Are you ready to work for Pixar? To Infinity and Beyond is a technology-based math activity in which students interact with scenes from the famous Pixar movie, Toy Story. During this activity, students will be using their math skills such as translation, rotation, and scaling, to reconstruct scenes from the movie, in order to get approval from the director. Once the scene has been approved, the students can continue their learning, by answering the challenge questions after each section.
Attached below: Lesson Plan, and Student Worksheet
This lesson aligns with the the Common Core State Standards, the ITSE Standards, and the Math Practices:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.A.1 (A.B.C.) – Verify experimentally the properties of rotations, reflections, and translations: (A) Lines are taken to lines, and line segments to line segments of the same length. (B) Angles are taken to angles of the same measure. (C) Parallel lines are taken to parallel lines.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.8.G.A.2 – Understand that a two-dimensional figure is congruent to another if the second can be obtained from the first by a sequence of rotations, reflections, and translations; given two congruent figures, describe a sequence that exhibits the congruence between them.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 – Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 – Model with mathematics.
ISTE (3) Knowledge Constructor – Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produced creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
ISTE (6) Creative Communicator – Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.