Saturday, May 25, 2013

Oreos, Barbies, and Essential Questions: framing projects for differentiated learning

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The Oreos lesson/unit has been going swimmingly. Students loved the project and the poster, though I'm feeling a little bored with my p...
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Sunday, May 19, 2013

Oreos on Trial — Expert Witness Edition (or The Curious Case of the "Double Stuf" Oreos)

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This is the week when everyone in our eighth grade class needs to give his or her formal presentation as the final part of their already sup...
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Saturday, May 18, 2013

An act of wisdom

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"One thing I know for sure is that when you are hungry, it is an act of wisdom each time you turn down a spoonful if you know that the...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Substitution with stars

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This one is for Max, who asked about it on Twitter, and for Ashli, who interviewed me for her Infinite Tangents podcasts. As Ashli and I w...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Sometimes I teach, and sometimes I just try to get out of the way...

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We are in the midst of our giant 8th grade culminating assessment extravaganza — a multi-part project that includes a research paper, a crea...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Allegory, iambic pentameter, and 8th graders

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In 8th grade English we have just started our poetry unit, which is probably my favorite literature unit, and today was probably my favorite...
Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Intro to Quadratics — from "drab" to "fab" (or at least, to something less drab)

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Recently, I created a new anchor lesson for my Algebra 1 quadratics unit. I found that, while I really liked the sequencing of activities an...
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