Action Geometry

Action Geometry is a set of 5 constructions designed to teach the practice of a practical form of geometry that can be used for construction of technology and for everyday life.

C1: First Construction

Shapes in the Plane

Tools and units: classical geometry and beyond
Equilateral triangle
square
Golden triangle
Scale operation
Trash based classical geometry

C2: Second Construction

Platonic Solids

Detailed instructions for construction can be found here:

http://www.instructables.com/id/Cereal-Box-Platonic-Solids/

C3: Third Construction

ArtBox, Practical Cardboard and Duct Tape Construction

ArtBox
Cardboad structural tube
Cardboard structural octahedron
Cardboard bunji fastener
Cardboard prism and anti-prism construction

C4: Fourth Construction

Five Elementals

Earth
Air
Water
Fire
Ion

C5: Fifth Construction

Action Geography and Treasure Maps

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion globe
Surveying with triangles
On fractal precision in cartography
Instruction set
Examples