Miscellaneous: assistive technology, clarke co. documentation, science software, workshops

Assistive Technology
AT Basics
This website supports school personnel in finding and selecting assistive technologies.

Georgia Project for Assistive Technologies
A brief explanation from Chicago Public Schools.

Pattern Blocks: Exploring Fractions with Shapes
Pattern Blocks is a program that lets you use virtual pattern blocks. No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In provides lesson plans for using the Pattern Blocks Program for fractional exploration.
Clarke County Specific Documentation
Reserving a Laptop
Laptop Quick-fixes
NetOp - Classroom Management Tool
NetOp - Background
Science Software

Celestia - A 3D Space Simulator
Make sure you download the correct version of the program (i.e., celestia-win32-1.3.0.exe for Windows or the Mac package for OS X users).

Workshops (click on the title of each section to download that worksheet)

GCTM-
This is a page of links to applets (little applications) that we presented at the Georgia Teachers of Mathematics Conference in October, 2004.

Ice Cream Truck questions-
This the page with simpler questions to be asked using Ice Cream truck. There are a lot of other questions that could be asked but these are designed to get students thinking about sales and product.

Ice Cream Truck worksheet-
This is the more complicated spreadsheet-like Microsoft Excel file that tries to get students to recognize many aspects of selling, including predicting their maximum possible gain (net and gross) for the day.

Ice Cream Truck ratio questions-
This was not introduced in the workshops, but it was mentioned that it would be nice to have a sheet dealing with ratios of adults to children. This sheet attempts to get at that.

Triangle in a Rectangle
This is a jsp applet that demonstrates the relationship between the area of a triangle and the angle of a rectangle that share a base.