Student Name: Alejandra Corona

Date: 8/29/2017

Portfolio Artifact Description: Truss Bridge - Using drawing tools to create a 2-dimensional

profile of the side of one truss of the bridge.

What you learned: Drawing the Truss Bridge took me longer than expected. At first I struggled

because I was working with too many shapes. I pulled out the shapes similar to the ones in my

reference drawing to my drawing. When I attempted to align the shapes, their outlines tended to

look bolder on some areas more than others. It wasnt much of a difference, but I could tell my

lines werent symmetrical. I started over and decided to work more with lines and less with

shapes. Working with lines was still a bit of a trial and error situation, but it made a big

difference in the symmetry of my drawing. Working with lines also gave me a fundamentally

good outline to my drawing. My outline consisted of the two big diamonds on the side and three

lines which were the bottom, top, and middle lines. This outline made the rest of my shapes and

lines in between come together symmetrically.

National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)S Addressed: Standard #4

Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by

creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.

Application of Skills Learned for the Future: This project would fit perfectly into a school

curriculum. It would be a fun activity for the introduction of fundamental shapes. Students would

see how lines come together and form different shapes to form a larger object. If students were to

build 3-dimensional models instead, it would be even more beneficial. They would enhance their

spatial skills and have a better understanding of the ways lines and shapes are manipulated to

form different figures. I could see myself using this model during a math lesson plan. Many
students arent fond of math, so this would be a fun way to engage students on the subject.

Having my students draw a model of a boat would also be a creative way to cover the concepts

of learning how to manipulate drawing objects on screen.