Patrick's Adventure - Point-Slope Form Activity

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Overall Theme of the Video: During Patrick's Adventure students will work in groups of 2 to create a map of Patrick's travel around his town.  After they have plotted the points to create the path, they will work together to develop the equations that represents the roads of the town.  This is a great activity to review how to calculate a linear equation from two points plus the students enjoy getting up and developing a map of Patrick's town!

Implementation of Activity: When doing this activity within my class I divided the students into groups of two. Each group was given a poster-sized grid paper to develop Patrick's path around town for his driver's test. I laminated this grid paper and the students used dry-erase markers to create the path. We hung the posters around the room so each group could compare their maps with other groups. The students worked together in their groups to figure out the equation of the path then plotted it on the poster. Then they labeled the equation on each line they developed from the two points.

Here is a YouTube link on suggestions to implement this product within your class:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIJWldHjMMI