Description
The Alphabet Slope Creative Project gives students an opportunity to practice using positive, negative, zero and undefined slopes in a creative context that is fun and personal. This project has two parts. First students practice labeling the lines that make up the letters of the alphabet, according to slope definitions. Once that is completed and checked by the teacher to ensure understanding, students will move on to the creative portion of the project. To complete the second portion of the project, students each choose a word that describes them. They write this word on a poster, decorate it, and label the slopes of the letters. Please see the student samples that follow.
Students will:
1. Label each letter of the alphabet according to the slope of its lines.
2. Choose a word that describes their personality.
3. Create a poster based on their chosen word.
4. Label the slopes contained in the letters of their word.
5. Decorate their poster in a way that emphasizes their personality.
This is a great activity for the beginning of a unit on slope. I use the Alphabet Slope Creative Project (ABC Slope) on the first day of the unit and the i-Logo Mastery Task ends the unit. I show the video called ‘Slope Dude’ which is super corny, but students see it once and never get confused about positive, negative, zero and undefined slope again. There is more than one video with this name. I show the video by gDawg Enterprises copyright @2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzU8x5cMR-w. I choose the 10 most creative ABC slope posters from each class to display on the classroom wall during the Linear Equations unit. The i-Logo Mastery Task is available at my store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Absolute-Value. These bookend projects, ABC Slope at the beginning and i-Logo at the end, are very effective in helping students to master Linear Equations.
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Wendy Petty
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Highlights
Description
The Alphabet Slope Creative Project gives students an opportunity to practice using positive, negative, zero and undefined slopes in a creative context that is fun and personal. This project has two parts. First students practice labeling the lines that make up the letters of the alphabet, according to slope definitions. Once that is completed and checked by the teacher to ensure understanding, students will move on to the creative portion of the project. To complete the second portion of the project, students each choose a word that describes them. They write this word on a poster, decorate it, and label the slopes of the letters. Please see the student samples that follow.
Students will:
1. Label each letter of the alphabet according to the slope of its lines.
2. Choose a word that describes their personality.
3. Create a poster based on their chosen word.
4. Label the slopes contained in the letters of their word.
5. Decorate their poster in a way that emphasizes their personality.
This is a great activity for the beginning of a unit on slope. I use the Alphabet Slope Creative Project (ABC Slope) on the first day of the unit and the i-Logo Mastery Task ends the unit. I show the video called ‘Slope Dude’ which is super corny, but students see it once and never get confused about positive, negative, zero and undefined slope again. There is more than one video with this name. I show the video by gDawg Enterprises copyright @2009: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzU8x5cMR-w. I choose the 10 most creative ABC slope posters from each class to display on the classroom wall during the Linear Equations unit. The i-Logo Mastery Task is available at my store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Absolute-Value. These bookend projects, ABC Slope at the beginning and i-Logo at the end, are very effective in helping students to master Linear Equations.
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Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit for future purchases:
Go to your "My Purchases" page. Next to each purchase, you'll see a "Provide Feedback" button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you may use to lower the cost of your future purchases. We'd really love it if you'd rate our item after downloading! Feedback is so VERY important!
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Absolute Value
Wendy Petty
petty415@gmail.com
For more Project Based Learning with Mathematics available at my store: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Absolute-Value
