Description
What Will I Learn?
- Creativity
- Critical thinking
- Project-Based Learning
About Course
Join Teacher Jasmine and create Pixel Art Fractions! Design a pixel art image then break down the colors into fractions, discuss number patterns; unit fractions, then build the designs in Minecraft.
Next Generation Standards Covered
- 3.NF.A.1: Develop an understanding of fractions as numbers. Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a part of size 1/b. (Grade 3 expectations in this domain are limited to fractions with denominators 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8.)
Debrief
- What happens when you added all the colors up, was there a pattern with any other numbers?
- How did the fractions help explain how much of each color you needed?
Guiding ideas
- Big Idea: “Fractions are Parts of a Whole.”
Student activities
- Design a pixel art image then break down the colors into fractions, discuss number patterns; unit fractions, then build the designs in Minecraft.
Performance expectations
The student should be able to:
- Design an original piece of pixel art.
- Break down their pixel art into colors and write them as fractions.
- Transform a peer’s pixel art by using the same fractions of colors in a new design.
- Document their models with pictures in their portfolios.
- Explain number patterns in fractions, such as “a/a=1, or say “if I add up all the numbers it equals the whole.”
- Organize fractions by size using the same denominators. 3.NBT.3D
Age level
- 8 – 10 years old
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.