Geometry is one of my favorite units to teach. In this unit, there are so many ways to create lessons, activities, and projects that are easily aligned to the real world. I’m not saying that is not the case for other units but I do have to get a little creative when we start working… Read More Area of Shapes Scavenger Hunt via Google Slides
HyperDocs are becoming one of my favorite things in education. It is such an amazing tool to incorporate technology in a purposeful way that promotes student learning and engagement. One of the things that I love about the HyperDoc model is that there is a focus on creating digital lessons that go through various stages… Read More Road Trippin’: A Ratios & Proportions HyperDoc
HyperDocs are quickly becoming one of my favorite things in education. As the HyperDocs website states: HyperDocs, a transformative, interactive Google Doc replacing the worksheet method of delivering instruction, is the ultimate change agent in the blended learning classroom. As a major blended learning classroom advocate, I am finding that HyperDocs are becoming a way… Read More Systems of Equations HyperDoc: Comparing Cell Phone Plans
Within our AVID class, my students spend a lot of time researching and learning about colleges and universities. They’ve given speeches, written essays, and researched multiple colleges in the last two years that I have had them in my classroom. Recently, I wanted them to create a college pennant, which is a common activity that… Read More College Pennants via Google Drawings
A couple of weeks ago, myself and a colleague completed our first Digital BreakoutEdu. Click HERE to read about it. It was a great success – the students loved it. More importantly, they were able to use critical thinking skills to solve problems from our content standards. It’s was the best of both worlds! As… Read More Digital BreakoutEdu: The Secret Stockbroker Society
PBL Beginnings At the end of the last school year, our principal purchased the “PBL Starter Kit” for each teacher. Although my case study for my master’s degree program was on PBL, I found that there were many great ideas within this book that I could easily implement throughout the school year. In fact,… Read More Out of My PBL Comfort Zone: The Stock Market Game
Recently, I read some interesting articles about offices that were creating post-it murals to cover their walls. Click HERE or HERE to see the offices. As I looked at these offices, I knew that there was a math project within these decorations. Several math concepts came to mind, such as measurement, scale, and converting between… Read More Post-It Project (Fractions, Decimals, Percent, Scale, & More!)
My students just completed one of my FAVORITE project of the year – Statistics & Probability Survey Project! In this project, students create a survey question and survey 50 students on campus. They gather, organize and interpret their data into a final project. The students love this project! In this project, students will be able… Read More Statistics & Probability Survey Project
