Chandra Manning. 6-12 Instructional Facilitator. Asheboro City Schools. NC. USA

Thursday, March 12, 2015

Pi Day!

Pi Day is March 14 (because 3.14....get it?!!!). This year's Pi Day is for the record books:
If you look at the date and time to have an ultimate Pi Day celebration, it lines up perfectly with the first 10 digits of Pi!

I've found some activities you can use in class (and you don't have to be a math teacher):
Mensa Foundation Educational Programs has some interesting cross-disciplinary resources:
  • Pi Template
  • Easy Pi Day Cupcakes Recipe
  • Making Pi a Law (Pseudo Bill)
  • Make Music Out of Pi
  • Poetry and other Writing Activities using the TP-CASTT method to analyze
Excerpt of the Poem "Pi" by Wislawa Szymborska
The admirable number pi:
three point one four one.
All the following digits are also just a start,
five nine two because it never ends.
It can't be grasped, six five three five, at a glance,
eight nine, by calculation,
seven nine, through imagination,
or even tree two three eight in jest, or by comparison
four six to anything
two six four three in the world.

Every Teacher a Literacy Teacher with Technology Tools

Tina Webster has shared a great tech tools video! It describes 7 free online sites that support literacy instruction: Subtext, ActivelyLearn, EtherPad, HemingwayApp, StoryBird, GotBrainy, and Newsela. We have previously highlighted two of those sites on this blog. (I linked you to those again.) The blog and video provide more ideas and support for both students and teachers.

Click Here>>Please take some time to read and hear more about these resources.


#DLDay


Friday, March 13, 2015 is Digital Learning Day (search for #DLDay on Twitter to jump in ongoing conversation with educators about digital learning in their classrooms and schools). While we are all at different places on the digital continuum, please use this day for both you and your students to reflect and discuss the impact of technology on our educational lives. Digital Learning Day is about empowering students and teachers and increasing college and career readiness. It's certainly too be to confined to one day or one activity. Your #DLDay activity can take place next week or even next month!

Resources to explore from www.digitallearningday.org:


~Chandra