High Tech Hole in One Project
For the High Tech Hole in One project, everyone in the 10th grade split into teams to create golf courses that displayed an event in history of our choice. This project required us to use skills we've earned from each of our classes. In math, we built the golf courses, using various math skills. In history, we wrote essays about our historical topic. In multimedia, we designed logos for the project.
Building Process
For the building process, my group was responsible for creating our golf course, building five obstacles to go on the course, designing a costume for one of our group members to wear for the video, and constructing info boards for ten of the groups (since we were the humanities group). The building process was stressful because we kept running out of the paper we were using, and there was just barely enough time to finish everything. However, I am very proud of the costume we created for our group member because it looked almost identical to the photo of Toussaint L'Ouverture we were modeling the costume after.
Obstacles
Each person was required to design and build one obstacle that represented their historical event to go on the golf course. My obstacle was an arch made of wood with fabric attached to it. The fabric had three holes of different sizes cut out of it. My obstacle represented the social classes in Haiti during the Haitian Revolution. The largest hole represented the white population, because they had the most rights. The middle sized hole represented the mulatto population because they had some rights, but not as many as the whites. The smallest hole represented the slave population because they had no rights.
Humanities
For the humanities portion of this project, we studied and wrote essays on different events in history. My group chose the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian Revolution was a slave rebellion that turned into a fight for Haiti's independence from France. My group also was responsible for creating the Humanities info boards for exhibition. The boards included: the title of the group, the logo, hole number, a list of everyone's obstacles, their two abstracts, and a paragraph from each group member's essay.
Math
For this project, we used math to figure out the measurements and actually build our golf courses. We also calculated how to make a shot on our golf courses with the least amount of hits per possible. We did this by using different skills we have learned. I used equilateral triangles.
Multimedia
Before the project really started, we created a logo for the project. To do this, every person on my team designed a logo in Adobe Illustrator. From there, we hung all the logos in the room and did a gallery walk. We then voted on the top six logos, then narrowed it down to the top three. We sent the top three logos over to the other team, and they chose the final logo for the project.
Exhibition
Exhibition went really well! Everyone had a great time playing our golf courses and learning about world history and the math involved.