As I was reading through a high school teacher's blog, I noticed how many different categories that teacher had posted on the blog. While looking through the categories, one of the mathematics posts caught my attention. The blog, Trigonometry Applied, was the first blog that I found interesting. It was cool to see that the teacher did not just have the students sitting in the classroom listening to a lecture, but instead had the students go outside, find an object, measure the object, create an equation with an unknown factor, and then solve the problem using the knowledge that they had learned within the classroom. While the students were still doing their homework, they were able to spend sometime time outside in the sun.
One thing that I learned from this blog, is that hands-on activities do not have to be just indoors, but the students can also learn while being outside as well. These kind of activities, where the students are exploring the possibilities for themselves, is an effective way of helping the students learn the curriculum.
I like that idea of going outside to do hands on activities. Although it rains a lot in Western Washington, that might be difficult.
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