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Digital Breakout: Experimental Design

Well, hello!  Back to using Breakouts in the classroom.  Seriously, I cannot express how much I find these helpful, engaging, fun, amazing, etc.  And my students have the same sentiment! If you are worried about how time-consuming Breakouts are to create, feel free to simply use mine.  Just copy/paste this web address so that your students have access to it.  Warning: you should walk through it before giving it to your kiddos... some of the clues are tricky - and some have nothing to do with breaking out!

 For this particular Breakout, I borrowed some ideas from BreakoutEdu Digital.  Sometimes the storyboard is harder for me to create than finding the actual problems and the use of Google's media - hence, a lot of borrowing goes down on my laptop :)  

 If you have made it this far, feel free to make a copy of the teacher notes for yourself.  Again, if you do plan on using this for your students I highly suggest that you "Breakout" without looking at the teacher notes.  Trust me, you will want to know where the students will need help and hints!


~SSB


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  1. RachelOctober 2, 2019 at 10:23 AM

    thanks so much for sharing this resource. I hope to use it as a review with my AP Stats kids one day - but I cannot locate the invisible link to the MC Quiz. The teacher notes say it is between the two intro paragraphs but I can't seem to find it. Do you have any tips?

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    1. girlmathx2October 8, 2019 at 1:09 PM

      Ahhh yes... funny story! When I switched to the new Google Sites, that link disappeared and I cannot remember if I have had a chance to fix that issue yet. But thanks for the heads up! Feel free to make a copy of the form and delete that lock.

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