Blog 3 & 4 Prompts - Geometry

Your audience for both of these blogs is a teacher of your grade level who uses traditional instructional approaches to teach geometry concepts. Your blog should discuss how by integrating geometry with a real world topic (CSI, nature, art, astronomy, architecture), learning geometry can be made more engaging, and students can gain a deeper understanding of geometric principles. You want to encourage these teachers to think outside the box and make new connections.

If you need more structure, you can follow this format (but you don't have to!):

Begin by framing your argument for the blog and letting the reader know what your central purpose is and what they can expect to learn from reading your blog. You can also put in a bit of personal experience here if relevant.

Next, give an overview of what you experienced on your field day, with relevant pictures, and how it relates to teaching geometry at your grade level. Provide hyperlinks to the website of any field sites you visited.

Next, discuss some of the background research you did for your PowerPoint presentation that your reader might be interested in, to get some more ideas about how geometry might be integrated with your topic area. Provide links to the resources you gathered.

Finally, give 2 short examples of classroom activities for your grade level that integrate your topic area with geometry. If they are not original activities designed by you, provide the reader with links where they can find those activities and more like them.

Close by reiterating your main argument, and repeating your central purpose in a memorable and convincing way.