The first artifact I have chosen is a lesson plan that I wrote for a high school geometry class. This lesson involves students discovering how to make geometric constructions using math compasses, protractors, and straight edges. Included with the lesson is a PowerPoint presentation that I made to review all  the material with the students. The presentation includes links to a website that demonstrates how to make the constructions as well. This lesson uses a lot of different forms of technology as well as gives students the opportunity to be "hands-on" with math. This lesson especially connects to two of the sub-points of Standard 4: "Teachers differentiate instruction to support the learning needs of all students," and "Teachers use resources effectively, including technology, to enhance student learning." (Files 1 & 2)

The second artifact I have chosen is a Project-Based Lesson that I taught and facilitated while student teaching at Wadsworth. The lesson entitled "Shipwrecked" is a two-day activity that is designed to help students develop their problem-solving skills. This fun activites involves using real-world examples, such as watching the temparture of a cooling cup of coffee, to determine what type of function the students need to work with. The students then have the task of coming up with an equation to determine the temperature of a cooling corpse related to the time the body was killed. This activity involves logarithms and exponential equations as well as problem solving-skills to correctly identify the murderer. (File 3)