Team MMM: 46/50Rubric(M1) Works Cited/ Bibliography (an absolute must): There is a clear page of links and properly documents resources used throughout the project; MLA formatting used for the citation of sources.543210(M2) Sinusoid waves application in daily life: Research is evident about the applicability of sinusoids. An explanation of how to graph sinusoids is complete and thoroughly explained. (transformations).543210I really liked the applications you used. You went into the amplitude and frequency. I do wish you would have included the use of the Hertz measurement as you talked about frequency and its meaning. I LOVED the use of the pendulum and making the graph for it, so people could really VISUALIZE how the amplitude, period, and frequency come together is these graphs of real situations and cyclical movement.(M1) Page Layout: Site is creative, organized, owned by the students (no is this good enough?), and is easy navigation.543210I really felt you did own your descriptions and explanations. Your wording to your explanations really was a strength of the website. You had easy to understand language to explain this phenomenon of sound. The wiki was well organized with the pages. I would suggest more paragraphs to break up some of your information. Your words were good, but some may not stop to read since words can be overwhelming.I liked how I could find what I needed on the side bar and go there to find a simple explanation.Your home page was a little weird. Did you try doing some research on how to edit the wikispaces homepage? I feel that if someone came to your website at first, there initial reaction would not be too interested because lets face it, who wants to read a lot of well-thought out information. Your visuals were helpful in showing your ability to create connections and understanding for your viewers.(M2) Objective Achievement: The objective as outlined in the objective sheet are fully met; webpage is complete and is a recommended resource/hit 543210I do believe your site would have created active learning. I again liked the pendulum page. I think you could be responsible for some students AHA moment out there as they would work through some of the simple harmonic problems. Again, you had a lot of good, well-written information for a beginner to understand, but words do not always grab the attention.

(M2) Visual/ Graphs: The following elements of the sinusoid graphs were EXPLAINED thoroughly: amplitude, frequency, period, key points. There is one of each- a sine and cosine visual- that include various transformations.543210Did I mention I liked your pendulum page? It was a GREAT visual. You had good visuals that went along with and confirmed your explanation on how to graph. This goes back to the layout, but do break up your descriptions a bit, so you have a spot for explaining period and showing how to calculate, a spot for explaining amplitude and showing how to calculate/graph, a spot for That way the words will not be so overwhelming in your descriptions.(M2) Radio Research: Research and progress of understanding how radios work was included in site and is related back to the study of frequency/amplitude/waves. Sites research is thorough, correct, and interesting. 543210I really enjoyed reading through your description of how radios work. I hope when you are jamming out in your cars or turning the dial, you think about the waves that have been converted and are being spewed from your speakers.(E.C) Fox Hole Radio: Students built a working foxhole radio. There was explanation in how radios work. The students included a how to-build guide for their foxhole radio543210

Guiding questions (if you do not know where to start)How does sound transmit across space and time?How does the radio in my car work?What do sound waves and electromagnetic waves have to do with radios?What do the stations mean on my radio? For example what does 91.1 FM really mean?

