In chapter five the book included directories to publish student work. I have not had much extra free time to sit and try some of these websites out. I do a children's book project with my Algebra I class that I would like to possibly publish. Do you have any ideas or suggestions?
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That sounds interesting. What do you put into the book? Do you think that your students could do this as a project with other schools?
I explored the following writing sites in chapter five and found them helpful:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/index.htm
http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/writers/home.html
http://writing2.richmond.edu/writing/wweb.html
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomak2.htm
Thanks Cheryl. I will check out those sites, especially considering I will be starting the book project soon. Chapter six deals with ratios and proportions in my Algebra I course. For this project I start off reading "If You Hopped Like a Frog," to the class. I use it as an introduction to the section. The students then complete a work sheet where they are computing different proportions included in the story. As a culiminating activity they have to take the information that they learn in this chapter and create their own children's book. Last year was the first time I tried it and the kids went above and beyond what I had expected. I would love to take it a step further and look into having them published, even if it is just on the Internet. It would give the students more motivation for completing the assignment in addition to giving them something to show others.
Your description reminds me of the project a math teacher in our cluster did. Maybe you could find something in this that would be helpful in your project. He had the students make origami frogs and each class participated in a frog jumping contest. The students measured the distances, averaged them, and compared them to other classes. I had the students read "The Jumping Frog of Calavaras County by Mark Twain." A fun time was had by all. Students really like those interactive activities! Good Luck! (:
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