Tuesday, April 16, 2024

 

Lesson title- Plans & Elevations

Grade – VII

Time – 1 periods ( 40 minutes)

Teaching methodology- Activity based learning

Material required:

Pencil

Ruler

Eraser

Building blocks

Graph paper or grid paper

Introduction –2-3 minutes

·      Plans & elevations are 2-d drawings of 3-d shapes.

·      3-d shapes can be viewed from different points.

·      A plan is a scale drawing when a 3-d object is looked at from the top.

·      Elevations is a scale drawing of a 3-d shape when looked at from the front or the side.

·      Example – A rectangular box and some other object would be shown from different perspectives.




Activity 1: (20 minutes)

·      From a pile of building blocks, students would be asked to choose a minimum of 7 blocks of different colors and join them into a 3 d shape.

·      Each student would be asked to view the object from the top, front and side.

·      Each student would be asked to draw the various views on the grid or the graph paper. They can also make it on a plane paper using 1cm squares.



                                            3 d object made with 11 blocks


Side view ( Side elevation)                       Side view -3d drawing



Front View(Front elevation)                        Front View – 2d drawing



        Top View(Plan view)                               Top View – 2d drawing

Summary: 5 minutes

·      Plan view is also called the Bird’s eye view is how an object would appear from directly above

·      Elevations are basically side views of the object. They can be front , side or rear view elevations

·      Scale – it is important to pre decide the relation between the size of the object and the drawing

Extension activities – Students would be given practice worksheets on more complex 3-d shapes

Assessment – This lesson is not meant for assessment purpose for marks but an informal assessment of the students understanding would be recorded based on his/her involvement in class.

 

Reference & image courtesy:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zqjhy4j/revision/10#:~:text=Plans%20and%20elevations%20are%202D,is%20looked%20at%20from%20above.


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