Create a Construction Book

# 3.8

• (1-6, 10-13)

Construction Book Project

due date: February 24, 2006

NO LATE PROJECTS will be accepted.

NO EXCUSES!

Your job is to create a construction book that outlines in very specific directions how to perform the following constructions. Your instructions should be so detailed that a complete novice could follow your instructions and not have any problems doing the constructions below.

Your Construction Book must include:

1. cover page
2. table of contents
3. typed step-by-step instructions
4. one construction per side done by hand
5. may use front and backs of paper

Be creative with this.

Pick up a book that you've read and see what else you could add to your Construction Book if you were trying to sell it. Use Color! Remember that appearance is everything. That means neatness counts. You are competing with everyone else from both 1st and 3rd hours. So, the better your book is compared to others, the better your grade will be. I know we say that we shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but the truth of the matter is that we do judge a book by its cover all of the time. Your Construction Book should include the following constructions:

How to:

1. duplicate a segment
2. duplicate an angle
3. bisect a segment
4. bisect an angle
5. construct a perpendicular through a point NOT on a line
6. construct a perpendicular through a point ON a line
7. construct parallel lines using the rhombus method
8. parallel lines using the equidistant method
9. construct a 60 degree angle (equilateral triangle)
10. construct the incenter of a triangle
11. construct the circumcenter of a triangle
12. construct the orthocenter of a triangle
13. construct the centroid of a triangle
14. construct an inscribed circle of a triangle
15. construct a circumscribed circle of a triangle
16. construct the Euler Line