Teacher Process
The WebQuest will be implemented in late April, early May in place of a research paper usually assigned as a final project.
It will incorporate transformational geometry that has not been incorporated in the curriculum before but is included in the Vermont standards.
It will incorporate a constructed response, a school wide writing requirement.
Students will use technology to create tessellations. They will use reflections, translations and rotations with the technology, fulfilling technology requirements.
Students will create a multimedia product to showcase their learning again fulfilling technology requirements.
The WebQuest will be introduced on two consecutive class periods.
The students will work on pieces on their own and in class one or two days a week as needed after the initial introduction.
Students will work individually on initial learning pieces and the artwork piece then in groups on the final technology showcase of their work.
During class time the students will work in class with the laptop cart.
On their own they will be given passes to the library or Mac Lab.
Laptops will have to be available for all students
Class time will be need to review student work with them individually and as a class.
The WebQuest should be finished in late May
This WebQuest meets the State of Vermont GLE (grade level equivalent) 10-4 Applies concepts of congruency by solving problems on or off a coordinate plane involving reflections,translations or rotations.