By: Mary Kienstra on: May 17, 2015 in: data, student engagement
Any good project reaches across the day to different parts of the curriculum. Our shark tracking project took center-stage this week as students worked with shark data analysis in math class. The first thing students did was adopt a shark and then track it on Ocearch.org. Once kids have their own sharks, they own the learning and […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: June 16, 2014 in: data, Engagement, iPads, presentation
This year I had 8 iPads in my classroom. I had requested more, enough to have a 1:1 classroom, but I was very grateful for the ones I had. Resources like iPads are not abundant at my school. I was not surprised at the end of the year when my administration asked me to tell […] Read more
By: Mary Kienstra on: May 12, 2014 in: data, Engagement, games, Greg Tang math, Kakooma, Math
Do you have lessons that give you a set of data for the kids to analyze? The text we use has data sets about the length of last names and the percent of cats that have bad breath. For some reason, my students don’t seem to care much about these lessons. This data has no […] Read more
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