Archive for the “Guest Posts” category

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 (…)

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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. (…)

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Extreme Powerpoint Makeover/ Guest Appearance

by tblanchet on January 28, 2010

I thought the last post was getting lengthy, so I broke this update into two entries. (Check out the previous post to get caught up if you haven’t been here for a while.) Now, where was I? OH! I have (…)

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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 (…)

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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 (…)

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