Instagram for Quadrilaterals

I knew my geometry classes needed to review properties of quadrilaterals and one of my coworkers had her students make posters. They looked good and filled all the requirements of the lesson (draw and describe a quadrilateral) so I decided to do the same. I had planned to give students a list of necessary elements and then charge them to be creative by making a Facebook profile, advertisement or whatever they came up with. The morning of I was worried they wouldn't be very creative. As I was getting dressed I finally figured it out: I wanted them to draw five examples, which is like five photos... they should make Instagram profiles, complete with captions, comments and hashtags! I raced to school to adjust the requirements to use the right lingo, and voila: engagement. In fact, one of my students told a student from the next class about the project and she responded "Why don't we get to do that?!" I was thrilled to be able to say "you will once we finish a few things" because once news spread about making instagrams, everyone wanted to hurry up and finish the first part of the lesson.

The posters looked great, but more importantly students spent time thinking about definitions and properties of quadrilaterals- the real goal of the lesson.

Not everyone added faces but it's such fun to
see what the artistic students are capable of!

My Favorite Caption: Four sides #AllEqual!

I had hoped to let them gallery walk and leave more comments via post-it, but a blizzard foiled my plans. Maybe next year...