Geometry and Architecture
This material is suitable for children of any school age.
The lesson is planned as project work.
A student with low vision should sit at the first desk of the middle row. It is better to attach a magnifying glass above the desk so that the child can perform and see the main points of practical work. If the classroom lighting is insufficient, a lamp can be turned on. It is necessary to create a comfortable environment for carrying out project work.
The teacher’s task when working with a student with low vision is to preserve residual vision. Another task of the teacher in a geometry lesson is to provide knowledge to students with low vision alongside sighted children. Spatial representations are formed and developed in geometry lessons. A student with low vision works together with the class and should be involved in the general course of the lesson.
In this project work, we will combine architecture and geometry. Let’s try to construct houses of unusual shapes.
Question: What is geometry? What does geometry study?
Answer: In Greek, “geo” means earth, and “metreo” means to measure. Geometry translates to land measurement. Geometry is the science that deals with the study of geometric bodies.
Question: What is a polyhedron?
Answer: A polyhedron is a body with three or more dimensions, consisting of a finite number of flat polygons. We have studied cubes, parallelepipeds, pyramids, and prisms.
Question: What are round bodies?
Answer: Bodies resulting from the rotation of a flat figure around a straight line that belonged to that figure.
Question: Can we say that a city is a world of geometry, a world of geometric bodies? Answer: Architectural buildings are mostly rectangular parallelepipeds, prisms, and sometimes pyramids are encountered. The entrance to the Louvre Museum is made in the form of a pyramid. The library in Nice is shaped like a cube.
In the lesson on nets, we will cut out and glue various polyhedra. Cube, parallelepiped, triangular prism, cylinder. The most complex net is that of a dodecahedron.
Question: What is a dodecahedron?
Answer: A regular polyhedron composed of equilateral pentagons. It is one of the Platonic solids.
Figure 1. Net of a dodecahedron.
The students in the class work in groups. Each group constructs its architectural masterpiece. As a result of the work, the children created house projects.
Figure 2. Multi-family house “Lizard”.
A playground is laid out near the house. All models are made either in the form of polyhedra or round bodies.
Figure 3. Winter Garden.
The garden can be designed in the shape of a pyramid.
Conclusion of practical work
Mastering geometric material cannot be productive if only listening to an explanation. Each student must learn to construct and work with handout materials. Then the student with low vision will understand that there is a connection between the drawing and the surrounding life. It will be easier for them to navigate tasks.