Discussed the following:

• Assessment Ideas (house design, train network)

• Literacy activities (communicative find-a-word)

• Conditions for Eulerian paths

• Representations of networks (diagram, table, matrix, worded description)

• Real-world considerations (e.g. cost of installation/construction)

• Lesson ideas (history/context, vocabulary)

• Outdoor activities

• Six degrees of separation

• Handshaking Lemma

• Real-world effects of removing vertices from a network (e.g. in food webs)

• Four colour theorem and maps

• Slime mould networking experiments

• Trees and printer placement in offices (optimal location)

• Family trees and kinship networks

• Terminology (network features, algorithms, walks, graph types)

• Examples of networks (e.g. social network, transport network, food webs)

Discussed the following:

• Key concepts (terminology, diagrams, challenges, algorithms)

• Activity ideas (e.g. throwing ball of twine, constructing networks)

• Resources (e.g. paddle-pop sticks, string, Google Maps)

• Assessment

• Links to other topics (e.g. rates and ratios, measurement)

• Lesson Ideas

• Biology (Taxonomy)

• Examples of networks

Discussed plans for Lessons 1-4

• Lesson 1 - Introduction to Networks, Vertices, Edges and Network Diagrams

• Lesson 2 - Social Networks (plan on students creating and recording data, and learning about degree and redrawing diagrams through isomorphism)

• Lesson 3 - Food webs (as examples of directed networks)

• Lesson 4 - Transport networks (as examples of weighted networks)