Learning is Fun and Worthwhile

Let me tell you one of my favorite things I am coming away with from this math class. My math teacher has us put together these interactive notebooks. We then have a compilation of notes, study tools, and visuals. As a future educator, I also have a compilation of future lesson resources. This takeaway is so much more helpful than a stack of worksheets, notes, and other handouts. Instead its easy to follow and reference back to, making it more likely that I will use it again. I just used a plain old black and white composition notebook for my math class. :)  Also here is a fun boomerang of my notebook. After flipping back through my notebook tonight, I had the thought of how other subjects could benefit from interactive notebooks. Or maybe doing an all subject interactive notebook. I am linking below some other resources I have found that may be helpful in starting or getting ideas for classroom interactive notebooks. I loved this Blog post about "Ways to Make Inter...

Oh, the shapes that you will see when you study geometry! haha, That is a total rip off of a Dr. Suess book, but it could be fun to plan a lesson using that theme. In class, we did centers which are so fun! I can't wait to plan centers for my future students. They really help engage the students and give a variety of opportunities to learn. Our centers involved the use of Ipads, building gumdrop structures, building shapes out of paper, and more. All super interactive, and fun. I took pictures of the center where we had the net outline of a polyhedron.(shown above) We cut them out, folded, and taped them together to form a 3D version. This really allowed us to visualize the shapes, and identify the vertices, edges, and faces. Throughout the centers, we were required to fill out 10 cards with a different shape and its characteristics. In the end, we had visualized these shapes in several different ways. Overall a very engaging lesson.

Geometry...I feel like it needs an opening song. Almost like Canada's national song. Geeeee-oooooo-metryyyy... That's an interesting thought. What if we gave every math topic a theme song. How fun would that be?! On that thought, I searched various math theme songs and found this great compilation HERE . Watch at your own risk I did not preview all of them. Though I did watch half of the 12 days of Christmath song, which was humorous because of its extensiveness. Here is the one about geometry, done by Math Antics. We were shown this one in class. I looked for a different one but its just one of the best ones out there. Click HERE for the Math Antics video about points, lines, and planes. Ok, now I want to talk about the terms of geometry. Most understanding of geometry is all dependent on if you understand the language or the vocabulary. Luckily this isn't the first time I am learning geometry and my High School geometry has stuck with me for as long as it has. In cl...