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The objective of our blog is to share information about how we integrate our technology curriculum into the subject area curriculum. The foundation of this effort is the methodology of team teaching the lessons with the Middle School subject area teachers. Each post describes a particular lesson, the software used, some of the skills that were targeted, and the number of days that were spent in the lab.
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Angle Bisectors and Geometer's Sketchpad
The 8th grade Geometry students constructed triangles in Geometer's Sketchpad. Then they studied the relationships between the line segments that were created when an angle bisector divided the opposite side of the triangle into two segments. The students calculated proportions and made conjectures about these proportions as the vertices of the triangles were moved. This lesson took one class period.
