Perfect Paper Pyramid: More practice with project layout.

Building on "How to Read a Ruler" and "Perfect Paper Cube"- another instructable designed to help you practice laying out projects and also introduce a few more sheet metal working processes.  If you haven't done the Perfect Paper cube yet, you may want to start there as this instructable builds on what was learned there.  Check them out here:

Reading a ruler:  http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Read-a-Ruler-and-other-simple-tricks/

Perfect Paper Cube: http://www.instructables.com/id/Perfect-Paper-Cube-Laying-out-a-project-using-pa/

Also watch for the Perfect Paper Pyramid 2, coming soon.  It will demonstrate another way to make the same pyramid using different techniques.

Content Learning Objective:

By building a Perfect Paper Pyramid, students will continue to practice and develop their ability to read a ruler and demonstrate accuracy.  Additional sheet metal procedures will also be introduced. These skills will later be demonstrated again as students make projects out of sheet metal.

Please note that even though I do this activity with 7th and 8th graders, this instructable is hard for that age group to follow without guidance.  

Step 1 Gather Supplies

This is a pretty simple project.

Supplies:

8.5x11 sheet of paper
Glue or tape (glue is stronger, tape is easier to work with)
Pencil
Eraser
Ruler
Scissors

A desk or other hard work surface generally comes in pretty handy too...

Comments

[sherrycayheyhey]

I love the alliterative title.