Grade: Second Grade

Subject: Mathematics

Topic: Geometry

Submitted by: Beth A. Adkins

02/26/08

Performance Task – GRASPS

Goal – You will learn what plane and solid figures are based on the number of edges, vertices, and the sizes of their angles. You will be able to identify them based on the number of edges, vertices and the sizes of their angles. You will be able to recognize these shapes in your environment based on their attributes.

Role – You will work for an advertising company.

Audience – Your company will be contacted by Mr. G. O. Metric. Mr. Metric owns a company that makes and sells plane and solid geometric figures. He will be very interested in your finished product.

Situation – Mr. G. O. Metric owns “Shapes Made Easy.” Where their motto is “You shape up and we ship it out!” He has contacted the company where you work and has asked for a billboard to advertise his shapes. He wants to inform the public how much they need shapes in their lives. Hopefully, they will purchase more shapes from his company. To make sure that Mr. Metric is well taken care of, you will work in 4 teams. Your team’s job is to locate and photograph geometric figures that be represented on the billboard located on Hwy #3 (Hallway #3.) The teams will work in the following areas:

Team #1 will locate and photograph triangles, trapezoids and cones.

Team #2 will locate and photograph squares, pentagons and cylinders

Team #3 will locate and photograph quadrilaterals, hexagons and spheres.

Team #4 will locate and photograph rectangles, prisms, and irregular 2 and 3 dimensional Polygons.

(All teams will write a short research paper describing their assigned shapes and the various places the team found and photographed them.)

Product/Performance – You will locate examples of your assigned shapes every day. You will photograph those shapes. On the photograph you will outline the shape represented with magic marker to help the “not so well trained eyes” to see your example. You will get many different examples of each type of shape that your team has been assigned. On the Billboard, under the title of “Shapes made easy” each team will be given ¼ of the space to represent their shapes. These shapes should be identified and classified directly in their section of the advertisement. The completed billboard will be a mosaic of shapes. The short research paper that each team will write is part of the billboard project. This paper however is to be given directly to Mr. G.O. Metric as evidence of your research. In order to increase public awareness of the importance and various uses of shapes, this compiled information will be used for future product development at “Shapes Made Easy.”

Standard/Criteria for Success – See rubric

"Shapes Made Easy" Billboard Project Rubric
CATEGORY	Excellent = 4	Good = 3	Developing = 2	Needs Work = 1
Required Elements 3 examples (photographs) of each assigned shape.	The assigned area of the billboard includes all required elements as well as additional information.	All required elements are included in the assigned area of the billboard.	All but 1 of the required elements is included in the assigned area of the billboard.	Several required elements were missing from the assigned area of the billboard.
Clarity	Photographs are all in focus and the content easily viewed and identified from 6 ft. away.	Most photographs are in focus and the content easily viewed and identified from 6 ft. away.	Most photographs are in focus and the content is easily viewed and identified from 4 ft. away.	Many photographs are not clear or are too small.
Outlining	All photographs in the assigned area of the billboard are clearly outlined with a marker and can be read from at least 3 ft. away.	Almost all photographs on the billboard are clearly outlined with a marker and can be read from at least 3 ft. away.	Several photographs on the billboard are clearly outlined with a marker and can be read from at least 3 ft. away.	Shapes in photographs are too small to outline OR no photographs were outlined with marker.
Originality	Photographs used on the billboard reflect an exceptional degree of student creativity in their creation and/or display.	One or two of the photographs used on the poster reflect student creativity in their creation and/or display.	The photographs are made by the student, but are based on the designs or ideas of others.	No photographs made by the student are included.
Grammar/Content	There are no grammatical or content mistakes found in the research paper.	There is 1 grammatical or content mistake in the research paper.	There are 2 grammatical or content mistakes in the research paper.	There are more than 2 grammatical mistakes in the research paper.
Knowledge Gained	Student can accurately answer all questions related to shapes on the billboard and information compiled within research paper.	Student can accurately answer most questions related to shapes on the billboard and information compiled within research paper.	Student can accurately answer about 75% of questions related to shapes on the billboard and info compiled within research paper.	Student appears to have insufficient knowledge about the shapes on the billboard and information compiled within research paper.
Working Together	Almost always listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others in the group. Tries to keep people working well together.	Usually listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others in the group. Does not cause "waves" in the group.	Often listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others in the group but sometimes is not a good team member.	Rarely listens to, shares with, and supports the efforts of others in the group. Often is not a good team member.