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This County Concerns assessment also includes:
Apply area concepts to help farmers and settle county disputes. Scholars use a given diagram and information about an insecticide spraying campaign to determine the monetary benefit to farmers. They then decide which of two counties has a larger area.
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Instructional Ideas
- Have the class work in pairs
- Provide pupils with an enlarged copy of the counties so they can dissect and recompose the figures into rectangles
Classroom Considerations
- Learners need to be able to calculate areas of different types of figures
Pros
- Pre-activity reviews concepts and skills necessary for the task
- Teacher guide includes rubric and complete answer key
Cons
- Although the resource provides a lot of information about pesticide spraying, it does not draw any actual conclusions
- The two parts of the task are disjointed and not related to each other