front and from the side.
 
  i)  Looking from the top.

   ii)  Looking from the front.

 
  iii)  Looking from the side.
Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
 
Equipment 
Block tower model, grid of views of block tower model photocopied onto OHT, 10 × Multilink cubes for each student.
  • Check construction of students' towers before allowing them to draw views on grid paper.
  • This item assesses the ability to draw a 3-dimensional shape from different viewpoints, it does not assess construction of a 3-dimensional object.
  • Show the students the block tower drawn below and name the views.
Now show the students the three views of the block tower on an OHT.
  1. Looking from the top.
  2. Looking from the front.
  3. Looking from the side.
Levels:
2, 3
Curriculum info: 
Maths, Geometry and Measurement, Shape
Keywords: 
3-dimensional shapes, views, model construction, drawing
Description of task: 
For this practical task, students construct 2 different towers from multi-link blocks, then draw these shapes from 3 different views.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Geometric thinking, set 3
Geometric thinking, sets 3-4
within the Mathematics Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
a)

 

 i)
 
 
 
 
ii)
 
 
 
 
iii)		 Top

Front

Side
b)

i)
 
 
 
 
ii)
 
  
 

iii)
 

Top

Front

Side

NOTE: The position of the drawn view on the grid paper may differ from those shown above. However, the orientation must be the same as what is shown for marks to be awarded.