On the PLAYground website, I have set up a canvas for the unit
plan of graphing polynomials. This process was unique perspective of the
beginning stages of planning a unit plan. It enabled me to think critically
about what topics would be covered, as well as how they would be presented to
the students. Becoming familiar with the website was the first obstacle I
encountered. Although I, as many of my peers are as well, am very familiar with
designing profiles on social networking sites, such as MySpace, Twitter, and
Facebook, this network utilizes different applications to create a page. After
a short period of playing around with the website, it became easy to edit and
customize the canvas to my lesson plan.
My unit of graphing polynomials is based in exploratory lessons,
such as the lesson, All in the Family, mentioned in my previous post. The video
linked to the page, serves as an introductory attention grabber. I hope that it
will help students to think out of the box about what the graphs of functions
are and to think about how the functions we will be learning now are actually
the foundations of functions they will learn to graph as their math education
expands. The links I have provided will provide students with links to known
interactive websites where they are welcome to further explore the topic or
search for a clearer understanding of the topic. The pictures that I have
included are not the best pictures for the unit; however, I have not found the
perfect fit of pictures to capture the students’ interest in the topic.
PLAYground Canvas
