Lesson Plan 15

Final Project

Lesson Title	Final Project
Duration	6 classes (9 hours)
Synopsis	Students bring what they have learned during the semester to create their own culturally-based virtual environment
Description of Class	Students are guided in working together as a class to create a unified theme or vision of a virtual world.  This theme is first made real as a landscape plan on graph paper, then made into a mathematical formalization using the file format introduced in lesson 12. This plan is used to create a 3-d environment which the students interact with using the DVD Wall technology.  Students work on their individual images, and bring them as texture maps on geometry in the virtual world. The class culminates in a public display of this final project.
Primary Educational Objective	Create a culturally relevant VR environment
Additional Concepts and Skills	Integrate the interdisciplinary skills the students have learned during the semester. Demonstrate an understanding of trig functions as circular functions Apply trig functions to solve physical problems Demonstrate understanding of the construction of the coordinate plane Use basic geometric ideas in the context of the Euclidean Plane Describe the effect of rigid motions on figures in the coordinate plane Interpret and draw two-dimensional objects and find their area and perimeter Model real-world ohenomena using linear and quadratic inequalities Use a variety of computational models (e.g. mental arithmetic, paper and pencil, technological tools) Describe the concept of a graph of a function Translate among tabular, symbolic, and graphical representations of functions Explain and use function notations Describe the concept of a graph of an equation Represent and analyze relationships using written and verbal expressions, tables, equations, and graphs Know that science plays a role in many different kinds of careers Understand the scientific foundations of common technologies Analyze the impact of digital technologies Use technologies to quantify relationships in scientific hypotheses
Assessment	Class participation.  Critique of final project.
Classroom Activities	As a group, develop a theme and plan for a virtual environment. Use Corel to work on culturally based imagery. Map their images onto the VR world geometry.
Homework Assignments	Produce a personal iconography, and use it to produce images for the group virtual environment.
Lecture Materials	Lecture materials are available as a Power Point presentation
Reference Materials	TBD
Prerequisites (this course)	Corel Painter DAFFIE Imagecp Use of the DAFFIE viewer
Pre- and Co- requisites (other classes)
Technology Requirements	Corel Painter DVD Wall system DAFFIE software, including imagecp
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