Water Line

A great new extension to time-distance curriculum on Desmos:

https://teacher.desmos.com/waterline/teacherguide#Tumbler

3 Act Template

Found this great template on Growing Exponentially. You can also grab it below:

@absvalteaching @ddmeyer @mr_stadel this one is better: https://t.co/0xklyInLIB
— Lisa Bejarano (@lisabej_manitou) April 1, 2014

Here is another link to the pdf (in case any of the above links expire).

3 Act Search Engine

Here is a fun tool developed by Robert Kaplinksy that searches great blogs and sites for lesson ideas:

http://robertkaplinsky.com/prbl-search-engine/

Also make sure to browse the sites he has chosen. The work happening there is top notch.

Session Summary April 2014

We covered the fast hands three act  and shared ideas and resources around time distance graphs.

We started with Dan Meyer's graphing stories and then talked about Desmos application function carnival. 

We also talked about how to use Logger Pro with the Vernier Motion Detector. This also led to a discussion of the physic's lesson on Flappy bird. 

We also shared my favorite new app reflector, which turns your phone or tablet into a portable document camera (and more).

We also shared some other resources, including Smart Test Prep and a fun scale factor lesson from Math lab called Blow'em up cartoons. 

Fast Clapping 3 Act

Fawn Nguyen posted this:

Good to know. "A new World's Fastest Clapper" http://t.co/FD44k7508N
— Fawn Nguyen (@fawnpnguyen) June 7, 2013

Mr. Kraft saw an opportunity for a three act: https://mrkraft.wikispaces.com/Fast+Clapper 


I reworked the video as an introduction to linear regression for the 8th and 9th grade CCSS.


You can download it here.