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It’s Monday which means its time for Monday Must Reads! For my school, that means it’s a distance learning drill day. We are face-to-face Tuesday through Friday. Each Monday, we have a distance learning day to practice learning digitally in case we need to pivot to full-time distance learning.
I don’t know how those of you who are teaching virtually everyday are doing it. After six google meets in the span of three hours, I am exhausted. So kudos to those of you doing this everyday. I am in awe of you. You are amazing.
I should really be planning lessons for the rest of this week, but I decided to take a bit of a break to scroll through my twitter favorites from the last two-ish weeks. I hope you enjoy this new volume of Monday Must Reads.
It’s my weekly-ish attempt at capturing the amazing ideas shared by mostly math teachers with a few inspiring science teachers thrown in as well. I hope you find an idea worth using or adapting for your own classroom.
Brownies in a Mug Mole Lab
I’ve really enjoyed scrolling through Shannon Fusina‘s twitter feed and seeing how she is modifying her chemistry classes for distance learning. I think we could all learn something from her and her creativity!
Chemistry Photo Scavenger Hunt
I love this idea of having students find real-life examples of chemistry in their house and documenting it.
Chemistry Cooking Shows
How fun to have students put on their own cooking shows while exploring mixtures vs pure substances.
Marginal and Conditional Distribution Activity
Julia Anker shares a Desmos Activity Builder that takes a look at real life IRS data.
LinkedIn Puzzle
Tierney Kennedy shares a great math puzzle posted on LinkedIn of all places!
How Many Do You See?
Fawn Nguyen shares a best practice when working with students and visual patterns.
Digital Sum Em Up Activity
Looking for a self-checking activity? Look no further than Farica Erwin‘s AMAZING Digital Sum Em Up Template!
1 to 9 Puzzle
Mark Kaercher shows how to incorporate @1to9puzzle into Desmos. Brilliant!
Getting to Know You Matching Activity
Miss Bohr shares a fun getting-to-know you activity. This could still be fun a few weeks into the school year!
Desmos Check-In
Check out this great way to check in with students and provide extra help from Jessica Keen!
Order of Operations Task
Interesting thoughts from David Butler regarding the order of operations…
Organizing Digital Resources
Mrs. B shares a way to organize digital resources. I know we can all use more organization right now.
Trig Quadrants Practice
I really like this focused trig practice from Chris McGrane.
Real Number System Maps Activity
Ella Hereth engages students with the real number system by having them draw their own maps.
Famous Mathematicians of the World Posters
Nathan Day shares some inspiring posters.
Formulas with Sentence Strips
Austintacious Mathematicians shares an idea for using sentence strips in the math classroom.
Slope Dominoes Activity
I also really like this idea from Austintacious Mathematicians for using dominoes to practice finding slope between two points.
Domain and Range with Popsicle Sticks
And, why did I never think of using popsicle sticks for teaching domain and range?!?
Keep sharing those awesome ideas! Want even more ideas? I suggest checking out previous volumes of Monday Must Reads
Anonymous
Tuesday 6th of October 2020
this post is amazing for parents to help teach their kids at home! all of these are really great ideas for activities.