Plan One

Plan Two

Plan Three

-This was easier to understand at first because they asked us to work with perimeter. Perimeter is easier to visualize. Maybe it was easier because the other question was harder than this question. We had already learned so much from the other question.
-We planned to use grid paper because that is an easy way to find out the perimeter of the land and also the area of the lake.
-I am going to have to come up with a plan to visualize the 14 paths. Maybe we will color them different colors so that we can keep track. There seems to be a lot right now.
-When we were planning the perimeter we know that this perimeter can take any shape it does not have to be rectangular or square although those would be the easiest. A triangle would also be easy to calculate.
-We are going to plan the shape of the park first and then put in the lake.
-One question that we have is do we have to have 14 separate paths or could they join to become one main path with several short paths coming off of the main path. We want to keep it like a park.
-We soon discovered that all of the paths did not have to be the same length. Actually the shorter the better. We knew that all of the areas of the park had to be accessable but couldn't that be done with one path to each side that way we would only have 4 main paths the short paths off of these main paths.
-Another question that we have is about the litter bins. How could we go about using fewer than 11 bins. Could a path or several paths share a bin?

Thoughts that were discussed with our groups as we actually planned our environmental park

-We decided to make several plans but we all agreed that we should establish the shape of the park first because this will set the shape for the paths.
-We started with the paths first and then we realized that all of our plans took the same outline shape of a square. We stopped at this point because we began to wonder if it had to have the shape of a square.
-We did not want to go to a scale drawing first because it was important for us to just draw as many plans as we could so that we really understood the quesiton.
-We wanted to draw a squiggle outline for the park but we did not know how to calculate the perimeter this way. We then planned to take a string that was 2400km long (to scale of course) and then this string could be the perimeter
- We decided to place the garbage cans first and then we joined them up with paths. We like to do it this way because it set out the plan.
-We decided to make lots of loops because we didn't want to have sharp turns. When we started looping the many paths, it became confusing and so be planned to start with main paths and then join them with shorter paths.
-As we changed our plans, the park became much better. Like our other question, each time we worked on it we came up with a new plan. We could have gone on forever.

Thoughts about our plans

Plan One:
We decided that we would like to make the perimeter of our park a square and that each side would measure 600m in length. We wanted to design a park that was very clean and well planned not too many paths. We have few paths that let you enter and leave the park and we were able to set 11 litter bins around the park. We have our lake in the middle of the park and one of our paths goes around the lake. Because this circular path has garbage cans on it and also because all of the paths join, we were able to share the litter bins with the paths. We decided to leave a lot of empty spaces between the paths where we will plant trees so that some day you won't be able to see the paths when the trees grow up. This way it will be a park. Our paths are planned to be 2 meters in width. We decided this by actually standing side by side and holding our arms out to plan for the bikes that we would be on the paths.

Plan Two:
We decided to make our park irregular in shape so we had to get out a piece of string and then set the scale for the length of the string so that we could fit it on to the grid paper. We set the scale at 1cm=100km. We measured the string out and then we set it on the paper and we had a squiggle perimeter. Then we decided that we did not want to have 14 separate paths and so we made one path around the lake and then we made to other paths go off of this main one. We placed the garbage cans so that they could be shared by the paths. Although we are not finished we have only 4 garbage cans so far and they are each shared by 3 paths each.

Plan Three:
We knew that there were not supposed to be sharp turns and so we decided to make corners where the bikers, walkers and rollerbladers would have to come to a stop before they started on a new path. This way the people would be safer because they would have to slow down. We would not plant trees at the intersections so that it would be safe to see. We have not decided where to put the litter bins but we think that the corners would be the best places because this would also help people to stop.

Plan Four:
We decided to make the perimeter of the park a rectangle so that we could have some of the paths longer than others. We have all of our paths straight so they would connect. This way they could get around the lake in the middle of the park. We also decided to make the lake an irregular shape. It was easy to figure out the area of the lake because we used a scale and grid paper. We decided to place the litter bins on paths that could share.

Plan Five:
We decided to make our park a circular park. We did not know how to find out the perimeter of a circle and so we had to try to find many different ways. We asked our teacher but the formula that she gave us did not make sense to us and so we talked to the group that used the string and that seemed to make more sense to us. After we figured out how long the string had to be to measure 2400m, we just laid our string down on the paper in the shape of a circle. Then we really wanted to have our paths "swooping" and so we made them wrap around each other. This looked like a fun bike and walking park to us because each path was an adventure. We tried to make it so that each path was different. We decided to place our litter bins in the center of the park so that it would not interfere with the biking and the walking. Most of the time when you are biking or walking you do not have a lot of garbage and therefore you don't need a lot of litter bins. We wanted to make the lake a different shape and we planned this after when we put it on the grid paper.

Plan Six:
We decided to make our park very simple with very few paths. Our paths connect with each other and go around the lake in the middle of the park. Our paths are straight and they give you access to the outer edge of the park. Although it doesn't look like it, we have 14 paths because they join with others.

Plan Seven:
We wanted to make our park the shape of an octagon. We have eight sides to our park and each of the sides is the same size 300 m. This was easy for us to calculate. We decided to make the lake an odd shape as well. We are not sure of the scale of this as we are just at the planning and drawing stage. We wanted to make all of our paths as individual paths so we put in all of the 14 paths. Even though they do cross, they are counted as one path. We thought that this park would be a place where you could exercise and get a real workout because some of the paths are long.

Plan Eight:
We decided that we only wanted half of the park to have bike and walking paths. This way it will be a true environmental park. We have planned a path all around the park so that if you want to go around the park on the outside edge you could. There are only 4 entry points to the park but at each of these points there sometimes are two paths. All of the litter bins are spread around the outside of the park.