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Final Lesson Plan: Bridge Discovery
Album Description
Quadratic Functions and the World Around YOU
Grade Level: Algebra I/Algebra II
Topic: Linear and Quadratic Functions
Environment: This is written for a virtual classroom but can be adjusted for in person learning using 1-1 devices, computer labs or instructor projector and print outs.
Objective: Students will engage in a multiphase unit on quadratic functions. The activities will provide students to make connections between math and their world. They will also be given the opportunity to collaborate with their peers and share their findings through a presentation.
Note: the purpose of primary sources here are to open the student’s eyes to first-hand accounts surrounding construction and mathematics. Additionally, they will be able to explore the historical use of these techniques direct from the source. Including actual images showcasing the use of mathematics students are studying will be a clear and concise way of showing them just how much purpose the topic has. It’s not just something in a textbook anymore!
Activity 1: What do you NOTICE? What do you WONDER?
Use the following picture as an introduction to the unit on linear and/or quadratic functions. Students can share their thoughts on the whiteboard and chat in the chat box.
Students will be asked to share at least one item under NOTICE and one under WONDER. The emphasis here is that there is no wrong answer. Using this as an opener I want all students to feel included and comfortable to participate.
https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1266.photos/?sp=1
Key words to touch on: vertex, increasing, decreasing, perpendicular, parallel, reflection, transformation, opening down
Activity 2: Guess Who?
Use the following activity once the mathematical concepts of quadratics have been covered.
1. Pair students up in breakout rooms
2. Provide the five images to both students
3. Students will take turns selecting an image (without telling the other student) and then using mathematical words (key word examples from activity 1) to get them to guess the bridge they chose
3. Monitor each breakout room to ensure participation and support where needed
https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1266.photos/?sp=4
https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ny1583.photos/?sp=1
https://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mt0457.photos/?sp=2
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017650157/
https://www.loc.gov/item/2016800479/
Activity 3: Final Activity – Research and Present
Students will choose one of the five bridge images from activity 2. Then do the following:
- Investigate one of the images from activity 2, do this through the Library of Congress link provided
- Create a PowerPoint slide to present during live class, include the following on your slide
- image of the bridge
- location of the bridge including the year
- research the cost associated with building this structure
- share at least one interesting fact you found while researching
- how does this bridge compare to those built today?
- Students will then take 3- 5 minutes at the beginning of each class to share their findings
1. View to the southwest - Boonville Bridge, Spanning Missouri River at U.S. Route 40 & State Routes 5 & 87, Boonville, Cooper County, MO
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1266.photos/?sp=1
Reference note
Contributor Names: Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Missouri Highway & Transportation Department, Bridge Division
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Schmitz, Shaun, photographer
Bushko, Steven, photographer
Austin, David, historian
Created / Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
Subject Headings: - bridges
- Missouri -- Cooper County -- Boonville
- Missouri -- Howard County -- New Franklin
Notes: - Significance: The Boonville Bridge is a monumental, multiple-span structure of six steel truss spans and ten concrete approach spans, with an overall length of 2,666'. Constructed during the earliest years of the Missouri State Highway Department, the bridge was one of the first major links in Missouri's developing transportation system. The bridge served simultaneously as part of U.S. Route 40, State Routes 5 and 87, and the National Old Trails Highway, while having a positive impact on the economic development of central Missouri.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N808
- Survey number: HAER MO-80
- Building/structure dates: 1922- 1924 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1937- 1938 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
4. South approach, piers, and truss spans, view to the north - Boonville Bridge, Spanning Missouri River at U.S. Route 40 & State Routes 5 & 87, Boonville, Cooper County, MO
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mo1266.photos/?sp=4
Reference note
Contributor Names: Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Missouri Highway & Transportation Department, Bridge Division
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Schmitz, Shaun, photographer
Bushko, Steven, photographer
Austin, David, historian
Created / Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
Subject Headings: - bridges
- Missouri -- Cooper County -- Boonville
- Missouri -- Howard County -- New Franklin
Notes: - Significance: The Boonville Bridge is a monumental, multiple-span structure of six steel truss spans and ten concrete approach spans, with an overall length of 2,666'. Constructed during the earliest years of the Missouri State Highway Department, the bridge was one of the first major links in Missouri's developing transportation system. The bridge served simultaneously as part of U.S. Route 40, State Routes 5 and 87, and the National Old Trails Highway, while having a positive impact on the economic development of central Missouri.
- Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N808
- Survey number: HAER MO-80
- Building/structure dates: 1922- 1924 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: 1937- 1938 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: 1950 Subsequent Work
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
1. View looking north - Central Park Bridges, Bridge No. 24, Central Park, Southwest of Reservoir, New York County, NY
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.ny1583.photos/?sp=1
Reference note
Contributor Names: Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Vaux, Calvert
Mould, Jacob Wrey
Lowe, Jet, photographer
Created / Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
Subject Headings: - bridges
- New York -- New York County
Notes: - Survey number: HAER NY-192
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000538
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
THREE-QUARTER VIEW WITH FENCE; EAST SIDE; VIEW TO WEST-NORTHWEST. - Ten Mile Creek Bridge, Spanning Ten Mile Creek at Williams Street, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/hhh.mt0457.photos/?sp=2
Reference note
Contributor Names: Historic American Engineering Record, creator
King Bridge Company, builder
Kirkendall, Hugh, masonry abutments & grade
Padilla, Mary, transmitter
Created / Published: Documentation compiled after 1968
Subject Headings: - bridges
- Montana -- Lewis And Clark County -- Helena
Notes: - Survey number: HAER MT-127
- Building/structure dates: 1894-1895 Initial Construction
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Menai Straits Suspension Bridge
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017650157/
Reference note
Created / Published: [ca. 1890-1906]
Subject Headings: - Suspension bridges
- Menai Suspension Bridge (Wales)
- Great Britain--Wales--Bangor
Genre: Photochrom prints--Color
Notes: - Title from item.
- Title in Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905: "Wales. Bangor. Menai Suspension Bridge."
- Print no. "10350."
- Gift; Detroit Publishing Company; (PR 13 CN 1906:42865)
- More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz
- Forms part of: Photochrom Print Collection.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: ppmsca 52912 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.52912
Suspension bridge, Cincinnati, Ohio
Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2016800479/
Reference note
Contributor Names: Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
Created / Published: c1907.
Subject Headings: - Bridges
- Side wheelers
- United States--Ohio--Cincinnati
Genre: Dry plate negatives
Notes: - Corresponding glass transparency (with same series code) available on videodisc frame 1A-30874.
- "Island Queen, the Coney Island Co." on side wheeler.
- "G 4296" on negative and transparency.
- Detroit Publishing Co. no. 070073.
- Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id: det 4a22289 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/det.4a22289