3-D Art & Design · Unit 1 · Paper 3

Sustained Investigation unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

Paper 1 Paper 2 Paper 3

Each paper is built from this unit’s 50 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 3” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.

Suggested time 34 min 31 points0/17 attempted

Writing about a structural decision

Fabrication and joining

Isolating a variable in 3-D

3-D printing and digital fabrication

Maquettes as evidence

Failure that is structural

Slab, coil and pinch construction

Fiber and soft sculpture

Writing about structural failure

Woodworking joinery

Sustained Investigation

Welding and metal fabrication

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Scale in documentation

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Clay: earthenware, stoneware, porcelain

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Inquiry framed as a material or spatial problem

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Lighting 3-D work

3 pts

Free response

7 pts

Draft the written evidence of inquiry for an AP 3-D Art and Design Sustained Investigation.

State the question or questions guiding your investigation in no more than about 600 characters, written so a reader who cannot handle your work still understands what you are testing.

For practice, explain why the inquiry is investigable in three dimensions, naming two specific material or structural decisions it forces and one observable criterion for judging an attempt.

Name three of the 15 images you would submit, including at least one that documents process, and state what each contributes as evidence.