Question: What to do for the Geometry teacher.

[Liz Coman]

At the first meeting of the school year, I offered my services to collaborate with anyone on staff who might want to bring their students to the library for a subject-related lesson.  (I'm new to the library after the classroom, and I want to make it a meaningful place for all.)  The Geometry teacher has taken me up on the offer.  That's the good news.  The bad news is I have no idea what to do for her.  Her task to me was, "How could my Geometry students use the library?"  We are a small school with 12 computers, so they could partner up at the computers, or she could provide a paper/pencil lesson for half the students for half the class and then students switch.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Liz Coman

[Ryan Goble]

Liz this is a great question - you might copy and paste it in the Math group discussion forum where the subject specialists will have a LOT of ideas for you!

Ryan:)

[Liz Coman]

Great suggestion--and done!

Thank you!
Liz

[Vicki Gardner]

see the link below
http://mathforum.org/alejandre/workshops/crystal.html

You can do research on crystallography - where students looks forr gemetric shapes in crystals and classify them by shape - also they can do reserarch on symmetry...

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/programs/conceptsI...

Here is a lesson plans where kids can reserach different proofs on the Pythagorean theorem and/or they can research Greek mathematicians..

Good Luck and congrats on getting the Math teacher in there!!

Vicki G

[Liz Coman]

Thank you, Vicki--I will get right on these plans. I'm hoping the geometry teacher will "talk up" the library in a big way, and these plans sound like just the thing.

Liz

[Lori Carter]

Perhaps they could look at the geometry of bridges -- research different types, spans, etc.

[Liz Coman]

Good follow-up. Thanks for the advice.

Liz