Shawn

The idea for my story core comes from an activity that I've done with my students for years. However, utilizing digital story telling with this project will be a way for me to bridge the gap between just another math lesson and math being relevant in ones life. The lesson I'll be using to create my digital story is one where I have the students create the floor plan of a house and find the area of each room, as well as the whole house. As an extension I also have the student find how much it would cost to carpet the house or put in hard wood flooring. Through the use of digital stories I'll be able to have my students connect their projects to the importance of math in the real world. I feel this project will address global literacy in the manner that the students will need to design a house suited for a certain environment; and they will need to know about this environment in order to design the house. For example, a house built in Alaska would have different needs that a house built in Florida. This project will also address visual literacy. The students will be creating a paper slide video so they will need to be able to choose visuals that support the story, and the ideas with in their story. Finally this project will be addressing informational literacy in the manner that students will need to gather information regarding how an architect designs a floor plan, and which rooms are necessary for the type of house they are building. //**General Outline**//
 * 1) Read article re: using area to create an eco-friendly house in Dynamath
 * 2) Reseach/Brianstorm why people build houses (for self, for others, to help, to make $, artistic abilities...etc)
 * 3) What would a house look like/need if designed to meet a specific goal
 * 4) Design floor plan for given house
 * 5) Design story core telling the story of specific house being built, along with rationale for building specific house.
 * 6) Write story encompassing reason specific house was built.
 * 7) Design/print/download pics to tell story
 * 8) Create paper slide video:)