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Periodic Table, Elements, and Technology
by msgibson on October 26, 2010
My Chemistry class worked on a project to explore the uses of elements in everyday life. Ms. Blanchet and I worked together as a collaborative team to develop this lesson. The lesson was student-centered in that the students had to (…)
What a “co-ink-ee-dink”…more fun with money
by tblanchet on September 19, 2010
What a coincidence! Just as I was putting together my post on “Blanchet Benjamins”, one of my former students posted on Facebook about the “Dollar Rede$ign Project” where designers from all over the country are submitting extreme makeovers of U.S. (…)
Inequality Mobiles
by tblanchet on December 17, 2009
These photos are a couple of the Inequality Mobiles my students created. We had a lot of fun. Each student was assigned an inequality at random. They had to work out the inequality, graph it, and use it to create (…)
Extreme Classroom Makeover!
by tblanchet on August 8, 2009
Thanks to Debbie Diller’s book, Spaces and Places, I was able to makeover my classroom–big time. My new job requires me to provide job-embedded professional development (training) for the almost 200-teacher faculty at my school. I am required to have (…)