Group Members ________________ Period______
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I need HELP STUDENTS!
Students, this project is crucial and I need YOUR help! Although this is a group effort, please
remember that every member of your group must take responsibility for at least
one task to make sure that this project will be successful!
This project will be broken down into several tasks, which
will be worked on during class for the remaining two weeks of the quarter
before assessments. THIS IS YOUR FINAL
assessment, showing me that you have understood the math concepts
entailed.
For your assessment, you will construct and test your
oven.
Every summer my family and I go camping with friends at
Bellows, in Waimanalo. Every year each
family cooks a meal for dinner and every year we experience an EPIC FAIL! Last year, we tried using a dutch oven which
took too long to cook anything decent and the year before that we used an open
fire, which ended up burning our dinner.
Eventually, we ended up with hungry stomachs and very unsatisfied
friends and family. In talking to other
teachers about my awful camping cooking experiences, one teacher had mentioned
that a parabolic oven might solve my problem, materials are inexpensive, easy
to make and fast! Please help me and my
family get some ideas to make a parabolic oven.
Using the vertex form of equation
Y = a(x-h)2 + k
(h, k) is the vertex
In your project please include the following:
- Title page
- Circle Map
- Tree Map
- Graph of parabola
- Definition of focus point (h, k, p)
- Write how your group made a parabolic oven
- Explain how it works and how the focus point is important to a parabolic oven
- How you can make a better design
- Reflection
- What did you like/dislike about the project
- How can we make this project better
FASTEST MELTING MARSHMALLOW CONTEST!
This
year, we want to make a statement by displaying your best works in the
library. As a group, create a poster (or
flyer) inviting the whole student body to participate and come see your awesome
skills in creating your very own parabolic oven. Invite friends and teachers to come out to
support you during the contest held on _____________________ . Camera crews from our very own Cinema Tech
will be there to film this contest and everyone will also have a chance to see
your work in the library from __________________ to __________________.
This 10 week course has taught me the value of reflection
and editing. Being able to ask my
colleagues questions that help this project become better was an
eye-opener. I wouldn’t have been able to
conduct a project like this without the expertise and knowledge of my
colleagues who were so willing to help even though I thought I was becoming
into a madman hunting my peers down for their opinions. Being able to work on a project that had some
type of “novelty” for students meant a lot for me, I thought that if they could
relate the story to the lesson, it would become more of just “learning within
the classroom” but giving them an opportunity to build something based on a
math concept made me more excited than ever and I think the students would
appreciate this project more than just paper/pencil and lecture type of
learning. I think I have also learned to accept other people’s ideas and
acknowledge that not all my ideas are great no matter how I twist and turn the
situation. I also gained a great deal of
knowledge building this oven even if it took a couple of times to get it right
which in itself is the learning process.
I hope that my students will realize the importance of whatever they
learn within the classrooms has significance and can be applicable in the real
world as well.
