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There are many links with activities directly on the Sketchpad website, as well as sample activities from other sources. If you choose to print portions of these, please do so double-sided to save paper.

Online Tips for Sketchpad Commands This provides a good basic explanation of the individual commands.

[|General Lesson Resources from Sketchpad] //There are MANY different lesson choices here. Working through any of the introductory ones will help you to build your Sketchpad knowledge.//

[|101 Project Ideas Download] Scroll down the page and you can get the GSP files to help you learn about some of these projects.

Ask to borrow my [|Geometry Activities for Middle Schoolers] book. Work through the animation tours with a friend.

Sample Activities from a Middle School GSP Book





//[|Spark]// //This resource has some articles about Sketchpad, along with an Activity Sampler (pp17-48).// //I'll print this set of activities and ask the office staff to put it outside my office door.//

[|Full Workshop Guide] Scan this for activities to help you figure out a particular task.

[|Circles and Lines Activities] These are from Annenberg, another big provider of technology instruction.

This morning one of my colleagues came and asked for a regular hexagon print out for a test. Sketchpad to the rescue! Here are some other things to try.
 * What should I choose to do?**

Explore the **Pythagorean Theorem** by building a right triangle with squares on each side. See what happens if you construct semi-circles or equilateral triangles on each side. You can use the measure command to find lengths and areas.

Design a **tessellation** by using the rotate and reflect commands.

Look through your challenge problems from the geometry and measurement units. What pictures can you draw with Sketchpad to enhance the understanding of a particular problem?

Here's a fun project that I made with GSP.