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=Welcome to the CASD TTP for Geometer's Sketchpad!= To edit/contribute content to this wiki, you must be an authorized user. Email wolfer@carlisleschools.org for access. = //With Sketchpad™, you can give your students a **tangible, visual way to explore and understand ** core concepts—from numbers and operations, algebraic thinking, and geometry and measurement in elementary and middle school to algebra, geometry, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus in high school. Concepts that students frequently find difficult become very clear when they see visual representations on the screen and interact with them using Sketchpad. Participants should bring curriculum materials to work with during the workshop and will leave with Sketchpad demonstration files and student activity handouts to use in the classroom.// = = Overview of Sketchpad (Click to start video) = = media type="custom" key="4245961" =

= Getting Started =

How do I get The Geometer's Sketchpad on my classroom computers?
Email Mike Kulikosky (6th-12th grade) or Angela Lane (K-5th grade) with a request to have the software installed.

Where can I take students to use The Geometer's Sketchpad as a class?
The Swartz and Fowler computer labs have Geometer's Sketchpad installed in them. Contact the technology dept. if you would like the software installed in a lab in your building.

Where can students work with The Geometer's Sketchpad outside of class?
All computers in the Fowler Library have Geometer's Sketchpad installed for student use before school, after school, and during study halls. Since study halls often fill the library, make sure to give your student a "Research Pass" to present the librarian to ensure access to a computer.

How can students get access to the software from home?
[|A discount student version is available online through Key Curriculum Press].

= Basics = Participants can follow along and take notes with these handouts:
 * [|Basic Sketchpad Skills handout.pdf]
 * [|Sketchpad Keyboard Shortcuts.pdf]
 * [|Sketchpad Measurements Reference.pdf]
 * [|Directions for Making Multiple Pages.pdf]

Here is a [|training video] that walks you through the toolbar and all of the menu options.

Here's what we will tackle today:
 * [|How do I use the select, point, and circle tools?]
 * [|How do I use the segment, ray, and line tools?]
 * [|How do I use the text tool and custom tool?]
 * [|How do I label objects?]
 * [|How do I undo steps in Sketchpad?]
 * [|How do I use the help menus?]
 * [|How do I draw, construct, and move objects?]
 * [|How do I construct, label, and measure objects?]
 * What do I need to select before contructing a ...?
 * How do I take measurements?
 * How do I perform calculations?
 * How do I perform transformations (rotation, reflection, translation, dilation)?
 * How do I add text that can be hidden and revealed?
 * How do I add multiple pages to a file?
 * How do I print a file?
 * How do I construct a square?
 * How do I construct a rectangle?
 * How do I construct an equilateral triangle?
 * How do I construct an isosceles triangle?
 * How do I construct a right triangle?
 * [|Where can I find help using this program outside of this workshop?]

Applications & Activities
Go to the CASD Workshop drive. Open the folder "Robyn Wolfe". Open the folder "Geometer's Sketchpad Workshop". Open the folder "Ready To Go Activities". You will find folders organized by content and grade level. Browse the files and select at least one from each folder to review. Print the handout associated with the activity and try to follow the steps using Geometer's Sketchpad as if you were the student! For activities that require students to access a pre-made Sketchpad file, you MUST open the file from inside of Geometer's Sketchpad (you CANNOT open it directly from the Workshop drive!) Below is a list of available activities that I have collected from the internet:
 * Numbers & Operations
 * Multiple Models of Multiplication
 * Order of Operations
 * Approximating Solutions
 * Zooming Decimals
 * Ratio Relationships
 * Multiplying Fractions
 * Measurement
 * Areas of Regular Polygons and Circles
 * Circles & Pi
 * Volume of a Prism
 * Geometry
 * Quadrilateral Shape-Maker
 * Properties of Parallel Lines
 * Reflections Over Two Intersecting Lines
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Midpoint Quadrilaterals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Exterior Angles in a Polygon
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Chords in a Circle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Visual Pythagorean Theorem
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Angles Formed by a Transversal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Types of Triangles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Exploring Quadrilaterals
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Reflectional and Rotational Symmetry
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Proving the Pythagorean Theorem and Converse
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Algebraic Concepts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Solving Equations by Balancing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The Slope Game
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Graphing Quadratic Functions
 * <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Courier New'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Courier New'; msolist: Ignore;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Parabolas in Factored Form
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Ellipses from Congruent Triangles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Parabolas from Folded Rectangles
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Data Analysis & Probability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Box and Whiskers
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Wait for a Date Probability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Mean & Median (with video demonstration)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">PreCalculus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Stretching and Shrinking Functions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">From Dynagraphs to Cartesian Graphs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Unit Circle and Right Triangle Functions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Translation of Functions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Introduction to Radians
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Sums of Sinusoidal Functions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Parametric Functions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Matrix Transformations & Vector Addition
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Polar Graphing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Calculus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Visualizing Change in Position
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Continuity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Plotting the Derivative
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Following Tangents
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Instantaneous Rate
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Limits
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">One Type of Integral
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Online Resources
<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Here are links to libraries of more ready-to-use activities. (Remember, you cannot open a Sketchpad file directly from the internet. You will have to 'right click' the file, choose 'save target as', save the file to your user drive, open Geometer's Sketchpad, in the 'File' menu choose 'Open', and then select the file to open it!)
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Do-it-yourself
Try creating a Sketchpad activity of your own! Here are some created by teachers from CASD. (Post YOUR activity to a grade-level page on the wiki when finished so other teachers can get ideas too!) Elementary Middle School High School

Need Help?

 * Post your questions to the Discussion Board (above).