Suiting Up

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

Subject Area

English Language Arts
Mathematics

Grade(s)

9, 10, 11, 12

Overview

Humans thrive and survive within a narrow range of air pressures. When air pressures are out of this range, we have more physical problems. What happens when humans go into space? How have engineers made it possible to survive when air pressure approaches zero?

This informational material will relate the precalculus concept of limits of functions using a real-world issue--engineering astronaut spacesuits. There are embedded videos within the text. 

English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 11

ELA21.11.8

Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.

UP:ELA21.11.8

Vocabulary

  • Academic disciplines
  • Domain-specific vocabulary
  • Content organization

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
  • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
  • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 12

ELA21.12.8

Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from science, social studies, and other academic disciplines and explain how those disciplines treat domain-specific vocabulary and content and organize information.

UP:ELA21.12.8

Vocabulary

  • Academic disciplines
  • Domain-specific vocabulary
  • Content organization

Knowledge

Students know:
  • Strategies to read, analyze, and evaluate texts from various academic disciplines.
  • Content-specific text will often include a particular structure and domain-specific vocabulary.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine the use of domain-specific vocabulary.
  • Read, analyze, and evaluate texts from subjects other than English language arts to determine how the academic discipline organizes content.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Different academic disciplines may utilize different vocabulary.
  • Different academic disciplines may arrange content in particular organizational styles.
Mathematics (2019) Grade(s): 09-12 - Precalculus

MA19.PRE.7

Determine numerically, algebraically, and graphically the limits of functions at specific values and at infinity.

UP:MA19.PRE.7

Vocabulary

  • Limit
  • Convergent
  • Divergent
  • Continuous function
  • Discontinuous function
  • Discontinuity (infinite, jump, removable)

Knowledge

Students know:
  • How to graph the families of functions.
  • How to factor, simplify, and rationalize functions.
  • How to evaluate functions at a given input value.

Skills

Students are able to:
  • Identify continuity and discontinuity (if discontinuous, identify the type).
  • Calculate limits.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • Functions have various types of continuity and discontinuity.
  • That limits can be determined numerically, graphically, and algebraically.
  • converging means that a limit exists, while diverging means that a limit does not exist.

Resource Provider

Other

License Type

CUSTOM

Resource Provider other

CK-12
https://www.ck12.org/c/calculus/concept-of-limit/rwa/Suiting-Up/?referrer=conce…

Custom License Type (URL)

https://www.ck12info.org/terms-of-use/

Owner (Author)

habradley
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