Urban+Art+Project

=Resource=

http://www.hightechhigh.org/pbl/urban-art/overview.html

=Summary=

===“In small groups, students build a scale model of a tree design for a citywide Urban Art project. In addition to the model, the team creates detailed instructions for how they built the tree and how it will remain stable in the outdoors in order to demonstrate their application of math and physics concepts.” ===

=CCSS Alignment for Grade 9=


 * ===**G-SRT.8 **: //Use trigonometric ratios and the Pythagorean Theorem to solve right triangles in applied problems.// Students will use the Pythagorean Theorem to determine distance and find missing lengths of sides of right triangles. ===