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**PBL Projects - Mathematics**
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**Your name:** Jenny Walls **Project name:** Saving the Gold by Making Firestone Green **Secondary Content area:** Mathematics - Calculus **Challenge or Driving Question:** How can Firestone High School students create a green school? **Project Summary:** Students will create a container used in a lunchroom that maximizes volume and minimizes material. The container must be of an appealing shape, so perfect solids such as cylinders and cubes are not permitted. In designing the container, the container must be a solid formed by revolving an area bounded by two equations around the x- or y-axis, so students will write the necessary equations, noting parameters. Using the shell method, washer method, or differentials, the volume of the liquid and the volume of material needed must be calculated. Students must also justify both in analytic and written form why their design maximizes volume and minimizes material. The final products will be a presentation and a commercial. The commercial must be in a format that could air on tv or on the radio that presents the benefits of the new container over current containers. As part of the commercial portion, design a creative logo for your container that reflects mathematics and shows some mathematics in the design (like Geometry or Trig or Functions). The audience for this portion will be Honors Geometry students. A second presentation must be made regarding the design of the container and the supporting mathematics. This presentation will be given to design engineers from local companies.  **Your name:** Jackie Harkness
 * Applying integration to calculate volume of a solid formed by rotating an area enclosed by two equations around an axis.
 * Applying differentiation to find extrema (ie: maximums and minimums)

**Secondary Content area:** Mathematics - Geometry
 * Project Title:** 21stCentury Ellet High School
 * Volume
 * Surface Area
 * Area
 * Environmental Sciences
 * Fiscal responsibility
 * Technology
 * Ratios and proportions
 * Professional and/or persuasive writing
 * Effective communication


 * Project Idea:** Students will design, plan, research, promote and present ideas for a new Ellet High School facility.


 * Driving Question:** How can Ellet High School students solve the problem of a currently deteriorating high school building?


 * Major Student Products:**
 * Scale drawing/model/floor plan
 * Website-testimonials/history of school
 * On-line surveys
 * Sitemap
 * Geological report
 * Debates
 * Presentation to Board of Education, ODE, city council
 * Brochure
 * Interviews with students and staff of current Ellet and other newer buildings

**Your name:** Ron Clark (Buckeye Local High School) <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project name:** Go Figure! <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Secondary Content area (if applicable):** Possibility for English and Science **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Challenge or Driving Question: **How can we make a plan that will save Buckeye Local School District money on transportation costs? <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project Summary:** Students will be presented with the problem that our district is currently facing, rising transportations costs and a cut budget. They will be asked by the superintendent to examine current transportation costs and develop a plan that saves the district money. Possibilities include changing bus routes, combining stops, purchasing new fuel efficient busses, etc. Students will have choice of which direction they wish to take. As part of the assignment, students will be asked to work with computer programs such as Excel and Numbers to create a cost analysis spreadsheet. They will work with programs like Word or Pages to develop a proposal to be submitted to the Board of Education. They will work with presentation software such as Powerpoint, Keynote, or Prezi to construct their presentation. They will also be required to create podcasts that will serve as public service announcements explaining the benefits of their plans. Podcasts will remain on an internal server and not actually released to the public. When finished, students will evaluate their peers as well as themselves. Quizzes will be given throughout the project to asses the level of mastery of content such as ratios/proportions and unit conversions.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Your name:** Megan Lantz & Jackie Harkness


 * Project Title:** 21stCentury Ellet High School

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Secondary Content area:** Mathematics - Geometry


 * Volume
 * Surface Area
 * Area
 * Environmental Sciences
 * Fiscal responsibility
 * Technology
 * Ratios and proportions
 * Professional and/or persuasive writing
 * Effective communication


 * Project Idea:** Students will design, plan, research, promote and present ideas for a new Ellet High School facility.


 * Driving Question:** How can Ellet High School students solve the problem of a currently deteriorating high school building?


 * Major Student Products:**


 * Scale drawing/model/floor plan
 * Website-testimonials/history of school
 * On-line surveys
 * Sitemap
 * Geological report
 * Debates
 * Presentation to Board of Education, ODE, city council
 * Brochure
 * Interviews with students and staff of current Ellet and other newer buildings

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Your name: JEFF MERRILL** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project name: PICTURE THIS!** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Secondary Content area (if applicable): CALCULUS CHAPTER 1 REVIEW** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Challenge or Driving Question: HOW DO WE AS EDUCATORS CREATE A TUTORIAL TO SUPPORT NEW CALCULUS STUDENTS?** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Project Summary:** Students will be broken into five groups. Each group will be responsible to present a tutorial of a different type of graph: linear, quadratic, higher order, logarithmic & exponential, trigonometric. Each member of the group will be responsible for an example of their type of graph. The group as a whole will be responsible to present their tutorial to the rest of the class as well as create problems for the rest of the class to figure out to make sure everyone in the class understands each group of graphs.. The students will have SHOW ME & CHALKBOARD iPad apps demonstrated to them as well as how to upload information to the website so it can be shared with the rest of the class.