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Design a Parking Garage Lesson PlanDesign a Parking Garage Lesson Plan
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6th - 8th
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Design a Parking Garage

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Parking structures don't build themselves. Investigate the process of designing and planning the construction of a parking garage. After considering the factors that must go into the design, scholars create their own models from a set of constraints. 

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

design, area, math modeling, slope, scale

Additional Tags

math

Instructional Ideas

  • Vary the constraints given to groups to differentiate the lesson
  • Incorporate as a performance task during a unit on scale models

Classroom Considerations

  • Expects an understanding of finding the area of quadrilaterals and slope

Pros

  • Provides documents in an editable format
  • Includes a teaching guide to help plan for the activity

Cons

  • None

Common Core

7.G.A.1

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