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- Date:
September 2003
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- Title:
An Internet Fractal Lesson Plan
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- Teacher's Name: Diana Lewis
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- Parish:
Monroe City Schools
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- School:
Neville High
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- Email:
diana.lewis@mcschools.net
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- Subject Area: Geometry
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- Level: 7-12
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- Topics: Art,
Language Arts, and Mathematics
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- Learning Objectives: The learner will go on an Internet scavenger hunt
to learn more about fractals and then will make a fractal of
his/her own using "Mandelbrot Explorer".
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- Louisiana Content Standards:
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- ELA-5-M2
- locating and evaluating information sources;
- CE-1VA-H6
- producing works of art which describe
and connect art with other disciplines
G-2-M
- identifying, describing, comparing, constructing,
and classifying geometric figures and concepts;
G-7-M
- demonstrating
the connection of geometry to the other strands and to real-life
situations;
G-1-H
- identifying,
describing, comparing, constructing, and classifying geometric
figures in two and three dimensions using technology where
- appropriate to explore and make conjectures
about geometric concepts and figures;
Materials:
- Computer with Internet Connection
- Blank computer disk (optional for saving
student's created fractal)
- Time:
1-2 days
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- Procedure:
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- 1. After opening a web browser such as
Netscape or Internet Express, type in the following web address
(with no spaces):
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http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/viewTrack.do?number=92498&nocache=1791771943
- 2. Follow the directions in the top window
while looking at the web site in the bottom window. Each question's
web page is provided in the
- window on the left.
- 3. Record your answers to the questions
on the worksheet provided by your teacher.
- 4. Make a fractal of your own using the
instructions given at the end of the worksheet.
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- Explorations and Extensions:
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- 1) Take a field trip outside to discover
fractals in nature.
- 2) Explore the sites listed in "Other
Internet Sites" below to get more information about fractals.
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- Evaluation Tools/Opportunities:
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- 1) Write a report on fractals using the
Internet and recording sites.
- 2) Write in a Journal about fractal findings
in nature in a Journal.
- 3) Bring an object to class that demonstrates
the fractal idea.
- 4) Worksheet mentioned at the beginning
of this lesson.
- 5) Fractal created by the student using
"Mandelbrot Explorer".
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- Other Internet Sites:
- The Fractal Microscope
- http://storm.shodor.org/eoe/mandy/
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- A
Fractal Lesson
- http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/frac/
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- Sprott's Fractal Gallery
- http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/fractals.htm
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- Coolmath Fractals
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractals.html -
- Personal Comments from the Author:
The worksheet will give the students
a brief introduction to the fractals they are about to explore.
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- Feedback: If
you are not the author but used this lesson plan, please send
your comments to the author.
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