Online Projects, Collaboration Sites and Publishing Opportunities

Lesson Idea Name: Geometry Exploration Paper

Content Area: Geometry
Grade Level(s): 9th & 10th

Content Standard Addressed:

https://www.georgiastandards.org/Georgia-Standards/Frameworks/Geometry-
Standards.pdf

Technology Standard Addressed:

2a: Students cultivate and manage their digital identity and reputation and are aware of
the permanence of their actions in the digital world.
2b: Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology,
including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
2c: Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations
of using and sharing intellectual property.
3a: Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other
resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
3b: Students evaluate the accuracy, perspective, credibility and relevance of information,
media, data or other resources.
3c: Students curate information from digital resources using a variety of tools and methods
to create collections of artifacts that demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
4a: Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing
theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.
5b: Students collect data or identify relevant data sets, use digital tools to analyze them,
and represent data in various ways to facilitate problem-solving and decision-making.
5c: Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop
descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.
5d: Students understand how automation works and use algorithmic thinking to develop
a sequence of steps to create and test automated solutions.
6d: Students publish or present content that customizes the message and medium for their
intended audiences.
6b: Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into
new creations.
7c: Students contribute constructively to project teams, assuming various roles and
responsibilities to work effectively toward a common goal.

Selected Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing Opportunity:

Classroom Authors

URL(s) to support the lesson:

https://www.classroomauthors.com

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Describe how you would incorporate an Online Project/Collaboration Site/Publishing
Opportunity in your classroom:
This is one activity that I haven’t ever seen implemented in a mathematics classroom but
one that I would really like to implement in mine one day. For this assignment, I would like to
design a project so that students are required to write, submit, and publish a paper or story
after researching a topic of their choice from one of the units we have covered in class. In
their paper or story, the goal will be to describe the topic and make connections to other
information and materials from class, as well as find a new way to explain it (that we haven’t
discussed) that may help a future student gain a better understanding of the topic.

The goal of this project is to encourage students to dive deeper into the world of
mathematics to improve their own understanding as well as promote mathematical
research and individual problem solving. Additionally, publishing their work would hopefully
get students excited about working on and finishing it. This project would be roughly one to
two weeks long, essentially the same length as a unit, and they would be given time in class
to work on the project as well as being given lab/library days.

What technologies would be required to implement this proposed learning activity in a

classroom?
A device with wireless capabilities as well as access to internet and a word processing tool
such as a computer, iPad, or smartphone.

Describe how the following features are addressed in this learning experience (note: all of
them may not be addressed in the project, but most should be if you are reaching a high
LoTi Level).
a. Collaboration with peers, near-peers, mentors outside their classroom and often
beyond their school: Students can collaborate with their peers to write a paper in a
group of up to 4 across all classes as long as each student documents at least one
portion written by them. This allows them to collaborate with peers in or outside their
own classroom and encourages them to work together while each carrying their own
weight throughout the project.

b. Student-centered learning and knowledge creation (creating original data and or

producing original products as a result of engaging in a project): Students are
expected to write a fact-based paper or story about a topic of their choosing
throughout the units we have covered by that point. Their paper should be accurate
and include gathered data (if applicable) and be an original piece.

c. Higher-order thinking: This project requires students to make connections between

what they have already learned, what they are learning throughout the process of
writing the paper, and the data they collect (if applicable). They must draw
conclusions based on their information that would help teach the material to future
students.

d. Students publishing their original work to others who will use/care about their product:
Students are expected to publish their final paper or story to Classroom Authors in
order to be published and displayed in the classroom library for future students to look
at/read.

Bloom’s Taxonomy Level(s):

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☐ Remembering ☐ Understanding ☒ Applying ☒ Analyzing ☒ Evaluating
☐ Creating

Levels of Technology Integration (LoTi Level):

☐ Level 1: Awareness ☐ Level 2: Exploration ☐ Level 3: Infusion ☐ Level 4:
Integration
☒ Level 5: Expansion ☐ Level 6: Refinement

Universal Design for Learning (UDL):

This activity provides options for comprehension by using background knowledge students
should already know, as well as guides information processing, visualisation and
manipulation. It also provides options for physical action by varying the methods for
responses and navigation of the assignment. Additionally, it sustains effort and persistence
by fostering collaboration and community through allowing students to work together.

Lesson idea implementation and Internet Safety Policies:

This project is one that can be published online if allowed by the parents, or it can simply be
published as a hard copy to keep in the classroom. Students would have to know the school
policies on internet safety, and one day of class could be dedicated to reviewing that
before beginning the project.

Reflective Practice:
Hopefully this lesson/activity/project would positively impact student learning and
encourage them to continue math exploration in the future. Ideally, this project would be
done at the end of a semester or year so that students have a wide variety of materials to
choose from. I feel as though it could be considered an extension of the year in which they
would have to connect various themes, topics, and ideas looked at throughout the entirety
of the course.

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