One of my many goals this year working with the Werner GT kids is to find applications for math. This means projects! Instead of doing boring review of perimeter and area with worksheets, I gave the 5th graders a task... given a certain amount of materials to work with to build an enclosure (in other words: a required perimeter,) help us build an enclosure for a zoo animal that would provide it with the maximum area. The added challenge to the project was to create a scaled-down grid to show how big your enclosure would be. Each of them had to present to our "zoo committee" and be prepared to justify how many animals would be appropriate in this enclosure and what the animal would need to survive and thrive. I was amazed at their creativity in their posters! Many of them decided to take the project a step further by making their presentation 3D. Seen here are a few of the projects. For more pictures, check out the photo portion of the website. Gotta love when science, math, and art collide in the classroom!
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