This video is sponsored by ViewSonic.
I'm going to build out an entire lesson
using Whiteboard by myViewboard in order
to show you everything you need to know
to use it in your classroom.
I'm going to be using the Windows version of Whiteboard
on this interactive Viewsonic ViewBoard.
You do not need a ViewBoard though in order to use Whiteboard.
So this lesson is going to be a Pre-Algebra lesson on square roots,
and I like to have essential questions in my classroom,
some of which that guide us throughout the year,
like the essential question of
In what ways can we utilize math in the real world?
And more specifically, this lesson I'm going to have students
explore the essential question
In what ways can square roots help you design your future dorm room?
And so Whiteboard is kind of nice in that not only is it this infinite canvas,
but it has multiple pages that kind of serve as slides for my lesson.
So this first one, I am going to use the text tool
and I am going to make my essential question right here in the middle.
And you can do all the normal text editing stuff.
Bold, font, sizes, color.
And the thing about having this be in a future college dorm is
I thought it would be more fun for students,
a little bit more exciting to think about their future college dorm
and what role square roots could play in that.
So I'm going to click on this select tool
so I can move this in the middle.
I'm going to make it larger,
and I'm starting this so students know exactly
where we are going with this lesson.
So I'm going to add a new page; this is going to serve
as my second slide by just clicking on this plus sign right here.
And I want to engage my students and hook them in by having them
just explore this relationship between squares and area.
And I want to do that by having them look at three images.
So instead of going to Google images and searching for the images
and then bringing them back to Whiteboard,
I'm going to use the Magic Box feature and I'm going to be talking
about the Magic Box quite a bit in this video.
And right here you're going to see an image search option.
And the first image that I want to look for is a chessboard.
I'm looking for a top down view of a chessboard
because I think that's a good example
of squares and area and some relationships
to square roots that we can show from that.
So let's take this one right here.
I'm just going to click and drag it,
and now I'm going to find two more images.
All right, so I've got my three images here.
Let me resize them so I can kind of make the best use of the space
and make this one a little bit bigger.
Now, I want students to look at these three images in the lesson
and then have them reflect on what they see,
what they think and what they wonder.
And one of the tools I like to use to document those observations is Padlet.
But instead of opening up a different browser
and then finding the Padlet and then looking at that
and then coming back to this whiteboard,
I can just pull the Padlet directly into Whiteboard.
So I'm going to go to the next page
and I am going to open up the embedded browser.
And so this is a browser inside of Whiteboard.
Let me pull out my Padlet.
So here's my Padlet and I would have the students actually
pull this up on their own devices while they're looking at the images.
If you've never used Padlet, they can just document what they see
in any of these columns. 'I see squares' and then this becomes
a bunch of observations that all of my students have made.
I actually like this feature down here where you can add
this website as a widget on the canvas.
If I click on it, you'll see it kind of minimizes the browser
and then it gives me just this, this, this cleaner interface
of the website that doesn't have like the URL or anything like that.
So I can make this fill up the screen and then go back and forth
between the images and these student observations right here.
And often what I would do is I'd show this to first period,
but then I also want second period to do it,
but I don't want second period
to see all the first period answers,
but I don't want to lose all of first period answers,
but I don't want to create another Padlet either
so I can use the screenshot feature after my first period's done
and then take a screenshot of this page
and you can see that it popped up back there
behind this one right here, and I can even keep that hidden.
And then during second period I can just clean off this board
and then students will start in second period with a clean board.
But then I can say, Oh, well, that's interesting that all of you
made these observations, because if I look at first periods here,
they made somewhat similar observations or different observations,
and I have that documentation here, and I can even go ahead and annotate
the screenshot that I had right there to point out
anything that I want to emphasize.
So now I want to allow the students to explore this
relationship between area and squares.
And so I'm going to add a new page.
And what I like to do in my class with this is actually give them
a bunch of Cheez-Its. Cheez-Its are nice
little squares that you can manipulate
and having food in the classroom is fun.
But I want to model what I want them to do with the Cheez-Its.
And so I'm going to use this shape feature down here and use the square.
And then you can even see as I build out the square,
it actually shows me the dimensions of it so I can get it to where
it's just about 15 by 15 here, let's make that one a little bit smaller.
There we go.
And I want this to look like a Cheez-It.
So I'm going to use this little bucket to fill it in with orange
and I'll keep the black background.
And I like to ask students to make a square using two Cheez-Its.
And then when they say they can't, I'm like, 'Well, what do you mean?'
Why can't you make a square
So I can actually have them come up to the ViewBoard.
Let me copy this shape and then let me paste it
using this paste button down here.
And then they can actually go in and say
like, well, you can't, you put them next to each other,
but it creates a rectangle, it doesn't create a square.
And so then we begin to discuss, well, how many Cheez-Its would
you need to be able to make the shape of a square
without overlapping your Cheez-Its?
And then let me paste a couple more.
They will tell me, well, you need four Cheez-Its
to be able to make a square.
Also fun side note for you math teachers out there.
You can show the measurements of these things,
which is super cool and super helpful
if you're doing anything with measurements and geometry.
So now we've got this visual of an area of four Cheez-Its,
and I say, Well, how long is each side?
Well, it's two Cheez-Its long. And I begin to tell them
that that side length is something we call the square root.
So the square root of four in this case would be two.
I have them fill out a graphic organizer on a Google Doc,
so I'm going to pull in that graphic organizer so I can model,
what I want them to fill in and how I want them to fill it in.
Let me add a page, go back to my magic box here
and find the Google Drive resources that I have.
And you can see my three pages of the Google doc that they have.
This works with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Google Slides,
any of those types of documents you can import into Whiteboard.
I want to bring in just the first two pages here.
We're going to import it as an object and let's import it in a portrait mode.
