Unit Plan Canvas

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