geometry
 : Folded Box
Approach: Station
Resources: Scissors, sheet of blue paper marked in squares, video giving instructions.

Questions / instructions:
Watch the video that tells you what to do.

The video showed students a picture of the box they were to make. The instructions, listed below, were then read out.

  % responses
y4
y8

1. Draw the shape for your box on the piece of squared paper.
You have only one piece of squared paper and only one go at making the box.

 
 

2. Cut out the shape.

 
 

3. Fold it so it looks like the picture of the box.

 
 

4. When you have finished your box, put it in an envelope and put your number sticker on the outside.

Product achieved: box of approximately right shape & proportions
39
 
box, but not of right shape & proportions
9
 
other
52
 


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