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**PBL Projects - Mathematics**
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 **Your name (s):** **Other Content area(s) (if applicable):** **Project title:** **Grade level:** **Project idea:** **Driving Question:** **Content:** **Student Product(s):** **﻿**
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Your name (s): Roger Eakins

Other Content area(s)(if applicable): Science

Project title: Flying High With Kites

Grade level: 11/12

Project idea: Kite design and performance.

Driving Question: How do recyclable/reusable materials effect kite performance?

Content: Geometry(parallel, perpendicular and skew lines, angles). "Going Green" initiative.

21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed: Collaboration, Critical Thinking/Problem Solving, Inquiry, Communication.

Student Product(s): An actual kite that they have researched and constructed out of recyclable/reusable materials and can fly.

 **Your name (s):** Melinda Cales, Tara Michels, Deanne Spencer and Joni Craver **Other Content area(s) (if applicable):** Math and Language arts, Science and Social Studies **Project title:** The Cell Phone Project **Grade level:** 9 **Project idea:** Students will make a decision about a cell phone plan and create a persuasive essay to persuade a consumer for a better plan. They will be investigate cost, texting packages, minute usage packages, data plan packages etc. Students will create a video of them reading their persuasive essays to a parent/guardian and post them to the class wiki. Students will then reflect and post a reply to recordings of people in their own group.

//*This Project will lead into further projects during the year also dealing with Cell Phones. Driving questions may include://
 * Social Studied & Language Arts: How have cell phones effected culture?
 * Math and Science: How can we build a cell phone tower to ensure better reception?

**Driving Question:** How can I decide which cell phone plan is best for me?

**Content:**
 * **Math-** Creating equations in one variable and using them to solve problems.
 * ** Language Arts- ** Write Arguments to support claims in analysis of substantive topics and using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence. Write informative texts to examine and convey complex ideas and concepts through effective selection, organization, and analysis of content.
 * **Science-** Students develop scientific habits of mind as they use the processes of scientific inquiry to ask valid questions and to gather and analyze information. They understand how to develop hypotheses and make predictions.
 * **Social Studies** - Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate application to modern day world. The student is able to explain how the United States was build upon the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Student Product(s):**
 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:**
 * Problem Solving
 * Organization & Collaboration
 * Communication

Persuasive Essay with In Class Presentation of findings to be recorded and posted to Wiki for peer review.

Comment from Donna - I really like the idea that this will lead into further related projects during the year.


 * Your name (s): Jeff Strawser**

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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project title: Calculus Survival 101**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Grade level: 12+**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project idea: To help students "remember what they know" from Precalculus that will aid their transition into Calculus.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Driving Question: How do I survive the first quarter of Calculus?**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Content: Written, graphical, algebraic, and numeric forms, characteristics, and properties of the following functions: Linear, Quadratic, Cubic and higher order, Exponential, Logarithmic, Power, and Trigonometric.**


 * 21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed:Collaboration, Presentation, Critical Thinking, Research, and Technology Operations.**

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Student Product(s): A presentation of some sort that can be posted to the class website, such as a, video, VoiceThread, or PowerPoint, etc. This presentation will be accessible by our mirror class at Buckeye High School.**

<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">21st Century Skills to be taught and assessed: ** Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Communication
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Your name (s): **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Angie Henniger
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Other Content area(s) (if applicable): **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Geometry
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Project title: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Regal Cinemas Popcorn
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Grade level: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Grade 10
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Project idea: ** To have students discover and use the formulas for area, surface area, and volume and discuss maximizing or minimizing ratios.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Driving Question: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Can I design new popcorn containers for Regal Cinemas that “look big” but save them money?
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Content: **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Nets, area, surface area, volume, ratios, unit cost
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Student Product(s): **<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">2-D and 3-D models of the popcorn container designs and a presentation of the process and mathematics involved. The presentation may be oral using presentation software or the students can save their project using a wiki or blogster with voicethreads to explain their results to the class.