Dan's+Showcase

Unit Summary
Intel Teach Essentials Online Update

The unit is about students surveying the school buildings and structures to understand that what makes a good environment for them to live in. They work in teams to collect data and measurements, as well as design techniques for calculating and modelling buildings/envirnonmental features. Through carrying out the surveys and via calucluation using this knowledge, students investigate developing a model of their school, each group contributing a part to the overall finished product.

Students will gain an understanding of common design elements in building construction. They develop a sense of why certain design principles are used and have the opportunity to reflect and redesign. They then bring these together into a final presentation which they share with the group. While structures may be vastly different, there are also lots of similarities and the same things are important to many designs and purposes.

Curriculum-Framing Questions
How do I fit in?
 * Essential Question:**

How does mathematics help me describe the world I live in? How do we use trigonometric theory and formulation in the real world?
 * Unit Questions:**

How can we measure length, area, perimeter? What is Pythagoras' Theorm and trigonometry good for? Why do we use the metric system? What can use maths to simplify the world around us? What are the right units for measuring that? What is the correct language to describe and communicate? How do you convert between units? How do you find angles and side lenths in a triangle? Can you estimate? In 3 dimensions? What are the ways we can determine height?
 * Content questions:**


 * The following resources have been created to help support teachers and students throughout the project.**

__//Unit Outline://__ Outline: Sample Powerpoint:

//__Identifying prior knowledge:__// Measuring Skills: KWL Document:

//__Worksheets:__// Estimating: Measuring: Building an Inclonometer:

//__Classroom Organisation:__// Allocating students to computers and reporting problems with hardware:

//__Student help files and checklists:__// Making Your Presentation: Data Collection Rubric:


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