BrainPop

In 6th Grade Facegroups, we are studying Digital Citizenship.  To facilitate this, a website called "BrainPop" was used.  Students began this unit by learning how to make (and not make) an internet search.  A short video was watched, and then students created their own "mind map" to demonstrate what they had learned.  Interactive games followed making internet research applicable and interesting.  This lesson will assist students who are currently researching topics for the Egyptian projects in Humanities classes.

Hip Hop Dabbing in Algebra

It always amazes me with what becomes popular or what videos go viral on the internet.  These last couple of months the 8th grade students have been obsessed with Dabbing.  This type of dance move is actually pretty simple.  Lift one are in the air and bring your head down into your other arm like you are sneezing.

I realized that this would be a great math problem.  I decided to use dabbing as a warm-up for finding slope.  Students had to take a picture of their dab and then find the slope of their dab.  They used google drawing to overlay grid paper so they could come up with two points.  From there, they could find the slope.  It was awesome, because students were then talking about what a zero slope dab would look like and an undefined dab.  They were using Algebra vocabulary to describe their dab.  Below are some pictures of students dabbing.