Proportions & Scale Project Based Learning Lost City Mystery Scale Map Drawings

Lost City Math Project (PBL). Proportion Map Activity. Using a Map Scale to Calculate Distances Using Proportional Reasoning.

In this engaging and educational activity, students embark on a journey to discover the Lost City, a hidden city described in an ancient book. The activity is designed to help students understand and apply concepts of scale and distance in a fun and imaginative way. They have to find the missing values using proportions.

It includes 10 problems to calculate the map distances and 10 problems to calculate real-life distances using the map scale.

Students are provided with a narrative that describes ten key locations in the Lost City and their distances from each other. They are then tasked with creating their own unique map of the city using these distances, given a ruler with ancient units, and the map scale.

The distances are given in three unique units of length created specifically for this activity: Glyphsteps (small distances), Templestrides (medium distances), and Mysticleaps (large distances).

The activity encourages creativity as there are countless ways to draw the map. After creating their maps, students measure distances on their maps and calculate the corresponding real-life distances.

What is wonderful about it?

This project gives your students the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills through meeting challenges, and keeps students engaged. They can work at their own pace and don't even realize they are learning.

This resource includes:

- The digital version in Google Slides™.

- The editable PowerPoint™ version.

- The printable version in PDF.

- An example of a completed project.

- The Grading Rubric.

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