The Holley Middle School/High School Geometry in Construction class worked on May 18 and 19 to install the storage barn they built for Homesteads for Hope (H4H). They transported their “work in progress” to H4H, located on Manitou Road in Ogden, and students installed the barn that will be used to store gardening tools and equipment.
Holley math teacher Russ Albright and technology teacher Dylan Sharpe co-teach Geometry in Construction, with students rotating between math days and building days each week. There are 13 students in this year’s class, with the majority in tenth grade. The class helps students learn how math concepts can be applied to real-world problems to create solutions. Students combined their math and construction skills to build the 16’ x 32’ storage barn for H4H this year.
In the fall, students watched YouTube videos about the H4H farm so they could better understand this organization. Building the storage barn for gardening equipment and tools will help the farm with its gardening operations. H4H is a non-profit community farm that is all-inclusive and provides a place where young adults of all abilities can learn, work, live and grow.
Students planned for the project by working on a scale model of the barn. The barn was staged on a specially built platform at school before it was dismantled and transported to H4H to be installed permanently. This is the fourth barn that Holley students have built on the H4H property in the last few years.
The skills students learn in this class will be carried with them beyond high school to be used in future jobs or to make home repairs. “Students enjoy this class because they can see the real-world application of math,” said Albright. “Many students who don’t traditionally perform well in math class are performing much better in this class. Geometry in Construction students learn how geometric concepts are used in the construction field, which gives them a better understanding of these concepts. This knowledge helps them answer questions on the Regents exam in June.” Regardless of how students perform on any geometry test, they leave class feeling proud of completing a community service project that helps others.
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