Thinkfinity
Michael Eyerly
Education Technology 422B
Big Math and Fries
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
Illuminations: Resources for Teaching Math
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=3170
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Levels: 6-8
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. This article addresses no NETS Standards #4: critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making and NETS Standards #3d.
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource us an excellent resource because it applies math skills by calculating calorie percentages and applies these skills with everyday nutrition choices. This resource provides students with an opportunity to calculate the percentage of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins with real life meals from McDonalds. This also provides students with an opportunity to apply math skills into calculating nutritional guidelines with their meals and what they eat. This is an excellent resource for student learning because they have to calculate the calorie percentages after being given how many grams of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins are in each meal and how many calories are in a gram of fat, protein, and carbohydrate. This let’s students mathematically analyze the food they eat and identify the relationship between nutrients and calories, while performing calculations, percentages, and conversions.
Title of the Web Resource
Heartifacts
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lesson.aspx?id=778
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade levels: 6-8
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. This article addresses no NETS standards, however this article addresses NETS #4: Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making.
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource is an excellent resource because it addresses the connection between science and health and the field of mathematics. Students learn about the heart and apply mathematics by calculating their beats per minute, hour, and even day. As well they are required to find the number of quarts of blood per hour pumped by the heart. They also evaluate how exercise influences the number of beats per minute and quarts of blood pumped per minute. This is an excellent resource for student learning because this requires critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making by collecting and analyzing the data gathered after the different activities. Students are required to create a problem and solve their problem within the assignment. They also have to use mental computation and explain their answer, which also uses critical thinking skills.
Title of the Web Resource
Construct a Comet
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
National Geographic Education
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/activity/construct-a-comet/?ar_a=1
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Levels: 6-8
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. National Standards, Principles, and Practices- National Science Standards: (5-8) Standard B-2: Motions and forces and Standard E-2: Understandings about Science and Technology. It addresses standard #2: Communication and Collaboration.
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource is an excellent resource because it applies content knowledge about comets and provides students the opportunity to transform their background knowledge about comets through participating in the activity. After introducing background information, students must use the scientific process to construct a comet, model the effects of solar wind on a comet, analyze and observe the comet, and draw conclusions based on a combination of their knowledge, observations, and findings. Students must also analyze the comet’s environment and how its environment influences the comet itself. This project addresses the 2nd NETS, Communication and collaboration because students must demonstrate the ability to articulate their thoughts through various verbal and non-verbal communication methods. This is an excellent resource for student learning because they need to use written and verbal communication throughout the activity to guide them to a conclusion. Students are also actively collaborating with others throughout the experiment by working as a team while also exercising flexibility and willingness to help and make compromises for the team to contribute towards their common goal. This web resource illustrates an excellent activity that would help students develop both communication and collaboration skills.
Title of the Web Resource
Adapting Under Pressure
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
National Geographic-Education
http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/activity/adapting-under-pressure/?ar_a=1
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Levels: 6-8
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. NETS standards #1; NETS standards #2
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource is an excellent resource because this activity integrates the information learned with creativity and innovative skills. After introducing foundational knowledge to students, students must then design a creature that could survive in the hadalpelagic zone. This requires students to understand and apply knowledge of the ocean zones and various animals that live in these zones to their creation of their own creature. This assignment uses both #1 and #2 of the NETS. It is excellent for student learning because it requires both communication and collaboration between peers to work in a group and collectively create the required characteristics of a creature that can survive this zone. Students must also make connections between the environment of that zone and the characteristics of the creature. This requires creativity and innovation to invent the characteristics necessary to live in that particular environment. Students can also show their creativity and originality through their creature and communicate, collaborate, and analyze with their peers to effectively prioritize the different characteristics of the creature and how pronounced they would need to be to live in their environment successfully. Students must create original work through means of personal expression while identifying possibilities. Students must also effectively communicate and collaborate with their peers to apply existing knowledge to new ideas to create a product.
Title of the Web Resource
Why Does It Rain?
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
Wonderopolis
http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-does-it-rain-2/
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Level: 8th grade
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. This activity uses NETS Standards 6a and 6b.
