Directions:  Students will create a power point with both text and pictures, explaining how geometry applies to the world in which we live.

Students will follow the steps:

1. Choose a topic.  Examples include: architecture (buildings, bridges), sports, quilting, the natural world, construction, etc.

2. Use Net Trekker and Picsearch to find pictures which support their topic.

3. Create 10 slides  with one title page including text explaining the slide.

4. Edit to correct content and mechanics.

5. Students will present their power point to the class.

Materials: Internet and Geometry text

Prior Instruction: Introduction to angles, lines, planes, geometric shapes

Assessment:

    Rubric

       Teacher Reflection

 

 Rubric

Students will understand and apply concepts from geometry.

•  Includes 10 slides & one title page

•  Slides support one topic each explaining geometric concepts

•  Slides include pictures and text

 

 

Students will use stylistic and rhetorical aspects of writing and speaking to explore ideas, to present lines of thought, to represent and reflect on human experience and to communicate feelings, knowledge and opinions.

    Presentation:

•  Text supports topic with correct structure in mechanics and content

•  Speaks clearly with appropriate volume

•  Orally explains topic and details from slides

•  Eye contact given to audience and slides appropriately

•  Audience gives attention to other speakers