Build a Structure from 3 Different Views

Curriculum Goal

Compare two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures and sort them by their geometric properties.
Compose and decompose two-dimensional shapes and three-dimensional figures.

Identify and classify two-dimensional shapes by side and angle properties, and compare and sort three-dimensional figures.
Sketch three-dimensional figures, and construct three-dimensional figures from drawings.

Children will do this activity on the carpet initially and then individually either at their desks or on the carpet.
Children should have experience playing with interlocking cubes.

Facilitate a discussion to prompt students to think about how to transform a 2-D drawing into a 3-D structure.
Provide students with interlocking cubes (about 20) and the Three Views Picture.
Ask students to imagine if they were a bird flying over and round a building. How would they describe the structure and its different views?
Then, ask students to look at Three Views Picture
Ask students to make a building that has the same top view, front view, and side view as Three Views Picture
Encourage students to compare their structures with each other to verify that their structures match the examples in Three Views Picture

What directional or positional language does the child use? (e.g. over, under, left, right)
Do they use the proper names of 2-D and 3-D shapes?
Can they articulate how they interpreted the 2-D pictures and applied that to the 3-D structures?