A reminder that the draft for your major course project is due **Feb 12** ( note correction!) on your personal blogs

 Hello everyone! A reminder that you should be working on the draft outline for your course project -- due Feb 5  ** correction: Feb 12*** and to be posted on each of your personal blogs for our course.

This draft outline will be worth 10% of the course mark. I will be travelling in Australia when you submit this outline, but will try to respond within the next week to ten days with feedback and a mark on this early stage of the project.

Here is what the draft project outline should include:

Format for the outline Feb 12** (corrected):

• Your name(s) and whether you are working alone or with a partner. (Partner work recommended if possible, for the advantages of collaboration
  
  
• Name of the math activity or project
  
  
• Grade level/ course, age of students, school or district
  
  
• Brief point-form outline of the mathematical topic and the embodied, arts-based, outdoors pedagogies you plan to engage (length: 1/2 page to 1 page)
  
  

Draft annotated bibliography of 5-10 articles from the literature (if working individually) or 10-20 articles (if working with a partner) that you plan to consult.

I suggest using Google Scholar or a similar comprehensive scholarly search engine to find more than the required number of articles (perhaps double the number you will end up with),  then sifting through these articles by reading the abstracts, conclusions and reference lists and skimming the articles. Choose the best, most relevant and most interesting articles as the ones you will include in your annotated bibliography.

The annotations should be included in italics following the APA style reference for each article, and should consist of 1-3 sentences that summarize the main point of the article and why you chose it.

An example (from Dr. Karl Schaffer): 
Parsley, Jason and Soriano, Christina Tsoules. “Understanding geometry in the dance studio.” Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, Volume 3, 2009 - Issue 1.
A math professor and dance professor describe their collaboration teaching a joint math and dance class in which students used their bodies to embody the Platonic solids. The students also kinesthetically explored the ellipse, created a dance as part of the class activities. and worked on ways to move in and out of the polyhedral constructions.

The outline is intended to get you started by making a commitment to your topic and getting going on it. You are certainly allowed to change aspects of your project as you work on it throughout the course!