Team MGM- 39.5/50Rubric(M1) Works Cited/ Bibliography (an absolute must): There is a clear page of links and properly documents resources used throughout the project; MLA formatting used for the citation of sources.543210Did you owe any credits? For example, where did you get the information about the radio wave range from 30-300 hz? I do not expect you to be experts, so I need to be able to trust your information. Also, we know we have to give credit where it is due.(M2) Sinusoid waves application in daily life: Research is evident about the applicability of sinusoids. An explanation of how to graph sinusoids is complete and thoroughly explained. (transformations).543210I like the applications and how you really used sound. I liked the initial introduction of we are going to show you a visual of a real life example of a wave with a frequency of 240 HZ. An explanation of exactly what that is would be good, like playing that pitch. I would have liked to have definitions included in the process of explaning these applications. You used frequency, but what is it? The amount of vibrations in 1 second. You had an example of a situation with 240 HZ, so 240 cycles in one second. When you solved for your period you got 480pi. So in other words it takes about 1508 seconds to complete a full cycle. This does not make sense. That is because you only solved for b. You never solved for the period, which you needed for a successful equation and visual.How come you never had an a that you looked at and applied? (M1) Page Layout: Site is creative, organized, owned by the students (no is this good enough?), and is easy navigation.54.543210I would say this was creative. I have never had a group ask to make an informational video. You owned it, but I would say it could have been organized a bit better in terms of being able to clearly see what was going on. (M2) Objective Achievement: The objective as outlined in the objective sheet are fully met; webpage is complete and is a recommended resource/hit 543210Keep in mind the objective is to get newby students engaged in the graphing of the functions. You want to make sure you use the language that is fitting for you targeted audience in this objective. I think it created interest, but it did not quite allow students to be active in learning how to graph these sine waves and use them. I cannot recommend your video due to a major error in the graphing instructions. (M2) Visual/ Graphs: The following elements of the sinusoid graphs were EXPLAINED thoroughly: amplitude, frequency, period, key points. 543.53210There was a small error in the explanation of what the b does in the equation, or in other words that multiplier on the x. You mentioned that is will change the period and the amplitude.There was also a flaw in the graph you drew. The calculation for your period was incorrectly done. I would have liked to know exactly what period meant. You showed the equation on how to calculate period, but you never said what it was- same with amplitude. More examples may have worked to help solidify this skill of graphing with amplitude, frequency, period, and key point calculations.(M2) Radio Research: Research and progress of understanding how radios work was included in site and is related back to the study of frequency/amplitude/waves. Sites research is thorough, correct, and interesting. 543210This information was good and interesting. There is still more to be said, but you got a good sense of it. It is not accurate to say that the range of radio waves are from 30 to 300 hz. What about our dials? What does it mean to tune into 91.1 FM? (E.C) Fox Hole Radio: Students built a working foxhole radio. There was explanation in how radios work. The students included a how to-build guide for their foxhole radio543210

Guiding questions (if you do not know where to start)How does sound transmit across space and time?How does the radio in my car work?What do sound waves and electromagnetic waves have to do with radios?What do the stations mean on my radio? For example what does 91.1 FM really mean?

Team Jaz: 47/50Rubric(M1) Works Cited/ Bibliography (an absolute must): There is a clear page of links and properly documents resources used throughout the project; MLA formatting used for the citation of sources.543210(M2) Sinusoid waves application in daily life: Research is evident about the applicability of sinusoids. An explanation of how to graph sinusoids is complete and thoroughly explained. (transformations).543210I do wish there would have been another example maybe WITH the transformations, so a beginner student would have confidence in graphing transformed sine waves. You did label what the a,b,c,d did to the function on your home page, but there was no example of how to work with those. (M1) Page Layout: Site is creative, organized, owned by the students (no is this good enough?), and is easy navigation.543210This was very easy to work with. It was a very nicely put together site. (M2) Objective Achievement: The objective as outlined in the objective sheet are fully met; webpage is complete and is a recommended resource/hit 5 43210Your site was very interesting. I am going to be happy with presenting your website as an example. It is one of the best ones I have. I do believe a student trying to learn about graphing sine would benefit from the information. Again, I do wish there had been an example of the transformations and how to do that, but there was definite interest about graphing trig functions that would have been created with this site.(M2) Visual/ Graphs: The following elements of the sinusoid graphs were EXPLAINED thoroughly: amplitude, frequency, period, key points. 543210Good visuals all around. You provided several visual examples.The amplitude definition in the video was a little off. The amplitude is the distance from the sine graphs center to the maxs and mins. Your website also said the amplitude was the distance from zero. Again, the definition was a bit hard to understand if the student did not have an understanding of what zero was. (M2) Radio Research: Research and progress of understanding how radios work was included in site and is related back to the study of frequency/amplitude/waves. Sites research is thorough, correct, and interesting. 543210Everything was related well. I feel students will go through your site with interest and learn about the relevance of the amplitude/frequency I will say the explanation of exactly what 99.5 megahertz means would be helpful. This would be an excellent place to put on some understanding of exactly how many cycles are going on. It would also give the average person a perspective of the intensity of the types of waves out there! This could have been the example of you real working sinusoid equation.(E.C) Fox Hole Radio: Students built a working foxhole radio. There was explanation in how radios work. The students included a how to-build guide for their foxhole radio543210The radio wave transmission was something I had not seen before! That was cool. Zack should have gone into more of what was happening with creating an electromagnetic field which created those waves/signals that the radio picked up.

