Doing my own thing...Steph Kiero

Well, I've gone a bit rogue and worked on my own task this PLC.  Here is a bit about it.

1: I actually chose a tool related to "How can students show their knowledge in more effective digital formats?"  The tool will be Educreations and a shared Google Doc.  The goal is for students to have a digital platform to create and present problems, solve others' problems, and present solutions.

Students will work on a foam tile project in which they learn to write expressions to describe perimeter and surface area in terms of a variable.  They will also learn to group like terms and plug-in given values to evaluate an expression.  Students will practice with pre-designed tiles and ultimately create a tile and solution of their own to share on the class doc.  This is a multi-day lesson that I am teaching during Extended Math.  Students will spend one class period at the end viewing and solving problems from at least 3 other students.

Mt time table is behind everyone else, so I'm still figuring out what works and doesn't.  Posts 2 and 3 will be coming shortly.