Submitted by: David Seal
Collaborators: Joy McDonald, ITRT
School: Hungary Creek Middle
Summary
Our goal is to review for a test on area and circumference of circles, surface area and volume of rectangular prisms and the coordinate plane. Students are given a hand held GPS unit, a coordinate worksheet and a map of the inside and outside of the school with a coordinate grid overlaid on top of the map. Students then utilize knowledge of coordinate plane graphing in order to use a GPS system to locate coordinates on the map (outside only at first). As students locate each coordinate, they find a box that holds another review activity and the tools necessary to complete the review problem. For indoor locations, GPS does not work and students then must use only the coordinate plane to find each indorr location. This method will afford the opportunity to review the various formulas, and practice taking measurements and practice using appropriate formulas.
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Research was not a focus of this review lesson
Developing: Students worked in teams to navigate with (and without) GPS and to solve the review problems at each coordinate while addressing the authentic task of using a variety of tools to navigate on a map/coordinate plane.
Approaching: Students had to think critically to answer (and justify their answers to) the essential questions, to solve the real-world review problems at each coordinate and they used a variety of tools to do so (GPS, maps, rulers, objects in nature and in the school).
Approaching: This lesson was a creative way to require students to communicate, collaborate and think critically on the synthesis level of Bloom’s taxonomy while addressing an authentic task.
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