Topic of your Task: Solving a crime using stories and distance/time graphs
Time Frame: 2 days
Essential Question: Can a graph tell a story? Can a story be graphed??
SC Science Standards: 5.5.5
Use a graph to illustrate the motion of an object.
CCR Standards: Reading Anchor Standards 1 & 9, Writing Anchor Standards 1, 4, 6 & 8
Your task: Imagine that you are an eyewitness to a crime. The police have asked you to do two things for them: Look at a graph of the crime according to the suspect and interpret what he says he was doing when the crime happened. Then they would like you to write a brief account of what you witnessed and also create a graph that matches your account.
Steps you will be following: In order to interpret the suspect's graph and write his side of the story, AND write your own account and create the matching graph, you will do all of the following:
1) Click on the distance time link on the resources page (or just click on the green word "distance time" in this sentence) and play the game. The purpose of this game is to be sure that you understand how to create and interpret distance/time graphs and their relationship to real-world situations. As you play, take dash notes on the information and 'key points'. The 'key points' are the basics of distance/time graphs.
2) When you have finished taking notes, do the following:
Here's a link to the resource page for Distance/Time graphs.
Time Frame: 2 days
Essential Question: Can a graph tell a story? Can a story be graphed??
SC Science Standards: 5.5.5
Use a graph to illustrate the motion of an object.
CCR Standards: Reading Anchor Standards 1 & 9, Writing Anchor Standards 1, 4, 6 & 8
Your task: Imagine that you are an eyewitness to a crime. The police have asked you to do two things for them: Look at a graph of the crime according to the suspect and interpret what he says he was doing when the crime happened. Then they would like you to write a brief account of what you witnessed and also create a graph that matches your account.
Steps you will be following: In order to interpret the suspect's graph and write his side of the story, AND write your own account and create the matching graph, you will do all of the following:
1) Click on the distance time link on the resources page (or just click on the green word "distance time" in this sentence) and play the game. The purpose of this game is to be sure that you understand how to create and interpret distance/time graphs and their relationship to real-world situations. As you play, take dash notes on the information and 'key points'. The 'key points' are the basics of distance/time graphs.
2) When you have finished taking notes, do the following:
- Look at the graph on the resources page that the suspect made.
- Decide what his side of the story probably was and write it. Remember to write in first person, from his point of view, and be sure that his account matches his graph.
- Next, plan and write what YOUR account was. This is what YOU saw, not what the suspect said he did!! Be creative with this!
- Finally, create your graph to match your account.
Here's a link to the resource page for Distance/Time graphs.