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Maths 6 Learning Objects: Building site and Contours
- Client
- The Le@rning Federation
- Project launched
- May 13th, 2007
- Concepts
- 3D, Accessibility, Primary Learners, Secondary Learners, Web Optimisation
- Technologies
- Flash, 3D, XML
- View project
These objects were originally developed in Shockwave. The Le@rning Federation contracted Millipede to redevelop these objects in Flash, overhaul the design and ensure adherence to rigourous technical specifications and accessiblity requirements.
Building site
Students translate between 2D representations and 3D objects by positioning objects to make 3D models from plans and projections.
Students use visualisation skills to imagine different perspectives for viewing the same objects and realise that the perceived shape of objects depends on the observer’s viewing point.
Students gather information about the shape of objects by viewing them from different angles then use that information to construct a three-dimensional scene.
We gave the object a construction site setting and introduced two construction workers (male and female) to act as mentors, along with a complete redesign of the original layout and user interface.
This object was built using the Sandy3D engine for Flash, which was a little cumbersome in its early stage of development, and this proved quite a challenge to implement whilst conforming to TLF’s strict guidelines for accessibility and loadtimes.
Nevertheless, we were able to extract what we needed from the engine and delivered an engaging and successful learning object.
Contours
Similar to Building site, students translate between 2D representations and 3D objects by positioning objects to make 3D models from plans and projections. This learning object illustrates how contour lines represent the shape of landforms and geometrical solids. Students construct a landscape of geometrical objects to match a contour map.
Students look at how contour lines are used on maps to represent the shape of landforms and compare side and top views of geometrical objects such as a cone and a hemisphere. After examining contour lines on a map, students place geometrical objects on a 3D landscape to match the map.
These learning object series were developed for Mathematics students, year level: 4 – 9.