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource is an excellent resource because it explains the cycle water goes through within our environment. This article requires students to watch a short video, read an article about a page long, and after take a short quiz on the subject. This article provides detailed information regarding the stages water goes through such as evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. This article also provides interesting facts and introduces the process by answering a question, which would be a good way to introduce topics to students. This is an excellent resource for student learning because it helps students answer basic question they may not know and also helps them realize that there is always more information about a subject area that can be learned. As well, it is powerful to student learning because it illustrates information in a way that is easy to learn. This article addresses NETS standards, such as this is a great resource for students to explore different areas they are interested in and how questions can be explored further.
Title of the Web Resource
Holocaust and Resistance
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/holocaust-and-resistance
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Levels: 9-12
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. This lesson and activity addresses NETS Standards#1: Creativity and Innovation and #4: Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making and
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource is an excellent resource because it requires students to analyze and discuss the evidence of resistance to the Holocaust and the various questions and dilemmas associated with confrontation and resistance against the Nazi Regime. In the lesson plan, there are four individual activities students can participate in along with completing a worksheet. Students then write as if they were relatives to those who are resisting the Nazi Regime. Students also reflect in a journal format their own roles in keeping the spirit of resistance alive today. This resource is excellent for student learning because this not only requires research and knowledge of information, but also requires critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making. Students need to first put themselves into that event in history and critically think and make decisions about how they would react and what actions they would take. Students need to also reflect on how they are keeping the spirit of resistance alive today, which requires both critical thinking and communication skills. Students also need exhibit creativity through applying existing information to generate new products such as the journal entries and letters they write. Students also create individual works as means of personal expression through the journal entries.
Title of the Web Resource
Factorize
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=3511
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Level: 6-8
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. The content is numbers and operations. This activity addresses NETS Standards #4: Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills and #6a and #6b.
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” This Web Resource is an excellent resource because it teaches students about factoring by using an interactive platform in which students have to find the different factors of the number shown. Students need to find all the factors of a particular number to move on to the next number. This is powerful for student learning because it teaches students to factorize numbers in mathematics in an interactive way by creating rectangles to resemble the different numbers. This is also important for student learning because it teaches them how many factors are in a particular number and lets them find the factors themselves. This activity lets students get the wrong answer and keep trying until they get each of the factors of a particular number. This activity’s content involves numbers and operations. This activity requires students to understand and use technology systems while also using applications effectively and productively. This activity also requires critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making to effectively participate. This is beneficial for student learning because they can easily practice and memorize different factors of numbers at an early age through an interactive and engaging activity while allowing students to either choose their own numbers or have the computer assign numbers at random. This activity is valuable to further their education in mathematics and provides a foundation in which students can build upon.
Title of the Web Resource
Factor Game
Name of partner site and Link for the resource
Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activity.aspx?id=4134
Grade level or Age group this Web Resource is appropriate for Grade Levels: 6-8
NETS Standard(s) addressed by the resource (if any), if none, explain why. This activity addresses NETS Standards #2; #4; #6a and #6b.
Summary of why you feel this Web Resource is an excellent resource AND why it is powerful for student learning.
HINT: address both criteria in separate sentences, start the sentences with “This Web Resource is an excellent resource because….” The Web Resource is an excellent resource because it helps students to practice factoring in an interactive and collaborative way. This is an online game where one student picks a number and the other student tries to find all the factors of that number. Each turn is scored based on how many numbers are found. If a number’s factors have already been used previously, it cannot be picked as a factor again. This activity is played with two players and requires communication and collaboration between players. This activity addresses NETS Standard # 2 by requiring players to communicate information and ideas successfully and #4 by identifying problems or questions that require investigation. Also, students must collect and analyze data to identify a solution while understanding and using technology systems and using applications effectively and productively. This is a powerful activity for student learning because students must collaborate and communicate with their peers to play the game successfully. Also the game requires students to use critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills to successfully obtain factors in the game. They use problem solving skills to factor numbers picked by their peer, use critical thinking and decision making skills as well to pick numbers strategically so one can achieve a higher score. Students also use technology systems and applications effectively and productively while playing this interactive game.
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