1. The Washington Monument
By: Cassie Garcia
Lorie Lane
Lorrisa Hales
Ashley Taylor
Started

2. Started Cornerstone laid: July 4, 1848.
Capstone set: December 6, 1884.
Dedicated: February 21, 1885.
Officially opened to the public: October 9, 1888.
Designed by Robert Mills.
Total cost of monument: $1,187,710.

3. Dimensions
Total height of monument: 555 feet, 5 1/8 inches ( meters).
Height from lobby to observation level: 500 feet or 50 stories ( meters).
Total weight of monument:90,854 tons
Total number of blocks in monument:36,491 . .

4. Materials
Exterior: White marble primarily from Baltimore, Maryland; a few blocks from Sheffield, Massachusetts.
Interior: Granite from Maine.

5. Interior Number of memorial stones in stairwell: 198.
Present elevator installed: 1998.
Present elevator cab installed: 2001.
Elevator ascent/descent time: 60 seconds/60 seconds.
Number of steps in stairwell: 896.

6. Administration
October 2, 1888: Congress appointed the War Department as the custodian to the Monument.
August 10, 1933: Washington Monument was transferred to the administrative control of the National Park Service.

7. Designed Started designed by Robert Mills in 1838
It rises more than 168 m (550 ft) above the city and is the largest masonry structure in the world.
The actual construction of the monument began in 1848 and was not completed until 1884

8. History Named after the first president, George Washington.
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Named after the first president, George Washington.
Once the world's tallest building
Today it remains the world's tallest free standing masonry structure
It’s the oldest out of the three presidential memorials here on the National Mall

9. BIBLIOGRAPHY
G. E. Kidder Smith. Looking at Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, ISBN LC NA200.S
Exterior view of Monument in silhouette, p131. discussion, p130.   Available at Amazon.com
Ernest and Kathleen Meredith, Fairfax, Virginia. Slide from photographers' collection. Kevin Matthews. The Great Buildings Collection on CD-ROM.
Artifice, ISBN — Available at Amazon.com   Find books about Washington Monument

10. Search the RIBA architecture library catalog for more references on Washington Monument  
Web ResourcesLinks on Washington Monument
Technical Problems: NACC survey lodge

12. Role Student Task TEAM PAGE Team Number: __ Reader Historian Analyst
Web Quest
Role
Student
Task
Reader
Overview and
Content of the Presentation
Historian
History of the
Building
Analyst
Geometric Analysis of the
Bibliographer
Bibliography of the Project
Introduction
Task
Process
Resources
Evaluation
Conclusion
Contact Info

13. Mathematical Report Rubric
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Introduction
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too long
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Research
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main theme
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understandable
easy to
follow sequence
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Data and figure
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14. Oral Presentation Rubric
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Average
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Point
Self
Assessment
Teacher
Content
Little
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Speech is clear &
focused 4
Organization
Effective beginn, main, end
Language
Words are specific &
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Delivery
Good eye contact,
speed,
volume
Introduction
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15. Project Scoring System
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Introduction
Task
Name
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Math Report Score
Speech Score
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Cassie 97 99 98
Lorie
Lorrisa
Ashley
Process
Resources
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Conclusion
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