Excellent strategy for demonstrating student understanding.

1. RAFT
Standard: G.G.22 – Find and use measures of perimeter, circumference, and area of common geometric figures such as
parallelograms, trapezoids, circles, and triangles.
Objective: When given the dimensions of 5 common geometric shapes, students will accurately calculate the perimeter and area
(and circumference, if appropriate) of 4 of them shapes, by the end of the lesson.
Directions: Choose one of the RAFT assignments to write.
Role
Audience
Format
Topic
Casting director
Actors or Models
Audition advertisement
Measurements required of
your models to meet certain
area, perimeters, and
circumference needs.
Architect
Homeowners
Proposal with blue
prints
Description of plan for
different shaped windows and
the amount of materials they
will require.
Toy designer
Focus group of kids
Plans for toys
Descriptions and dimensions of
4 differently shaped toys
Examples: RAFT assignments for other various content areas
Role
Audience
Format
Topic
Newspaper Reporter
Readers in the 1870s
Obituary
Qualities of General Custer
Lawyer
US Supreme Court
Appeal Speech
Dred Scott decision
Abraham Lincoln
Dear Abby
Advice Column
Problems with generals
Frontier Woman
Self
Diary
Hardships of the west
Chemist
Chemical company
Instructions
Combinations to avoid
Wheat Thin
Other Wheat Thins
Travel Guide
Plant
Sun
Thank-You note
Journey through the digestive
system
Sun’s role in plant growth
Lungs
Cigarettes
Official Complaint
Effects of smoking
Comma
9th Grade students
Official Complaint
How it is misused
Exponent
Jury
Instructions to Jury
Laws of exponents