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Project Overview
Project Overview
- Social Media plays a large role in our students everyday life.
- Incorporating a Tik-Tok inspired video to formatively assess students at the end of both units will lead to higher engagement and higher-level understanding in both Math and Social Studies.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
- How have the Greeks had a profound impact on Western thought and influence on global events?
- How is Ancient Greece the cradle of Western Civilization?
- How can you prove the Pythagorean Theorem?
- How can the Pythagorean Theorem be used to solve problems?
- How do you find the length of the hypotenuse given the lengths of both legs in a right triangle?
Standards
Standards
Social Studies:
6.2.8.A.3.c Determine the foundational concepts and principles of Athenian democracy and the Roman Republic that later influenced the development of the United States Constitution.
6.2.8.C.3.b Explain how the development of a uniform system of exchange facilitated trade in classical civilizations.
6.2.8.C.3.c Explain how classical civilizations used technology and innovation to enhance agricultural/manufacturing output and commerce, to expand military capabilities, to improve life in urban areas, and to allow for greater division of labor.
Math:
8.G.8 Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.
- 8.G.B.6 Explain a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem and its converse.
8.G.B.7 Apply the Pythagorean Theorem to determine the unknown side lengths in right triangles.
Assessment
Assessment
You are going to create a “Tik-Tok” inspired Flipgrid to teach your classmates. The video must include:
- What is one specific thing Pythagoras contributed to society besides the Pythagorean Theorem.
- Create and explain an example finding the missing side to a right triangle (Hint: The sides MUST represent a Right Triangle--Converse to the Pythagorean Theorem).
Students will also comment on each other videos and take part in a digital discussion about Pythagoras.
Blooms Taxonomy
Blooms Taxonomy
- Students will create a video about Pythagoras. They will produce their own work.
- Students will evaluate:
- Pythagoras impact on history.
- Their peers videos on Pythagoras
- Students will draw connections between Math and Social Studies
- Students will apply skills of Pythagorean Theorem to solve an equation
Students will understand and explain Pythagoras impact on history
Multiple Intelligences
Multiple Intelligences
- Visual-Spatial: Students will utilize pictures, diagrams, transitions, images, and text to reinforce content and create greater interest in Pythagoras and the Pythagorean Theorem in their videos.
- Bodily-Kinesthetic: Students will actively create and act out their TikTok inspired FlipGrid videos.
- Musical: Students will be able to narrate and act music or sounds to their videos.
- Interpersonal: After all videos are submitted, students will be able to comment and watch their classmates videos on the class Grid.
- Intrapersonal: Students will create their own videos on FlipGrid and do their own research to find Pythagoras’ contribution to society (other than the Pythagorean Theorem).
- Linguistic: Students will explain their historical findings and own self-created math problem on the class Grid and respond to other students.
- Logical/Mathematical: Students will use the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the missing side length on a right triangle.
Credits
Credits
Bloom's Taxonomy: https://www.teachthought.com/learning/what-is-blooms-taxonomy-a-definition-for-teachers/.
Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences:
FlipGrid:
TikTok:
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