Great Smoky Mountain NP Math Activity: Rate, D=RT, Proportional Reasoning

There are 3 lessons in this bundle. All of these lessons incorporate Great Smoky Mountain National Park and real data and trails. This is a great activity if you are traveling to this park or create a virtual trip in your classroom. The activity's include hiking in GSMNP, driving in the park, and a board game with a variety's of questions all applied to the park.

Hiking in GSMNP

This activity incorporates the following skills:

· Converting minutes to hours and hours to minutes

· Unit rate

· Graphing and Interpreting

· Unit Rate

· D=RT

· Real world application

· Proportional Reasoning

Calculating Distance

This activity incorporates the following skills:

· Converting minutes to hours and hours to minutes

· Unit rate

· Unit Rate

· D=RT

· Adding and Subtracting Decimals

· Percents (find the missing parts)

· Real world application

· Proportional Reasoning

· Geography

GSMNP Board Game

- Topics Covered

o Ratios, rates, percent's (part of a whole and part of a part), proportional relationships, d=rt, converting time, converting units in real world

- The activity includes an answer key. In order to read the answers you may need to teach the students how to find their answers

In your group take turns flipping a question card then answering the question. If your answer is correct, roll the die and move forward that many spaces. The first person to the end wins.

- If you land on the bridge, you either go up or down depend on which side you land on.

- Use an object such as a lego, eraser, dime, or piece pf paper to be your place marker.