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Enduring Understanding: Identify discrete facts or skills to focus on larger concepts, principles, or processes. They are transferable - applicable to new situations within or beyond the subject. Mathematical models are used to develop solutions to real-world problems. Quadratic functions can be used to model motion. Essential Questions: Identify several open-ended questions to provoke inquiry about the core ideas for the lesson. They are grade-level appropriate questions that prompt intellectual exploration of a topic. How can quadratic functions be used to model real-world problems and solutions? How does STEM professional use quadratic functions? Student Outcomes: Identify the transferable knowledge and skills that students should understand and be able to do when the lesson is completed. Outcomes must align with but not limited to Maryland State Curriculum and/or national standards. Students will be able to: graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph by hand. graph quadratic functions and show intercepts, maxima, and minima. Product, Process, Action, Performance, etc.: Identify what students will produce to demonstrate that they have met the challenge, learned content, and employed 21st century skills. Additionally, identify the audience they will present what they have produced to. Students will work in collaborative teams to collect data on the projectile motion of a launched object to gain understanding on how a quadratic function is described algebraically and what it means. Students will have the goal of being able to describe what a vertex is, what zeros or roots are, and how they play a role in the importance of a quadratic function. Audience: Peers Experts / Practitioners Teacher(s) School Community Other______ Standards Addressed in the Unit: Identify the Maryland State Curriculum Standards addressed in the unit. Domain: Quadratic Functions and Modeling Cluster Statement: Analyze functions using different representations. Standard: F.IF.7 Graph functions expressed symbolically and show key features of the graph, by hand in simple cases and using technology for more complicated cases.★ a. Graph linear and quadratic functions and show intercepts, maxima, and minima. Suggested Materials and Resources: Identify materials needed to complete the unit. This includes but is not limited to websites, equipment, PowerPoints, rubrics, worksheets, and answer keys. Equipment: rubber bands ruler protractor