So now when I click on the document,
you're going to see that it's locked by default.
Let me unlock it, so that way I can move it around and resize it.
If I'd like, I'm going to crop off this top part using this crop feature here,
and because we don't really need that.
And then I'll click okay and you'll see it looks like it
didn't crop, but it's actually behind this original image.
So let me just delete this one right here
right here and let me bring up this cropped one right here.
Let me change my marker to read by double tapping it.
So now I can say, all right, well,
when we had an area of four Cheez-Its,
our square root, our side length was two.
And then when we had an area of nine, our square root was three.
And I tell them to skip the radical form for now.
We'll come back to that. But a fun thing with each class
is I give them the challenge which class can build
the biggest area of Cheez-Its and they have to collaborate.
But then when they make the biggest one,
they could take a picture of it with their phone
and then using the Companion app to Whiteboard,
they can actually throw their photo to the Whiteboard
and then the photo appears right here.
I can move it on over to this side and then label this as period one
and then maybe give the the stats of the area and the square root
that period one was able to create.
Create a little friendly competition between the classes.
The Throw feature is one of the premium features of Whiteboard,
but stick around and I will tell you how you can get
all of the premium features for free as an educator.
Then I want to actually explain what some of the terminology is
when it comes to square roots.
This is just the second page of their notes.
I can make note of this radical symbol and the relationship to the images
in the visuals that they have been building.
And then we can even go back to the graphic organizer
and we can now begin to fill in the radical form of the organizer.
I could write it in, but one of the nice features of the Magic Box
is if you look at this little measurements
and tools, the section right here,
if you click on this 'y plus x squared' icon,
it's going to open up a math input panel
where you can actually write the math
and then it gives you the digital output of that math.
So now let me insert this right here
and you can see it's got the nice digital math.
Maybe your handwriting is not great
or you just want them to see what it looks like in digital math.
And I can put that right in there.
So after they fill in the graphic organizer and we've talked about that,
I do want to go to a new page
and have a quick formative assessment.
See, are they picking up some of these basic
square root principles before I move on?
So I'm going to go to my magic box and create a poll,
which is a little checkmark and question mark icon right here.
I want to create a multiple choice question here.
And let's see, let's ask them what is the square root of 144?
Let me put my options in here.
So I've got my options. I'm going to mark the correct answer as well.
And then I can say how long I want them to be able
to answer this question
Now for the students to actually take this assessment.
They can open up the Companion app on their phone.
Or if I click on the name of my Whiteboard up here,
you can see behind my poll it gives not only a QR code
but also a URL that students on their laptops can just type in.
And then they will get to the participant panel for my Whiteboard
and be able to answer the questions that way.
So once everyone has gotten to the participant panel,
either through the app or through the website, I can click on play.
And then from the student view, they will just go to the polls section,
they'll put their name in, they'll see the question,
they'll put their answer and then submit it,
since that's the only question,
I can go ahead and stop the poll right there
and then I can see the results of the poll.
So this gives me a good idea of are we ready to move on
or do we need to stop and talk about some of these concepts
before moving on and you can create
a bunch of questions beforehand and then have the students
go at their own pace and give them about five,
10 minutes to get through it
and then reflect on all of that data.
The poll feature is one of the premium features of Whiteboard,
but myVewBoard has allowed all educators free access
to what they call their entity account.
All I have to do is go to the link that's in the description.
It'll take you to a form and then you'll just fill it out and say,
I'd like to sign up my organization,
and then they will give you entity access.
So you have free access to all of the premium features
like the throw feature, the poll feature and a lot more.
So now I want students to be able to elaborate on what they know.
And this is where we get to
that essential question that we started with
of having them elaborate to me
how square routes can be utilized to design their future dorm room.
So I'm going to add a new page and I'm going to type
in a few of the parameters that they'll need to know
for this elaboration activity.
So the big thing is they want to be able
to say how big of a dorm room
they're going to need in order to be able
to fit all of their current bedroom furniture into that dorm.
So my hope is that this will bring up questions like, well,
what do you mean by how big
or how big were your your Cheez-Its?
How did we use that?
Talk about area, talk about length by width.
And it's a square dorm room, which is one of the stipulations.
And so the idea is if I've got an area of 144 square feet,
then my walls are 12 foot by 12 foot.
And that's kind of the direction I'm hoping that they go.
And so before I even have them really start
designing this, I do want to show them this video
that I think will be a nice inspiration to them
on how to make the most of small spaces.
It's an IKEA video, so let's go to the magic box.
Let's go to YouTube and I'm going to search IKEA
square meter challenge and hopefully that will bring it up right here.
'Tiny bedroom For Two' let me click and drag this here.
And this is nice again that I can just have the
YouTube video ready to go on this page.
And I want them to show me what they discovered
and how big of a dorm room it'll have to be.
They can use an online floor plan designer, or if they would like,
they can actually create a Whiteboard project of their own
and then go down to this background option.
And there's lots of backgrounds,
but the one that's going to be useful for them
is this grid paper one right here.
Let me design something real quick
to serve as a model for the students.
So here is my model of what they could create.
It's just images and annotations.
And you'll notice that I put the dimensions
and the area is there as well as a drawing of a
my actual floor plan and some evaluation criteria.
So they know exactly what they are trying to accomplish,
what they need to show.
And in order to communicate all this to me, I'm
going to have them create a screencast
which, if they choose to use Whiteboard
as their app to create all of this stuff
that screencast is built in right here
and all of the screencast that you have been watching
has actually been the built in screen recorder within Whiteboard .
This project would be a perfect example of something
a student could put in their student portfolio documenting
the work that they're doing throughout the year.
Check out this video right here
where we walk you through exactly how to set up
and utilize student portfolios in your classroom
using Google Sites. We'll see you over there.