Project-Based Rigor

Students will create a cereal box that offers accurate, but misleading data. They will look at: - Including/excluding certain nutrition facts - Adjusting serving size to help their case - Compare it to other brands with misleading graphs - Find studies about certain ingredients This is a fun project to do during a data unit that gets them practicing how to use graphs, statistics, and makes it fun. This should take roughly 2 hours of class time. This includes instructions, simple rubric, and cer

Two activities for TinkerCAD that could work as a Part 1/Part 2 or as two different levels for differentiation. There is some overlap (definition of volume, instructions for getting started) but each deal with different types of problems and mostly different Math. Great for incorporating steam and 3D printing in your classroom. Please see specific information in each project's individual listing.

TinkerCAd is a free, online application to introduce all levels of students to Computer Animated Design. It can be used on all devices. This is a fun and comprehensive project that covers Volume, CAD design, and 3D printing in a meaningful way. They will design and be able to print out a name tag. This is a more intro level project that could work as an intro to the Pencil Holder Project, or as a stand alone project. Designed to add some STEAM into your classroom in a way students will be able t

The first few days after summer vacation can hectic with teachers trying to prepare the first unit and students wanting to talk about their summer. This activity covers both. It also helps students get back into mathematical thinking by having them find ratios, percents, and basic surface area and volume. In this activity, students: - List the activities they did and estimate what percent of their summer they took up. - Create a circle graph (with helpful hints on dividing circles into percents

TinkerCAd is a free, online application to introduce all levels of students to Computer Animated Design. It can be used on all devices. This is a fun and comprehensive project that covers Volume, Scale Factor, Surface Area, CAD design, and 3D printing in a meaningful way. They will design and be able to print out a pencil holder for their lockers that can stick to the inside. (Magnets will need to be provided). Students work at their own pace! During this project, students: - Learn about volume

Fun and comprehensive project that covers many main topics learned in 7th grade in a meaningful way. Students work at their own pace! During this project, students: - Brainstorm - Design and price a brownie - Create a company - Design and price packaging - Determine factory expenses - Determine employee expenses - Choose a loan - Profit analysis - Final company analysis - Interview with business owner In the process, students will use - proportions - unit rates - percentages - equations - surf

A comprehensive project that has students explore unit conversion, substituting into equations, proportions, surface area and volume of cylinders, volume maximization, and logical real world questions and skills they will use outside of the class. They end with creating a cylindrical container for their cookies and ideally making cookies as a culmination of the end of the project. Take a look at the thumbnails and preview and see. Students work at their own pace! Great resource that allows for

A comprehensive project to deepen students understanding of circles, promote themselves, and work on many other skills that will help them outside of class. Students work at their own pace! In this project, students: - Brainstorm positive aspects about themselves to create stickers that promote themselves. - They learn everything about area and circumference - Create first drafts - Calculate specifics about their stickers - Look at maximum and minimum border areas - Survey people - Create digit

Great project that allows students to plan their dream vacation. The students: - Get a brief introduction on shortcuts with finding percentages - Plan it out, - Find overall expense - Determine their income - Examine monthly expenses - Budget for the vacation. Throughout the project, they answer questions, research online, and interview someone. Students work at their own pace! They work heavily with - Percentages: discount, tax, gratuity, commission, ratios, parts of whole. - They also subs