Math Playground Project-Rebecca Athmer

I created this assessment rubric for my grade 9 math class during my internship and I believe that it reflects a 21st century teaching style. This assessment allows students to present their knowledge through a real world application. It also allowed students to be creative and imaginative when presenting the content learning. Students were able to construct a project that was of interest to them for example a water park and paintball course were some of the projects created. After correcting students assignments one change that I would make to the rubric is requiring students to show the formula that they used so that it makes their work easier to follow and correct. Also, although I had communicated to my students the curricular outcome being covered in this unit, I feel that it would have had more impacted if it was stated again on the rubric sheet. 

Upon completion of this assignment student learning can related directly to the 7C’s including developing creative, innovation, and entrepreneurship, developing critical thinking, and developing character. It develops creatively because it encourages students to develop their own play ground using different shapes. It develops critical thinking because it encourages students to explore the surface area of new and different shapes to include into their project. Finally it develops characters because it encourages life-long learner through the connection to the real world application, responsibility, and personal productivity.