Team Jaz: 51/50Rubric(M1) Works Cited/ Bibliography (an absolute must): There is a clear page of links and properly documents resources used throughout the project; MLA formatting used for the citation of sources.543210(M2) Sinusoid waves application in daily life: Research is evident about the applicability of sinusoids. An explanation of how to graph sinusoids is complete and thoroughly explained. (transformations).543210I do wish there would have been another example maybe WITH the transformations, so a beginner student would have confidence in graphing transformed sine waves. You did label what the a,b,c,d did to the function on your home page, but there was no example of how to work with those. (M1) Page Layout: Site is creative, organized, owned by the students (no is this good enough?), and is easy navigation.543210This was very easy to work with. It was a very nicely put together site. You really did own this project and its organization, Jayda. Good job!(M2) Objective Achievement: The objective as outlined in the objective sheet are fully met; webpage is complete and is a recommended resource/hit 5 43210Your site was very interesting. I am going to be happy with presenting your website as an example. It is one of the best ones I have. I do believe a student trying to learn about graphing sine would benefit from the information. Again, I do wish there had been an example of the transformations and how to do that, but there was definite interest that would have been created with this site.(M2) Visual/ Graphs: The following elements of the sinusoid graphs were EXPLAINED thoroughly: amplitude, frequency, period, key points. 54.543210Good visuals all around. You provided several visual examples.The amplitude definition in the video was a little off. The distance from the sine graphs centers to the maxs and mins. Your website also said the amplitude was the distance from zero. Again, the definition was a bit hard to understand if the student did not have an understanding of what zero was. (M2) Radio Research: Research and progress of understanding how radios work was included in site and is related back to the study of frequency/amplitude/waves. Sites research is thorough, correct, and interesting. 543210Everything was related well. I feel students will go through your site with interest and learn about the relevance of the amplitude/frequency(E.C) Fox Hole Radio: Students built a working foxhole radio. There was explanation in how radios work. The students included a how to-build guide for their foxhole radio543210The radio wave transmission was something I had not seen before! That was cool. Zack should have gone into more of what was happening with creating an electromagnetic field which created those waves/signals that the radio picked up.

Jessica, Jordan, Tiffany, Collin: 45/50Rubric(M1) Works Cited/ Bibliography (an absolute must): There is a clear page of links and properly documents resources used throughout the project; MLA formatting used for the citation of sources.543210(M2) Sinusoid waves application in daily life: Research is evident about the applicability of sinusoids. An explanation of how to graph sinusoids is complete and thoroughly explained. (transformations).543210Your Powerpoint had very good explanation of how to graph sinusoids. There was a lot to it, and a new student to this content could get overwhelmed, but then you had the video working it out too. That was great. I do feel like we are missing some of the applications of these sinusoids.(M1) Page Layout: Site is creative, organized, owned by the students (no is this good enough?), and is easy navigation.54.543210Good layout. Everything was there. I do feel your group did a good job in taking ownership of certain roles to create this functioning website. I was not able to get the PP to work on the website, but I was able to download it and view it, so that was a good choice. Your funny discussion tab did not take me anymore either. I was excited to hear what funny discussion you had about this.The unit circle needed more attention. If you are going to include something like that, which has its relevancies, you should express them instead of just featuring it and having no explanation.(M2) Objective Achievement: The objective as outlined in the objective sheet are fully met; webpage is complete and is a recommended resource/hit 543210The student comes away from this video with a good understanding of how to graph sinusoids. You have a good break down of vocabulary and steps to graph. I cannot say the student would know exactly what the waves they graphed have anything to do with a radio wave or sound waves. You mentioned simple harmonic motion. You have simple harmonic motion as a swing back and forth, but how is what Jessica graphed anything to do with that. Simple harmonic motion can also be sounds dealing with the radio application you mentioned, but what did Jessicas graph have anything to do with that? I do not feel the connections of the skills in graphing sinusoids and their applications were as strong as they could be. (M2) Visual/ Graphs: The following elements of the sinusoid graphs were EXPLAINED thoroughly: amplitude, frequency, period, key points. There is one of each- a sine and cosine visual- that include various transformations.54.543210You had good visuals that would help grab the attention of the viewer. I like how you had the PowerPoint and the video to direct us through graphing the transformations. These visuals were very helpful in teaching how to graph.How come the cosine had the shape that it did?(M2) Radio Research: Research and progress of understanding how radios work was included in site and is related back to the study of frequency/amplitude/waves. Sites research is thorough, correct, and interesting. 543210I cannot say I got a clear sense of how waves were applied to the radio. You mentioned how the amplitude came into a play a couple different ways: the sound volume and the pulses of the electromagnetic waves can have stronger amplitudes that create clearer/less staticky sounds. What about the relevance of frequency?There is a lot to know about the waves around us dealing with radios.Here are some good websites that could help with building this portion of your website (some of them are your peers): http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/radio-call-letters and http://curiosity.discovery.com/question/radio-call-letters.(E.C) Fox Hole Radio: Students built a working foxhole radio. There was explanation in how radios work. The students included a how to-build guide for their foxhole radio543210

