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Conic Desmos Project

Desmos is such an awesome tool in the math classroom. This is a perfect lesson for students to show off their creativity while demonstrating their understanding of conics. 

In this project, students watch a YouTube tutorial on restrictions. Then students are given the freedom to draw whatever they want. 

Desmos makes it so easy to keep all student's projects in one place. We can quickly grade their submissions following the rubric given to the students right in Desmos. 

We each have one section of PC, so we like to have a competition for the best drawing. Since you can easily "anonymize" the submissions in Desmos, students can judge fairly. I have my students vote on the best drawing in her class, and her class votes on the best in mine. This gives the students a little incentive to impress their peers. 

Not everyone has the best artistic ability, but students enjoy the challenge. One thing that you have to watch out for is cheating. Students can google images of Desmos art projects, so just watch out for that! :( 

Here is the link to our project: Desmos Drawing. If you use it, I have added a slide for my students to sign up for groups. You can make a copy and edit to delete that aspect. (I use Alice Keeler's rubric template tab, so I have students sign up for groups using a Google Form. This allows me to copy and paste the group names and email addresses to make the tabs.)  

~RJ & SSB 

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