Teaching technical drawing remotely is tough. I started this year with my engineering design students wondering how I could help them build their hand sketching skills without being in the classroom to draw with pencil, paper, and drafting tools. Asking students to photograph or scan drawings at home proved to be a fruitless endeavor, so I developed these skill-builders just for the occasion!

Each of the worksheets in this bundle was designed from the ground up for virtual learning, but they can easily be printed and completed by hand with a pencil. No more crude, blurry photocopies from the back of a dusty textbook. Students can start with the absolute basics and build their skills with practice problems of increasing difficulty. Each exercise introduces new techniques and skills, and by working through the entire sequence, they will get to try out many different styles of technical drawing. I've even included a bunch of my lesson videos as freebies! (Linked below).

These activities were designed to be used with Kami and chromebooks with a stylus, but they should work well with any document markup app of your choice, and any touchscreen device. A stylus works best, and will simulate pencil-and-paper drawing skills the best, but most exercises can even be done with a fingertip. I love the advantages that the electronic drawing exercises bring, like being able to embed video instructions right into every activity, or the ability to zoom in super close to make neater, more accurate lines.

The exercises included in this bundle are:

• Orthographic Orientation Lesson Video
• Orthographic Practice #1
• Orthographic Practice #2
• Orthographic Practice #3
• Dimensioning Lesson Video
• Dimensioning Practice #1
• Isometric Lesson Video #1
• Isometric Lesson Video #2
• Isometric Lesson Video #3
• Isometric Practice #1
• Isometric Practice #2
• Isometric Practice #3
• Isometric Practice #4
• Oblique Lesson Video
• Oblique Practice #1
• Oblique Practice #2
• Perspective Lesson Video
• Perspective Practice #1

Talk about bang for your buck! This is an awesome introductory unit for any class related to technical drawing, engineering, design, architecture, mechanical drafting, CAD, creative problem solving, or just about any other STEM discipline.

I plan to keep adding to this resource pool, so keep an eye out for new material!

You might also like my tests on this topic:

Line Types & Orthographics Version A

Line Types & Orthographics Version B

Pictorial Drawings Version A

Pictorial Drawings Version B