Unit+Plan

I am going to use a lesson I stole from John J. This is a lesson I use currently in Geometry but with a bit of a twist.

Transformation Flipbook

Objective: Help students learn about Transformations such as, translation, reflection, rotation, and dilation.

Materials: Computers with Powerpoint for each student ipod touch with internet axcess www.youtube.com www.wikispaces.com

Procedure: This project has taken about 5 days before, but I would change it to 7-8 days.

The first 2 days would be going through activities to learn about the 4 transformations, translation, rotation, reflection, and dilation.

Day 3-4 Students will make flipbook presentations which are 100 slide powerpoint presentations. Students create a picture and then on the next slide change it just a bit. This will create a small animation. I have an example here.

[|This] is what I have done in the past.

Day 5-7

I would do what I have done for the students. I take their powerpoint presentation and make a jpeg image for each slide. I take these pictures and import them into Windows Movie Maker. I would then put a naration and/or music to the presentaions. There are 3 examples [|here]. I would have the students do this.

Day 7

The students would then export this into a mpeg movie. I would have them upload these to youtube. They would put on wikispaces what the title of the video and a link to their video. I would also make sure a name is not posted. Their assignment for this night would be to watch all the videos and vote for their favorite in the comment section of youtube.

Day 8

We would use our ipods to watch the videos and see who the winner would be.

Assessment: Students would be assessed on their use of transformations. I think I would also give extra credit for the top 5 videos. I think I would also have some element of students assessing other students on this project.