A Tour of New York City

19 Pages·2008·2.097 MB·English

by  Julia Wall

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Editor
Contents
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Editor-in-Chief
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A Vacation in New York City 4
Rachelle Cracchiolo, M.S.Ed.
Hunting for 3-D Shapes 5
Scraping the Sky 6
An Unusual Building 8
A Glass Cube 10
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Columns Are Cylinders 12
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A Vacation Hunting
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in New York City for -D Shapes
I am spending my vacation I’m learning about 3-D shapes right now in school.
in New York City with my uncle. My uncle says we will fi nd lots of 3-D shapes in New
He is going to take me on a tour York. I can’t wait!
of the city.
length
height
width
rectangular prism
What Are 3-D Shapes?
3-D means three-dimensional.
The dimensions (duh-MEN-shuhns)
of a 3-D shape are length, width,
and height.
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Scraping the Sky
This is the Seagram Building. It is a huge rectangular
prism. It has 6 rectangular faces.
New York is full of sskkyyssccrraappeerrss.
Many skyscrapers are rectangular pprriissmmss.
Rectangular prisms are 3-D shapes made
up of rectangles.
corner
edge
face
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Rectangular Facts
Faces are the fl at parts
3-D shapes have faces. of the 3-D shape. Edges The Seagram Building
are where 2 faces meet.
The faces are the fl at was fi nished in 1958.
Corners are where 3
parts of a 3-D shape. It is 514.8 feet (156.9 m)
edges meet.
tall and it has 38 stories.
Look at the rectangular prism above.
How many faces does it have?
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An Unusual
The Flatiron
Building is a
triangular prism.
Building It has 5 faces. Its
edges are curved
a little.
My favorite skyscraper
is the Flatiron Building. It
is different from most other Triangular Facts
skyscrapers. It is an unusual
The real name of the
shape for a skyscraper.
Flatiron Building is the
Fuller Building. It is
285 feet (87 m) tall.
Shape Up
Some architects like to
use certain shapes in their
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buildings. Some like to design (cid:38)(cid:38)
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buildings with curved shapes.
Others like fl at, straight shapes. Look at the photo above.
a. How many faces of the Flatiron
building can you see in this photo?
b. How many faces are hidden?
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A Glass Cube
This store also has an elevator
in the shape of a cylinder.
Next, I wanted to fi nd a cube. It was hard! But we
found this amazing store.
Cube Fact
Each side of this cube-shaped
store entrance is 32 feet by
32 feet (9.8 m).
The store is underground and the entrance is a big
glass cube. It has 6 faces, all the same size.
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Look at these objects. 1
2
a. Which shapes are cubes?
3
4
b. Which shapes are
rectangular prisms?
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Columns
The statue sits on top of a column. A column is a
cylinder. It has 2 circular faces and a ccuurrvveedd side.
Are Cylinders
I wondered where we would fi nd another cylinder.
My uncle said he would take me to Columbus Circle.
It has a statue of Christopher Columbus.
The Columbus Circle is named
for Christopher Columbus.
Can you tell why it is also
called a circle?
Cylinder Fact
The cylinder that holds
up the Columbus statue
is 70 feet (21.3 m) high.
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A Round
Sculpture
Right near the cylinder, we found a sspphheerree. This
sphere is a ssccuullppttuurree of Earth. It is made of metal.
This sculpture of Earth
sits outside Trump Tower.
The Earth sculpture has only 1 curved side. It does
not have edges or corners. A sphere doesn’t have a face,
so there is a pole to stop it from rolling away!
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Look at these sphere and cylinder shapes.
a. What is the same about these 2 shapes?
b. What is diff erent?
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