How do societal factors affect ecosystems?

In this project, students learn about biodiversity, sustainability, natural selection, and evolution. Throughout the project, students learn more and more about an island in need of conservation. In the end, the students make individual decisions on what part of the island they believe is the most important to conserve and why. The final product is a Socratic discussion over which the part of the island that they, as a group, will choose to conserve.

Students produced some amazing constructions at the beginning of our geometry unit. Along with learning and practicing the language and vocabulary of geometry and math, they learned how to create precise drawings of equilateral triangles, regular hexagons, copy and bisect angles, parallel lines, perpendicular lines and bisectors, and create wonderful art. Examine the picture on the left below and see how many triangles you see or how many regular hexagons you can count. What other shapes do you see? Can do you see any rectangles? How many circles did this student use to make this drawing?