Journey To the Center of the Earth

Grade:  6-8th

Standards:

The student will understand and generalize patterns as they represent and analyze quantitative relationships and change in a variety of contexts and problems using graphs, tables, and equations.

The student will develop number and operation sense needed to represent numbers and number relationships verbally, symbolically, and graphically and to compute fluently and make reasonable estimates in problem solving.

 

Objectives:

Students will use concepts of proportions and rate of speed to design and present a proposal of the most cost effective trip to Ruby Falls in Chattanooga,