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Ashley Taplin

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Category: Interdisciplinary

Lions, Tigers, Math, Biology, World Geography, English, and DIM, oh my!

Posted on September 20, 2015November 18, 2020 by ashleytaplin

Okay, I know that title is cheesy… We took our freshmen students to the zoo last week for their first… Read more Lions, Tigers, Math, Biology, World Geography, English, and DIM, oh my!

Conditional Statements in Geometry and Computer Programming

Posted on September 17, 2015November 18, 2020 by ashleytaplin

While planning for the logic unit in geometry a few weeks ago, I wanted to increase the rigor and apply a more… Read more Conditional Statements in Geometry and Computer Programming

World Geometry

Posted on September 7, 2015November 18, 2020 by ashleytaplin

While planning for geometry last week I began thinking about how I could amp up midpoint and distance formulas. After… Read more World Geometry

Introduction to 3-D with Polyhedron Nets and Islamic Design

Posted on April 27, 2015April 5, 2017 by ashleytaplin

A couple weeks ago, I was planning for our last unit in geometry which is 3 dimensional solids, and as I was… Read more Introduction to 3-D with Polyhedron Nets and Islamic Design

MatHistory Part 2

Posted on February 22, 2015February 23, 2015 by ashleytaplin

This post has taken me a while to write with several revisions because I just haven’t known how to write… Read more MatHistory Part 2

MatHistory

Posted on February 5, 2015February 8, 2015 by ashleytaplin

I’m getting really excited for a new idea the world history teacher and I have been brainstorming for a few weeks.… Read more MatHistory

Nuclear Culture

Posted on February 5, 2015November 18, 2020 by ashleytaplin

We just finished a 3 week long interdisciplinary unit on nuclear energy. I am very grateful to have the opportunity to… Read more Nuclear Culture

One of My Favorite Projects

Posted on February 4, 2015November 18, 2020 by ashleytaplin

I am starting off blogging by sharing one of my favorite projects that I created with my dean a few… Read more One of My Favorite Projects

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When I talked with my colleague about ideas to support adults as we go back to school next week, she called it self-compassion and that notion stuck with me. Stress will be heightened balancing work and home life, and I know I don’t always practice self-care when I need to most. So, creating this with her reminded me that these simple strategies can be powerful to recenter ourselves when so much lately seems out of our control.
UPDATE: I also included a 1-10 scale as mentioned in a comment here...loved the idea to check in on readiness to dive back into learning (1-I am still feeling effects and it’s hard to focus, 10-I can focus and feel ready to get back to school).
Since Algebra 2 has studied so many functions and will soon move on to another (exponentials), I wanted a way to have students compare and contrast graphs. When I started building in Desmos it got a bit cluttered, until I found this @desmosinc build in a collection by Andy Malbouef and recreated it for our functions. I loved the idea of sentence stems he included and then I also added in a word bank for additional support.

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