Draw 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.

Students sit on the carpet then move to their desks.
Students should have experience playing with interlocking cubes.
This is an extension of the “Build a structure from three different views” lesson.

Review with students how interlocking cubes can make different shapes.
Facilitate a discussion to prompt students to think about how to transform a 2D drawing into a 3D structure.
Construct an interlocking cube structure. This structure can be made from four cubes to 20 cubes. It can be any shape and have different colours.
Place the interlocking-cube structure on a fixed surface.
Provide students with small grid paper and coloured pencils.
Ask students to use the grid paper to make three drawings that represent the different views (i.e. top view, front view, side view).
Ask students to compare their top views, side views and front views of the structure.
Ask students to exchange drawings and verify them by discussing the different views.

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

Use interlocking cubes to transform a 2D drawing into a 3D structure from three different viewpoints.

In this lesson, students will use spatial thinking to draw an image from memory.