Mathsational

This year I've taken on the #teach180 challenge.  The challenge is to post one tweet per day showing a glimpse inside your classroom.  I'm also putting the tweets together in a biweekly blog so that I can share the resources that I'm tweeting about. Day 111:  Today was another one of our weekly quizzes. Testing today #teach180 . Just saw one kid do a fist pump, so it must be going well :) pic.twitter.com/IKFbB6q1pt — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 23, 2017 Day 112:  Today my geometry students finished up their transformations project using  +OZOBOT s.  The kids cheered as the bots successfully completed their courses :) Wrapping up our #geometrychat @OZOBOT transformations project today #teach180 . Thanks to MTEF @ManheimTownship pic.twitter.com/FqHEjt4yH5 — Jennifer Abel (@abel_jennifer) February 24, 2017 Day 113:  Today my algebra 2 classes used ExploreLearning's Gizmo to practice graphing and writing equations of circl...

I borrowed this lesson from John Stevens .  As a quick side note, this is what I love about the MTBoS community on Twitter.  You build a network of creative educators from literally all over the world and your own lessons improve because of the sharing that happens. Now, my students and I live in central Pennsylvania.  We have the occasional earthquakes, but they are they type that only the most observant people even notice.   Here is a link to our most recent earthquake. This is  John's original lesson.  On his page, you will find links to his Slides presentation, lesson plan, and student handout as well as notes about how he implemented the lesson. I started with showing a San Andreas movie trailer. I asked if anyone had seen the movie.  I asked is any of them felt the earthquake that we had the previous summer.  These questions lead to some lively conversation. I showed them some maps from the USGS website that show intensity in ...