I just passed out the project description sheet to my two classes today and I am excited to see what this year brings. If I haven't preached to you about this project before, let me take this opportunity to let you know what I'm talking about (and tell the rest of you about it again, yay!). I created this project last year off of a similar type project I found online and it is my favorite geometry project. It challenges the students to not only complete the list of requirements and follow directions carefully, but it allows them to be creative and figure it out for themselves.
Basically I partner with my friend Kate who teaches Biology to the exact same classes that I teach Geometry to. In this project the groups of students design a zoo following certain requirements we give them. There are 5 animal types they must use with specific enclosure requirements they must follow (for example, the elephants need 300 square feet each, there will be three in the zoo, and the enclosure must be either be in the shape of a rhombus or a kite) and they are in charge of picking a 6th animal to put in their zoo. For Kate they turn in a report on what the zoo needs to do to take care of their 6th animal and any other information they think is relevant to keeping their animal in captivity. For me, they complete a scale drawing of their zoo complete with all area's of the pens and their work in finding that.
This year should be a good year because I have examples to show my classes this time around. Some of my students last year did a really nice job on it and I am excited to show these examples and challenge my current students to top them. We start work days tomorrow so I'm excited to see what they start cooking up! I'll keep you posted :)
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