Description
Students will explore many topics within exponential functions in application to the crisis of deforestation. The project covers reading data from a chart, modeling exponential and linear functions, end behavior, finding rate, and substituting values into exponential functions. Students will read short articles about deforestation and use the given information to apply their knowledge of exponential functions. The project is done best when students work in groups and discuss their results and reactions as a class afterwards.
This video was used to introduce the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jhjt1_eyM
Also, it was quite fun to listen to rainforest sounds throughout the whole project and project this video. It kept the students calm and focused! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE
This video was used to introduce the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jhjt1_eyM
Also, it was quite fun to listen to rainforest sounds throughout the whole project and project this video. It kept the students calm and focused! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE
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Highlights
Digital downloads
Grades
8th - 10th
Subjects
Standards
CCSSHSF-LE.A.1
CCSSHSF-LE.A.2
CCSSHSF-LE.A.3
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Pages
4
Answer Key
Not Included
Teaching Duration
2 hours
Description
Students will explore many topics within exponential functions in application to the crisis of deforestation. The project covers reading data from a chart, modeling exponential and linear functions, end behavior, finding rate, and substituting values into exponential functions. Students will read short articles about deforestation and use the given information to apply their knowledge of exponential functions. The project is done best when students work in groups and discuss their results and reactions as a class afterwards.
This video was used to introduce the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jhjt1_eyM
Also, it was quite fun to listen to rainforest sounds throughout the whole project and project this video. It kept the students calm and focused! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE
This video was used to introduce the project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4jhjt1_eyM
Also, it was quite fun to listen to rainforest sounds throughout the whole project and project this video. It kept the students calm and focused! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8myYyMg1fFE
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this was a great project for some of my higher students to practice algebra !
Great idea, good background; I wish there was an answer key
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Standards
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CCSSHSF-LE.A.1
Distinguish between situations that can be modeled with linear functions and with exponential functions.
CCSSHSF-LE.A.2
Construct linear and exponential functions, including arithmetic and geometric sequences, given a graph, a description of a relationship, or two input-output pairs (include reading these from a table).
CCSSHSF-LE.A.3
Observe using graphs and tables that a quantity increasing exponentially eventually exceeds a quantity increasing linearly, quadratically, or (more generally) as a polynomial function.
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