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The challenge

• Using what you know about area and perimeter, build a prototype of a desktop organizer

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• It must hold pencils, rulers, crayons and other school materials.
• It must meet the following criteria.

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Criteria

• It must be able to sit on top of my desk and still allow room for books and other desktop materials

Criteria

• It must have a perimeter of between 30 inches and 32 inches
• The area of the entire organizer must not exceed 50 square inches

Criteria

• There must be at least 5 compartments.

It should hold...

• 12 colored pencils
• sticky post-it notes
• 3x5 index cards
• 5 pencils, 2 glue sticks and 1 highlighter

Criteria continued

• Additional compartments to hold other supplies can be added
• The shape of the organizer must be rectangular but individual compartments may be any shape

Criteria continued...

• The outside of the organizer must be covered and decorated attractively

Materials

• small boxes of varying shapes
• cardboard and craft sticks
• decorative duct tape
• glue, tape, and tissue paper

Timeline:

• Ask, imagine, plan, design (today
• create, test and improve Monday and Tuesday
• Final presentation at end of class on Tuesday or beginning of class on Wednesday.