WEBQUEST SUMMARY
Title:
You are the ruler!
STRAND:
Topic:
Standard &
Benchmarks:
School Gardens
Design
Standard 1: Planning: Understand the components that are
needed in planning a garden.
Benchmark: SC.G.1.4: Understand how and why measurement
and area are applied when creating a garden plan.
I can statement: I can use measurement and area to make a
garden plan.
Strand: Measurement
HI DOE
Standards:
Standard 4: FLUENCY WITH MEASUREMENT: Understand
attributes, units, and systems of units in measurement; and
develop and use techniques, tools, and formulas for
measuring
Topic
Measurement Formulas
Benchmark
MA.4.4.5
Use known measurements to calculate desired
measurements of squares and rectangles (e.g.,
use the length of the square to calculate its area
and perimeter)
Use known measurements (e.g., base and height)
to calculate desired measurements (e.g., area) of
triangles, parallelograms, and trapezoids
4-MD Perimeter and area
4th grade- Domain: 4.Measurement and Data- Cluster- Solve
problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements
from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
Standard 3. Apply the area and perimeter formulas for rectangles in
real world and mathematical problems. For example, find the width
of a rectangular room given the area of the flooring and the length,
by viewing the area formula as a multiplication equation with an
unknown factor.
Design a garden blueprint.
45 minutes + additional time to complete blueprint
Benchmark
MA.5.4.5
US Core
Standards:
Outcome:
Time
Recommended:
Materials
needed:
Pens, colored pens, ruler, graph paper (optional)
Skills – Students may need to know how multiple simple fractions.
Printing- 1 Product Explanation Sheet per student or group
Equipment (beside computer) – calculator (optional), PowerPoint or
other presentation program (optional)
Options:
Provide students with dimensions of a possible gardening space at
their school. Display their blueprints in the classroom and work with
students to build a garden.
Students may complete the blueprint as homework after they have
taken notes on the plant information.
The product can be done on the computer using a presentation
program, such as PowerPoint.
Students may work in pairs to complete the product.
Product
Differentiation:
Students needing extra support can complete their blueprints on
graph paper and check their area and perimeter calculations by
counting the squares.
Challenge students to design their garden to be able to fit the most
plants with the plants spaced out sufficiently.
Encourage student to include any shape that they can calculate the
area and perimeter of on their garden blueprint. Triangles,
parallelograms, circles etc. could both add to the design and math
component of the WQ. This would satisfy benchmarks in 5th and up
grade levels.
Students might also include the depth of the planting space and
calculate the volume. You might ask them how much soil they
would need to fill the container 3/4th of the way.