Q2 Interactive Investigations
Briefing
Do you have a subject that you or a classmate need help understanding? Use the following three resources to locate an interactive activity to help explain or support the subject, like the Virtual Manipulatives above. You can learn while you play!
Your teacher needs your help with getting some new students started. Your task is to find on-line interactive activities for the new students to use. You need one for math, reading and writing, and science.
Steps:
1. Go to Library of National Manipulatives and click on grades 6-8-Geometry-Lady Bug Maze. (If this is blocked, use "turtle pond" from NCTM Illuminations). Then try one or two others. Screen shot your maze.
a. After completing the Ladybug Maze, create your own maze in an excel spreadsheet. Choose a place for your creature to begin and end. Mark the two locations on the grid. Write step by step directions using (x,y) coordinates and exchange with your partner and complete the exercise, seeing if they are able to complete your path correctly. (If you want practice using coordinates, click this link to try parking a car using a grid and coordinate system. Can you do 3 of these on a first try?)
Be sure to include at least 4 changes in direction, making sure to list the vertices along the way.
Do you have a subject that you or a classmate need help understanding? Use the following three resources to locate an interactive activity to help explain or support the subject, like the Virtual Manipulatives above. You can learn while you play!
Your teacher needs your help with getting some new students started. Your task is to find on-line interactive activities for the new students to use. You need one for math, reading and writing, and science.
Steps:
1. Go to Library of National Manipulatives and click on grades 6-8-Geometry-Lady Bug Maze. (If this is blocked, use "turtle pond" from NCTM Illuminations). Then try one or two others. Screen shot your maze.
a. After completing the Ladybug Maze, create your own maze in an excel spreadsheet. Choose a place for your creature to begin and end. Mark the two locations on the grid. Write step by step directions using (x,y) coordinates and exchange with your partner and complete the exercise, seeing if they are able to complete your path correctly. (If you want practice using coordinates, click this link to try parking a car using a grid and coordinate system. Can you do 3 of these on a first try?)
Be sure to include at least 4 changes in direction, making sure to list the vertices along the way.
2. Go to Edheads- Science and Math Interactives and click on Choose an Activity
If you are in grades 7-9 click on Trauma. Your task is to stabilize a patient and determine why he passed out while driving.
If you are in grades 4-6 click on Weather at the bottom of the list. Click START and select the Predict the Weather option.
If you are in grades 10-12 choose the Crash Scene Investigation. Your task is to help the highway patrol and recreate a deadly crash by examining the evidence and calculating the forces. There are additional resources on the page to help with your investigation. Click on START when ready.
If you are in grades 2-5 choose Simple Machines and click on START. Learna bout simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed.
3. Now that you have experienced some interactives, dig a little deeper. Select a topic that you are studying in school (e.g. The Battle of Gettysburg, solar energy, scalene triangles, etc.). Use the SEARCH or KEYWORD boxes in each of the applications below to find resources that could support your learning. (NOTE: Illuminations is a MATH ONLY site, so do not choose it if your topic is not math specific).
Interactive Learning Sites for Education
Illuminations
PBS Learning Media
4. Write a brief review of each one above. Include the information below. Post your information and screen shots in the T12Q2 evidence document.
a. The name of the activity
b. URL of the activity
c. Topic you researched
d. Two or three sentences describing the activity with a screenshot of it
e. Two to four sentences telling why you recommend this activity and what you liked about it the most
Identify which would be the most useful to you in school. Write a sentence explaining why you liked that interactive.
Completing this Quest
Save your results in your documents folder and save to the shared drive in my folder, your hour. lastname.firstname.T12Q2
NETS
2. Communication and Collaboration
A. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media
5. Digital Citizenship
B. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
C. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
Common Core Math Standards
Step 1 Lady Bug Maze
CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.C.6 Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates
CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4 Model with mathematics.
Common Core Science Standard
Step 2 Weather Activity
MS-ESS 2-i
MS-ESS 2-m
ESS 2.D Weather & Climate
2. Communication and Collaboration
A. Interact, collaborate, and publish with peers, experts, or others employing a variety of digital environments and media
5. Digital Citizenship
B. Exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity
C. Demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning
Common Core Math Standards
Step 1 Lady Bug Maze
CCSS.Math.Content.6.NS.C.6 Understand a rational number as a point on the number line. Extend number line diagrams and coordinate axes familiar from previous grades to represent points on the line and in the plane with negative number coordinates
CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4 Model with mathematics.
Common Core Science Standard
Step 2 Weather Activity
MS-ESS 2-i
MS-ESS 2-m
ESS 2.D Weather & Climate