Escape From The Bermuda Triangle

Digital Break Out Game

Scenario: You have been shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Bermuda. You decide to try to create your own glider to make it back home. You are aware of the Bermuda Triangle and you know that you need to fly over it in order to get home safely. You only have so much material to work with. Will you be able to make it home based on your design?

Math Standards:

CC.2.3.6.A.1 Apply appropriate tools to solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
CC.2.2.6.B.2 Understand the process of solving a one-variable equation or inequality and apply to real-world and mathematical problems.

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Math Learning Targets

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area.
Apply composing and decomposing area techniques in the context of solving real-world and mathematical problems.
Find the area of right triangles, other triangles, special quadrilaterals, and polygons by composing into rectangles or decomposing into triangles and other shapes.
Use variables to represent numbers and write expressions when solving a real-world or mathematical problem.

Materials

Ipad
3 pieces of Paper
Ruler
Sidewalk Chalk, Tape, Legos...something to create your Bermuda triangle model, BE CREATIVE!!

You Can Use Your Foot For a Foot Too!

Digital Design Break Out Challenge

BREAKOUT GOOGLE FORM

Because you are not an avid aviator, you decide to really plan out the design of your glider. You decide to create a model so that you can determine the best glider design for you to make in order to escape the Bermuda Triangle.

Before you begin check out the google form so you know what information, pictures, and video that you will need to submit!

Model Assignment:

Create a triangle on the ground that has an area of 6 square feet. You may use something in your house to mark it; maybe sidewalk chalk, string, or tape. Ask your parents first. But take a picture of it.
Calculate the area of your sheet of paper in square inches. Write that down.
Choose 3 paper airplane designs from below.

(If you are SUPER CREATIVE, you may create your own airplane design for ONE of them.)

Fold your paper according to the directions.
Label the polygons you see on your airplanes. Take a picture of your airplanes.
Video tape the flight of each of your airplanes over your model of The Bermuda Triangle.
Determine which airplane you should model your glider after. Explain why you want to use that airplane model for your glider including mathematical vocabulary in your video.
Calculate the area of material that you really need to make your glider. This should be a different number than the area of the sheet of paper, because the glider only needs the wing span.
If your plane makes it across your Bermuda Triangle, then you have survived.
Please upload all of your information to the google form below.

Fold 'N Fly » Paper Airplane Folding InstructionsA database of paper airplanes with easy to follow folding instructions, video tutorials and printable folding plans. Find the best paper airplanes that fly the furthest and stay aloft the longest.

Supports and Accommodations

Success Criteria:

I can solve contextual area problems by composing or decomposing figures
I can explain the composition and/or decomposition process used to solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area of 2D figures
I can make sense of problems and persevere in solving them (MP1)
I can model with mathematics(MP4)
I can explain how a variable can represent an unknown number or any number in a specified set.
Given a situation, I can define variables and write an expression to represent the situation.
I can describe a problem situation (provide a context) for a given expression or equation.
I can use the context of the situation to explain what variables represent in a written expression.
I can reason abstractly and quantitatively (MP2)

Possible M.Y.P. Project

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