Polyhedra Creations

by Oak Hill 8th Graders

Teachers can find lesson plans and instructions for these projects here.

Oak Hill 8th graders completed construction of 3-d shapes as an investigation of what could be made from regular, 2-d shapes. They compounded, stellated, and truncated the 5 Platonic Solids which are shown below.

And here is what they created ...

stellated icosahedron

Andre made a stellated icosahedron. Notice that each point is a different color ... very unusual and attractive.

 

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Ben made 5 intersecting tetrahedron. You can see almost the entire green tetrahedron.

 

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5 intersecting tetrahedron

great dodecahedron

Ben made a Great Dodecahedron. Notice that we are looking at a black pentagonal face with a star shaped cookie on top. If you view this polyhedron from the left, you see a purple pentagonal face with another raised cookie.

 

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Cas built a totaly red stellated icosahedron. An icosahedron has 20 faces. So this is what you would get if you put a point on each face.

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stellated icosahedron

great dodecahedron

Catherine built a Great Dodecahedron. You can see a yellow, pentagonal face to the left and front. There is a light turquoise face on the right hand side.

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Diana also made a Great Dodecahedron. We can see her pink, yellow, and pale green pentagonal face very clearly. Beautiful.

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great dodecahedron

stellated icosahedron

Dina made a Stellated Icosahedron. You can see a pink pentagram (5 pointed star) in the background of the figure. Looking at the polyhedron from the left, you can see a red pentagram. Beautiful!

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Emily made a Stellated Icosahedron in different shades of blue. Beautiful !

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stellated icosahedron

stellated icosahedron

Erica made a stellated icosahedron. Notice that from the left view you can see a pale blue 5 pointed star. From below and to the left, you can see a purple star. From the front you can see a pink star. Neat !

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Esther also made a Great Dodecahedron. Beautiful !

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great dodecahedron

compound of octa and hexahedrons

Francesca made an octahedron (black polyhedron) pierced by a hexahedron (pink cube).

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Frank made a Truncated Icosahedron. This ball-like shape is made from pentagons and hexagons. The other name for this polyhedron is a soccer ball.

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truncated icosahedron

stellated icosahedron

Greg made a Stellated Icosahedron. He is holding it to show the green pentagram (5 pointed star) that is in the back plane. From above we can see a yellow star. and, from below, we can see a dark blue star.

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Gyu made an incredible Great Icosahedron. This figure contains 120 individual pieces to accurately cut and glue together. Awesome!

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great icosahedron

sixth stellation of the icosahedron

Jackie made the Sixth Stellation of the Icosahedron. I think it look like a medieval weapon?

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Jake made a Great Dodecahedron.

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great dodecahedron

dodecadodecahedron

Jenn created a Dodecadodecahedron. From the front, we can see an orange pentagonal face with a parallel face that contains an orange pentagram. In the same way, the red pentagonal face on the left has a raised, parallel, red pentagram face. Cool !

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Jenny made two perfectly matched tiny and large Great Dodecahedron. Very fun !

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great dodecahedron

great dodecahedron

Jeremy created a beautiful Great Dodecahedron.

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Jonathan made a Stellated Octahedron. Imagine an octahedron and place a point on each face. Voila !

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stellated octahedron

2 intersecting tetrahedron

Juhin made two intersecting tetrahedron. You can see almost the entire yellow tetrahedron.

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Kamerry had a hard time with this creation. It is a Small Dodecahemicosahedron. Very hard to do. Great job.  

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dodecahemicosahedron

stellated icosahedron

Kayleigh made a beautiful Stellated Icosahedron. Notice that you can see a green 5 pointed star facing left; a yellow star facing up; and an orange star facing the camera.

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Isaac made a beautiful Great Dodecahedron. Notice that we are looking at an orange pentagonal face with a star shaped cookie on top. From the left you can see a white pentagonal face. From below you can see a dark blue face and from above, right, you can see a lavender face.  

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great dodecahedron

sixth stellation of the icosahedron

Kristina made an outstanding polyhedra. This is the Sixth Stellation of an Icosahedron. Pretty amazing !

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Lauren made a pastel rendition of 5 intersecting tetrahedra. You can see the yellow tetrahedra almost completely.

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5 intersecting tetrahedra

great dodecahedron

Leslie gave her Great Dodecahedron some extra visuals.

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Lily made an Icosidodecahedron. The name means that it is a combination of an icosahedron and a dodecahedron.

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icosadodecahedron

geat icosahedron

Lin made a very difficult polyhedron. This is called the Great Icosahedron. This is a confusing polyhedron to build but Lin did a perfect job. Awesome!

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Marina made an incredibly beautiful mobile. She dangled five, two intersecting tetrahedra from fine strings to make a beautiful piece of art.

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mobile of intersecting tetrahedra

2 intersecting tetrahedra

Matt made two intersecting tetrahedra. You can see the light blue tetrahedra almost completely.

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Mayaan wanted to create a 3-d Star of David. I think he did it beautifully.

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2 intersecting tetrahedra

great icosahedron

Oleg created a Great Icosahedron. This figure contains 120 pieces that need to be accurately cut and glued. The color arrangement is frustratingly difficult. Oleg did a marvelous job.

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Sade made a Stellated Octahedron. Imagine an octahedron (8 faces) with a point attached to each face.

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stellated octahedron

icosadodecahedron

Sara made an Icosidodecahedron. It's name implies that it is a combination of an icosahedron and a dodecahedron. Beautiful !

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Sarah made a Great Dodecahedron. She used only shades of blue. You can clearly see the back, white, pentagonal face with a raised blue star-shaped cookie on top. From the bottom right, you can see a light blue pentagonal face. From the bottom left you can see a dark blue face. Gorgeous !

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great dodecahedron

5 intersecting tetrahedra

Sari created a model of 5 intersecting tetrahedra. You can see a yellow tetrahedra almost completely. Beautiful!

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Shir made a perfect model of an Octahedron (red, eight-sided figure) compounded with a hexahedron (yellow, six-sided cube).

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shir

Great Dodecahedron

Stephanie made a beautiful, pastel, Great Dodecahedron.

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Steven must have been enjoying himself. He created two amazing figures. The figure on the left is a lovely Great Dodecahedron. The polyhedra on the right is the sixth stellation of an Icosahedron. awesome !

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great dodecahedron and 6th stellation of icosahedron

5 intersecting tetrahedra

Josh made a beautiful model of 5 intersecting tetrahedra. We can see the green tetrahedra almost completely. Very neatly done!

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Travis made a lovely model of five intersecting tetrahedra. We can see a green tetrahedron almost completely. Beautifully constructed!

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