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Chapter 8 Geodesic Dome Project Geometry Mrs. Eckman

PART 1. The geodesic dome is a really cool application of triangles in the real world. First you will find out more about this exciting form of architecture (part 1) and then your team will construct an actual dome (part 2) in class (December 19th & 20th). You and your team will bring in the supplies to class to build this dome.

Part 1 1 2 3 4 5
The inventor of geodesic domes (at least 3 complete sentences) 10 points History of this type of dome (at least 3 complete sentences) 10 points Applications of the dome (at least 3 complete sentences) 10 points Pictures of different geodesic domes (minimum of 3 pictures) 10 points Include your source information. Print out the web page(s) used and highlight the information that you used. Number the information highlighted to match the numbers above. - 10 points

Points

Part 2 6
Construction of the dome: include the mathematics and geometry involved (at least 3 complete sentences) 20 points Total out of 70 points

How to Make a Geodesic Dome

Web site on how to make a Geodesic Dome: http://sci-toys.com/scitoys/scitoys/mathematics/dome/dome.html This next site shows how to make the dome out of paper and has a template for the triangles. http://hilaroad.com/camp/projects/dome/dome.html