Facebook Assignments

I saw this resource a teacher had on their page and it seemed interesting.  Letting their students on Facebook.... (sort of).  Students love social media, but most schools have policies that restrict student access of Facebook.  I have had students use a template I created in pages and in word as a work around.  This project works great when students are conducting work on biographies of people of a particular era.

You could use many different topics, especially what you are covering in math class would be a good tie in with the social presence of that era.  You could even have a wall hang where you assign students to develop the persona of each mathematician and have them write on each others Facebook pages.

Here is the link for the page, it is a history page, but would be a great addition to any math classroom.

http://wikihistory.wikispaces.com/Project_Ideas

Below features some of the outlines and individuals they had to choose from in the assignment.