Destination Mars – 7483
Summary NASA’s Digital Learning Network at the Goddard Space Center presented a series of challenges in a project called Destination: Mars. The students were challenged …
CategoryMath
#InstaAnthropomorphicQuads – 8169
Summary This lesson is designed to endear students with an increased level of relativity to the unique properties of each type of quadrilateral, by asking …
How would you balance the US Federal Budget? – 8362
Summary President Obama has asked us to help him with the budget for the Federal Government for the year 2013. Though our many SchoolSpace discussion …
Hero Tales: Collaborative Story and Movie Creation – 8082
Beth Berry and Jen Perego, Deep Run High School Summary Students in English class research a “hometown hero” story and rewrite that story in “code …
Mine Is Bigger Than Yours
Image from the Scale of the Universe Summary Students visited on the website Scale of the Universe to show how Scientific notation was is used and …
Express This, Equate That… What’s the Difference?
Summary Students will work individually to research and then in small groups to collaborate and discover the difference between an expression and an equation. Research …
Pathway to College – 8361
Summary Students were taught how to model a project with a mathematical graph and find important information from it – called a critical path. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_path_method …
Matter Cooking Show -7481
Summary In this cross-curricular lesson driven by an authentic task, students were able to explore the changes of matter, identify ways to gather information, and …
Shark Tank – 7982
Summary This project was inspired by the show “Shark Tank” in which entrepreneurs in the early stages of their company present their product to a …
March Madness Math – 8009
Summary This project will introduce students to colleges in the A10 and ACC basketball conferences. Students will follow the basketball teams up to the Final …