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Preformence Tasks

d.tech Geometry Unit 1 Performance Task A ----due Monday, September 2nd

Design a City!!!

 

Instructions:

 

  • Be sure to read all directions & requirements before beginning the project, so you know exactly what you need to do!

 

  • Before starting the project, you must make a rough draft of your city on notebook paper. Use the rough draft to sketch out where things will go on the larger map.

 

  • Your rough draft will be worth 10 points.

 

  • Use your rough draft as a guide to help you create the city on poster board/light card board/canvas etc.

 

  • Think about the areas that need to be reserved for specific things in your town, particularly the Park, the legend and the Title.

 

  • The trickiest part will be your scaling. If your city is 24 square miles, for instance, your poster should be 24 square inches. Be sure that you mark you map with a legend---->

 

 

Requirements:

 

1. Draw 3 parallel roads, and name them. (The names can be real or made up. For example: Lola Avenue, Garcia Road, Maui Boulevard.) Use a ruler to draw the lines for your roads. Also make sure that all roads are the same width (size).

 

Hint: Your roads will look neater if you erase any solid lines where 2 or more roads meet. Make it look realistic. There are no lines where roads intersect.

 

2. Draw 2 roads that are each perpendicular to at least one of the 3 parallel lines, and name these roads.

 

3. Draw 2 intersecting roads on the map of your city. They may intersect  each  other, or any of the other roads. These roads intersect, but are not perpendicular. Name these roads.

 

4.      In the lower left corner of your town, you will create a park. The park must meet the  following criteria:

 

  • The park is a square with a labeled area. (A = bh)

  • Draw a pond with a labeled circumference.

  • Finally, draw a right scalene triangle for the picnic area

 

5.      Using the example shapes provided below, create at least 4 buildings for your city, Each building must have a mathematical name (Examples: Angular Apartments, Median Motel, Granny Petunia’s Pie ∏ Store, Optical Octagons, Triangular Tire Depot, etc.)

 

 

6.   Get creative!

 

Personalize your city by adding places/items you’d like in a city.

Some possibilities are: slide and swings for the park, picnic tables in the picnic area of your park, extra roads, people, trees/plants, cars and trucks on the highways, traffic signs, a railroad, a bus station, a river, etc.

 

*Use art supplies to make your map colorful and interesting.

*Give your city a name. Place the name at the top of your map. (Be creative!)

 

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