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Lindsey Fodrie- Down East Middle School

Lindsey. is an 8th grade Math and Social Studies teacher who uses a variety of technology in her classes each day. She is comfortable with trying new things and her students love using the technology to problem solve or be creative. In the sample lessons below, Lindsey's students used Google Tour Builder to create a tour of the original 13 colonies. Desmos is a suite of math tools that allows students to graph functions, plot data, evaluate equations, explore transformations and much more. By solving a series of related problems, students discover the answer to an over arching question or problems.

Tour Builder - Put your story on the map.Tell your stories with photos, videos and rich text on Google Earth.

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Tara Sandmann- Down East Middle School

Tara uses a variety of technology in her classes each week. She is never afraid to try anything new! The two examples shown below, allow the students to communicate and collaborate on the same message board. Padlet allows students to share ideas by adding sticky notes to a bulletin board. Dotstorming takes it a step further by allowing students to vote on the idea they think is best. Teachers can assign the number of votes each student gets.

Athens vs. SpartaPut your first name as the title of your entry. If you voted for Athens explain why it is the best city-state of ancient Greece. If you voted for Sparta explain why you think it is the best. Then make a CIVIL comment on at least 2 of your classmates entries who chose opposite of you trying to persuade them to see it your way. If someone makes a comment on your entry, write a CIVIL response to a least one of them.

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