Internet Project

Your job is to create a lesson based on the Internet that utilizes a website to teach
a concept. Here are the steps in developing such a lesson.

1. Choose a concept from AP Calculus AB or BC (you may choose something that

you did not learn yet)

2. Find a website that uses animation or an applet that demonstrates the

concept. The website must actually DO something—it cannot be just plain facts.

3. Develop several examples that fully show the concept.

4. Your project is complete when you do at least a 10 minute demonstration to

the class during class time.

Choosing the concept and finding the website

 Choose concepts that interest you and lend themselves to animation.

Think of specific topics we have discussed this year. Use your book to
stimulate thought.
 You may have to change your concept if there aren’t enough decent
websites that demonstrate the concept.
 Again, the website can’t be just facts—something has to happen within it.
Google search the word “applet” or demonstration while you search.
 You may use the library during class time. Should I hear any reports about
a student not using the library for the purpose of this project, they will
have the privilege taken away.

Once you have your website and you are convinced it will make a good lesson…

 I will have a list posted in my room. Your names will be on it. You will write
the concept that you are examining and the website you are using. I will
not allow duplicate websites to be used.
 More than one student can use the same topic but once the website is
used, it cannot be used by anyone else.
  If the site has more than one applet attached to it, that site can be used by
other students but not the same applet. It is your responsibility to make
sure no one else is using your applet.
 So it is first come, first served for any one particular applet.
 Once you decide the site, you cannot change it.

Developing the examples

 You need to have at least 5 uses of the site. For example, if you were using
slope fields, you would have at least 5 specific examples of differential
equations (different types) and specific points.
 The examples must be written out beforehand. When you demonstrate,
the examples must have been investigated already.
 Understand why the examples work the way they do. This means you need
to understand the concept you are investigating.

Making an appointment with your teacher

 Our demonstration days are Thursday May 20th, Friday May 21st, and
Monday May 24th.
 You will be given 10 minutes, no longer, to make your presentation.

Grading:

 Projects are worth 40% of your last quarter grade. It will be graded using
a rubric scale (this will be handed out later).
 If there is some thought in your examples and your site is decent
(somewhat professional), you will obtain an excellent grade…otherwise…
not so excellent