Name: Date:

Instruction: Do the following activity in a Short Bond Paper, Arial, 12.

Find a real-life parabola and do the following:
1. Take a selfie with it!
2. Take another picture of the parabola, so it can be used on a coordinate plane.
3. Use Desmos (online graphing calculator) to graph your parabola.
4. Explain what your parabola is and where you found it.
5. Explain how we use parabolas in real-life applications.

SCORING RUBRIC

Exemplary Satisfactory Developing

Criteria Rating
10 9 8
The work is
The work appears
presented in a The work is
sloppy and
neat, clear, presented in an
Neatness/ unorganized. It is
organized organization
Organization hard to know what
fashion fashion or easy to
information
that is easy to read, but not both.
goes together.
read.

Picture of you
with a Two items are
One item is
parabola missing:
missing: parabola,
Parabola Selfie on your graph, parabola, you, what
you, what it is, or
state what it it is, or
location.
is, and location
location.

Fully and
eloquently
Explains
articulates
mathematical
mathematical Clearly
concepts without
Mathematical concepts. articulates
difficulty, but
Concepts Develops mathematical
expresses ideas in
connections concepts. rudimentary
among
form.
mathematical
concepts

Speaks clearly
and effectively Speaks clearly with
Oral Speaks clearly
in a no grammatical
Communication and effectively.
sophisticated errors
manner.

TOTAL