Learning Geometric Shapes & A Visit - January 2011

As part of the December/January instructional calendar, our 3rd grade classes have been studying various geometric shapes and their properties.  During this time, the iAchieve Team was visited by Ms. Jennifer Lane, one of Maricopa County's Technology Integration Trainers.  She was able to observe students actively engaged in learning specific math skills supported by iPod technology!

In several classes, students collaborated together to search the internet on their iPods for real-life items having a geometric shape.  We saw ice cream and construction cones, old 1950-era TV's shaped like a cube and many types of pyramid buildings and sphere sculptures.  It was technology-supported learning with a real life context.  Awesome!