Park Design Assignment

General Rules

• There are two to three people on each park team. Each park team produces one park design.
• Each park design may be either a detailed map or a three dimensional relief of the park.
• Each park needs to have a sports area (any sport or combination), a small zoo area, and a botanical area, including two crossing fountains shooting water in a parabolic arch. Include one to two additional areas of your own choosing.
• At least one path needs to be defined by a third level quadratic and one by a fourth level. For example, a third level would be ax³ + bx² + cx +d
• Each park needs to be based on interviews with at least five people (teachers, students, parents, siblings, etc.) to determine what should be in your park. You might have a preliminary interview with a few people to determine what your additional area is.
• In additional to the fountain parabola and quadratic path, have two more designs based on mathematical principals.
• Each parks must have one additional feature that relate to the theme of your park but not necessarily relate to mathematics.
• Each park design must be neat and well organized.
• A computer-written bibliography (with at least three entries) MUST to be included with each park design. I will verify the sources. If there is no bibliography, there will be no grade for the project.
• Computer lab time will be scheduled throughout the semester. The schedule is shown on the calendar.
• All members of the project will earn the same grade. Please talk with me if a member of the team is not contributing.
• You need to go through a planning process,. Some of the scores below are based on this process.

Scoring

• Outline for park development (due Monday, 20 September 2004): _________/20 points
• List of all park participants (due Monday, 20 September 2004): _________/ 5 points
• Interview Results ( 4 Oct 04) _________/40 points
• List of main sections of park, with four sentence description

for each section, including where formulas are used (1 Nov 04) _________/30 points

• List of participants on park (14/15 December 2004): _________/ 5 points
• Park Name (14/15 Dec): _________/10 points
• Neatness (14/15 Dec): _________/40 points
• Organization (14/15 Dec): _________/40 points
• Four park sections well defined (14/15 Dec): _________/40 points
• Fountains (14/15 Dec): _________/30 points
• Path (14/15 Dec): _________/20 points
• Two additional, non-math, features (14/15 Dec): _________/20 points
• Bibliography (14/15 Dec): _________/go/no go