I’ve shared my students’ marbleslides the last few years (2016-2017 and 2017-2018 and 2018-2019). Going through their creations was more fun this year than the previous years. It made me miss being in the classroom with my students SO much! I smiled thinking of each of my students as I looked at what they had created.
If you haven’t checked out the previous years’ posts, I highly recommend it. My students are SO creative!
If you want to do this with your own students, have them go to teacher.desmos.com and walk them through the steps of how to create a custom activity, how to pull up the Marbleslides screen, and start creating.
Here is a link to their creations!
One of the things I love most about seeing all their projects is they aren’t perfect. The math is messy, and it’s awesome! The math that my students were taught prior to this was how to graph lines in slope-intercept form. They did do the Marbleslides activity from Desmos, so they learned about restricting the domain through that activity. Other than that, everything they figured out was on their own. I do very little to “teach” them how to create what they want. I will point them in the right direction from time to time, but for the most part they Google things if they want to learn something new.
Count It All Joy 