Urban Art

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Urban Art

Description:

The goal of this project is to explore how math and science influence artistic expression. In small groups, students build a scale model of a tree design for a citywide Urban Art project. In addition to the model, the team creates detailed instructions for how they built the tree and how it will remain stable in the outdoors in order to demonstrate their application of math and physics concepts.

Education Levels:

9

Subject:

Physics, Geometry, Visual Arts

Resource Type:

Project

Medium:

Text/HTML

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Students

Online provider:

High Tech High

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Keywords:

Trees, Scale models, Public artwork, 3-D models

Mediator:

Secondary school teachers

Publisher:

High Tech High

Contributor:

Alfred Solis

Is Part Of:

http://www.hightechhigh.org/pbl/

Language:

English

General

Essential Resources:

5/16" x 12" Dowels; 180 2MM x 1" Bamboo Skewer Sections (per team); 2.75"/2" High Standard Terra Cotta Pots; Box cutters; Glue guns with glue sticks

Learning Time:

3-4 weeks

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Science, Mathematics, Arts

Instructional Methods

Assessment Method:

Testing, Authentic assessment

Learning Outcomes:

Learning Outcomes:

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

5.0 Students prove that triangles are congruent or similar, and they are able to use the concept of corresponding parts of congruent triangles.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

8.0 Students know, derive, and solve problems involving the perimeter, circumference, area, volume, lateral area, and surface area of common geometric figures.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

9.0 Students compute the volumes and surface areas of prisms, pyramids, cylinders, cones, and spheres; and students commit to memory the formulas for prisms, pyramids, and cylinders.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

10.0 Students compute areas of polygons, including rectangles, scalene triangles, equilateral triangles, rhombi, parallelograms, and trapezoids.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

14.0 Students prove the Pythagorean theorem.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

15.0 Students use the Pythagorean theorem to determine distance and find missing lengths of sides of right triangles.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

19.0 Students use trigonometric functions to solve for an unknown length of a side of a right triangle, given an angle and a length of a side.

Broad Correlation

Mathematics Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1997)

Geometry

20.0 Students know and are able to use angle and side relationships in problems with special right triangles, such as 30°, 60°, and 90° triangles and 45°, 45°, and 90° triangles.

Broad Correlation

Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Motion and Forces

1. Newton's laws predict the motion of most objects. As a basis for understanding this concept:

c. Students know how to apply the law F = ma to solve one-dimensional motion problems that involve constant forces (Newton's second law).

Broad Correlation

Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Motion and Forces

1. Newton's laws predict the motion of most objects. As a basis for understanding this concept:

d. Students know that when one object exerts a force on a second object, the second object always exerts a force of equal magnitude and in the opposite direction (Newton's third law).

Broad Correlation

Science Content Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve (1998)

Physics

Motion and Forces

1. Newton's laws predict the motion of most objects. As a basis for understanding this concept:

j.* Students know how to resolve two-dimensional vectors into their components and calculate the magnitude and direction of a vector from its components.

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network

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