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Give plants the best place to grow. Given constraints on plant spacing, pupils design a raised bed garden using graph paper, then calculate the perimeter, surface area, and volume. They use the provided costs of lumber and soil to calculate the total cost of building the garden.
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Instructional Ideas
- Allow the class to use software like GeoGebra or Geometer's Sketch Pad to help with drawings
- Collaborate with a technology teacher to have scholars build the actual school garden
Classroom Considerations
- Learners must have experience with perimeter, area, and volume
Pros
- Includes a rubric for the project
- Provides links to images of sample gardens
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- None