Let's Connect the Pieces: King's Island Field Trip
My students need help with the bus transportation costs for an end-of-the-year class trip to King's Island to put classroom concepts into real life perspective.
Field trips are a wonderful way for children to connect what they are learning in class to the outside world. For the first few months of school, we learned about roller coasters throughout the world: their velocity, height, rider capacity, and design.
A typical day in my classroom involves a rich curriculum with many hands-on math problems and the use of manipulatives.
All students receive the normal math instruction and are then ability grouped according to their math skills for a second rotation of math. These students have worked really hard all year. Their scores definitely show their hard work and improvement. They are entitled to a reward for all of their hard work.
My Project
These students completed a project on roller coasters at the beginning of the year. They looked at height, speed, duration, angle of drop, type of coaster, restraining device, and environment. They collected data on several roller coasters throughout the world. They worked to find the average speed of these roller coasters and also determined what helped make a roller coaster a thrill. They then had to design a roller coaster that would help a fictional amusement park increase their sales. My students need help with the bus transportation costs for an end-of-the-year class trip to King's Island to put classroom concepts into real life perspective. This may be the only time our students are able to experience an amusement park.
Please allow our students to visit a place where imaginations soar, roller coasters rock, and dreams really do come true.
Give them a chance to experience and apply the math that they have learned. They will forever love math!
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