Team GEC: Callie 39.5/50Rubric(M1) Works Cited/ Bibliography (an absolute must): There is a clear page of links and properly documents resources used throughout the project; MLA formatting used for the citation of sources.543210(M2) Sinusoid waves application in daily life: Research is evident about the applicability of sinusoids. An explanation of how to graph sinusoids is complete and thoroughly explained. (transformations).543210You related the waves to jump-roping and radios. Again, I do not know if you watched this video or not. From your website, I cannot assess your ability to explain how sinusoid graphs apply. (M1) Page Layout: Site is creative, organized, owned by the students (no is this good enough?), and is easy navigation.5432.5210I cannot say you owned your site. A lot of the material and objectives are relayed onto other sources. I would have liked to see your research transformed into your own applications/ideas. You, as a student, are well aware of the lack of relevance in some of the things we learn. It was up to you to put some relevance out there. I do not think that this alone did that. You also had a link to jump roping. Did you know the video did not have anything going on with it for the last half? I thought I was going to How radios work as your link indicated.You mentioned you would rather do a test because this took a long time. I gave that time so you would create and make something of your learning that showed true understanding. I cannot say that time was well used. I feel you have a lot of opinions on what makes a good teacher. I will say a good math teacher needs to make his/her students communicate math and the understanding and concepts. I did an internship a couple summers ago, and I did math for a company. But, that math would have been useless without proper presentation and communication of my findings. That is the true test of math. Can you make others understand what you have arrived at?(M2) Objective Achievement: The objective as outlined in the objective sheet are fully met; webpage is complete and is a recommended resource/hit 543.53210I do not believe we met the objective fully in helping a student understand how to graph. The links provided would maybe get them a little more active. You could have done a more engaging how waves relate to radios video than what you provided.(M2) Visual/ Graphs: The following elements of the sinusoid graphs were EXPLAINED thoroughly: amplitude, frequency, period, key points. 543210This was well done. The breakdown of the different transformations was nice to see. I like how each transformation had a visual. I do feel the explanation of the transformations was lacking. The language was not quite meeting the objective of getting that new learner to understand what was going on. For example, the definition of period was not mentioned. You said how to find the period, but that beginner grapher would not know what it was. (M2) Radio Research: Research and progress of understanding how radios work was included in site and is related back to the study of frequency/amplitude/waves. Sites research is thorough, correct, and interesting. 543.53210You found a very informational video on how radios worked. It was correct, thorough, but not your own. I can only hope you sat through the 7 minutes, and picked up the bits and pieces that related how radios will pick up these waves all around us and interprets them. I did learn that the colors are created by wavelengths as well. I had forgotten about that. (E.C) Fox Hole Radio: Students built a working foxhole radio. There was explanation in how radios work. The students included a how to-build guide for their foxhole radio543210

Guiding questions (if you do not know where to start)How does sound transmit across space and time?How does the radio in my car work?What do sound waves and electromagnetic waves have to do with radios?What do the stations mean on my radio? For example what does 91.1 FM really mean?