Lesson Overview: This lesson will be used to show students that Geometry is very useful in many different careers, including some careers they wouldn’t have guessed needed math at all. This lesson will help motivate students, since they will see that what they’re learning may be helpful to them in the future.
This lesson is designed mostly as a web-quest. Students will be given a list of websites that contain information about careers that use Geometry that they can use as resources. They can also conduct some of their own research outside of these websites, if they wish. As an assessment, students will complete a worksheet. This worksheet will then serve as a guide for the Keynote presentations students will create and present to the class.
Objectives: After this lesson, students will be able to… Name several careers that use Geometry and explain how Geometry is used in these careers. Name several ways Geometry can be used in real life that they didn’t know about before. Present information about a career that interests them that uses Geometry.
Description of Lesson/Activities: First, the teacher must email out the website links to the students or post them on Schoology. My school has a 1:1 iPad program, so my students would all be completing the project independently on their iPads.
Once the students have the links, they can start by looking at the first three websites for information about the different kinds of careers that use Geometry and how Geometry is useful in each one. As they read this information, they will be filling out the worksheet attached at the bottom of the page.
After reading about different careers, students will choose one that they think they would be most likely to choose for their futures. They will finish completing the worksheet by finding information on their chosen career using the last two links that were emailed to them.
Finally, students will use the completed worksheet as a guide to create a Keynote slideshow about the career they chose. Then they will give their presentations to the class.
Assessment Tools: Students will have a web-quest worksheet they will complete as they find information about careers that use Geometry. The worksheet is included at the bottom of the page. Students will also be graded on their presentations using a rubric, which is also included at the bottom of the page.