Quest 6 | Architecture & Design
Objective
Write code that draws a skyscraper of your design, and then scales it up and down in size while maintaining the original blueprint’s proportions.
Goals
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Gain experience and comfort with lists/arrays, loops and nested loops, if/else conditional statements, and user input.
GEOMETRY
Apply prior knowledge of plotting points and the distance formula to scale factor and the study of geometric proportionality.
Standards
GEOMETRY
CCSSM
G.SRT.1, G.SRT.2, G. SRT.3, G.SRT.4, G.SRT. 5, G.MG.3, G.CO.2, G.C. 1
COMPUTER SCIENCE
CSTA
2-AP-16, 3A-IC-26, 3A- DA-12
Hyperlinked Materials
STUDENT-FACING
Slides (PDF)
Part 1 Starter Code (Snap! link)
Part 2 Starter Code (Snap! link)
Part 3 Starter Code (Snap! link)
FACILITATOR RESOURCES
Part 1 Solution Code Example (Snap! link)
Part 1 GeoGebra Solution Example (GeoGebra link)
Part 2 Solution Code (Snap! link)
Part 3 Solution Code (Snap! link)