Math 8 students created stained-glass windows last year and could be the beginning of a tradition. The color, design, and creativity were the talk of the school with parents, other students, and my co-teachers! One teacher shared he looked forward to this time of year partly because of the 8th grade stained-glass windows. I made a few changes to what was expected this year to make the project more involved and to use pieces from Bloom's Taxonomy.
I will continue to smooth out edges and should have this project about perfect right before my 5 years are up! To begin, I shared a Power Point presentation on the history of stained-glass windows and how they are created today. I wanted students to research and brainstorm their own thoughts and ideas about these windows but did not have time. Students created a glossary of the twenty geometric figures they needed to include in their window. They wrote definitions, drew examples and gave applications for these terms. They looked through examples and created a rough draft of their window, then when approved, created a final draft.
We took two days for the final steps in our window creation; one day for drawing the black lines and the second day for filling in our shapes with color. After spring break, students returned and assessed another student's window to make certain all the shapes were implemented. This was a great time for review as several students had forgotten some definitions and had to look them up again in their textbook. I have posted several pictures below as students were assessing windows with each other. Enjoy!
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