Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Form 6.3: Course Outline with Assessment Ideas and Activities

Analytic Geometry
Module 1: Plane Analytic Geometry The Basics
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entry
Write and revise
glossary entry
2. write reflections on learning or
respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for
forum/blog entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. solve problems involving
distance formula, point-of-
division formulas, and slope
formula
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

4. calculate the angle from one
line to another
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

5. plot graphs of various
equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

examples
6. solve for intersections of
equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

7. determine an equation of a
locus
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz

8. create a Talking Worksheet Locus Workshop
rubric
View Talking
Worksheet
example
View instructor
video discussing
Talking Worksheet
and rubric
Solve assigned
Locus Problem
Create Talking
Worksheet
Locus Talking
Worksheet
9. evaluate and provide feedback
for locus workshop
Locus Workshop
rubric
Read rubric Solve and evaluate
assigned Locus
Workshop
problems
Write feedback for
assigned Locus
Workshop problems




Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Analytic Geometry
Module 2: Vectors
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning
or respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for forum/blog
entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. sketch a vector, write it in
component form, and calculate
its unit vector
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

4. sketch and calculate vector
sums and differences
Pass/fail vector
Simulation Lab
Video feedback
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Mathematica
Head to Toe
Vector Addition
CDF for
visualization
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Mathematica
Head to Toe
Vector Addition
CDF
PhET Vector
applet
Vectors Simulation
Lab
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

5. identify endpoints of a vector Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

View instructional
videos including
examples
Quiz
6. sketch and calculate scalar
multiples of vector sums and
differences
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

7. use the dot product to
calculate the angle between two
vectors and the projection of
one vector onto another
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
Mathematica Dot
Project CDF for
visualization
Mathematica
Vector Projection
CDF for
visualization
View instructional
videos including
examples
Mathematica Dot
Project CDF
Mathematica
Vector Projection
CDF
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

8. use vectors to represent
forces acting upon a body, the
resultant vector of multiple
forces, and to determine
equilibrium
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Vector Forces
Partner Activity
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Vector Forces
Partner Activity


Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Analytic Geometry
Module 3: The Line
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning or
respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for
forum/blog entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. express the equations of lines
in point-slope, two-point, slope-
intercept, and intercept form,
and sketch their graphs
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Nine Point Circle
Activity
(w/partner)

4. create and organize a matrix
that depicts characteristics of the
different forms of linear
equations
Matrix Activity Forms of Linear
Equations Matrix
Forms of Linear
Equations Matrix
5. calculate the distance between
two lines
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

6. describe families of lines and
determine when particular lines
are included or excluded from a
family
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Mastery Quiz
Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

videos including
examples




Analytic Geometry
Module 4: The Circle
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning or
respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for
forum/blog entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. write equations of circles in
standard form and general form
and sketch the graph of the circle
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

4. use equations of circles to
solve analytic geometry problems
involving arcs
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Analytic Geometry
Module 5: Conic Sections
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning
or respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for forum/blog
entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. formulate and describe a
cutting conics theory
Video feedback Read instructional
materials and
notes
Read conic
sections historical
notes
NCTM Cutting
Conics
Applet/Activity
Create video
describing Cutting
Conics Theory
4. sketch a conic section and
discuss its properties
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Parabola, Ellipse,
and Hyperbola
Explorations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

5. use the properties of the
three conic sections to solve
analytic geometry problems
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

6. write equations of conic
sections
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

7. design, create and self-
evaluate a multimedia
presentation demonstrating real
world application of conic
sections
Presentation
rubric
View example
Presentation
View instructor
video describing
Presentation and
rubric
Create real-world
conic sections
multimedia
presentation
8. evaluate and provide
feedback for peer multimedia
presentations demonstrating
real world application of conic
sections
Read rubric Write feedback for
assigned Conic
Sections Presentations








Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Analytic Geometry
Module 6: Transformations
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning or
respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for
forum/blog entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. translate conic section so its
vertex is now at the origin and
sketch conic along with both sets
of axes
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Translated
Parabolas applet
Translated Ellipses
applet
Translated
Hyperbolas applet
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

4. write the equation of a
translated conic section
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

5. identify a conic section and its
attributes from its equation
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

6. use elimination to translate
conic sections algebraicallly
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

7. rotate a conic section through
a specified angle, write the
equation of the rotated section,
and sketch the curve showing the
old and new coordinate systems
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

8. rotate axes to eliminate the xy-
term and sketch the conic section
both before and after rotation
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

9. translate conic section so its
vertex is now at the origin and
sketch conic along with both sets
of axes
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz





Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Analytic Geometry
Module 7: Curve Sketching
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning or
respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for
forum/blog entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. analyze an equation for
symmetry
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Drawing with
Symmetry applet
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

4. identify intercepts of
polynomial functions
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

5. use intercepts, end behavior
and symmetry to sketch
polynomial functions
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

6. use limits to identify all
asymptotic behavior of rational
functions
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
Asymptote of a
Curve applet
Sample Problems

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

View instructional
videos including
examples
Pair Practice
Quiz
7. use intercepts, end behavior,
asymptotic behavior, and
symmetry to sketch rational
functions
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

8. use domain and range,
intercepts, end behavior,
asymptotic behavior, and
symmetry to sketch the graph of
the relation
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

9. create an info-graphic
summarizing the principles of
curve sketch for polynomial and
rational functions
Info-graphic
rubric
View example
info-graphic
View instructor
video describing
info-graphic and
rubric
Info-graphic






Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

Analytic Geometry
Module 8: Polar Coordinates and Parametric Graphing
Objective Assessment Ideas Absorb Do Connect
1. compile, refine, and revise a
digital class glossary
Rubric for feedback
and final grade
View instructor video
describing glossary
entries and rubric
Write and revise
glossary entries
Write and revise
glossary entries
2. write reflections on learning or
respond to teacher-generated
prompts
Rubric for
forum/blog entries
Read reflection
questions/prompts
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
Write Reflections
and/or Responses
3. sketch and identify the graphs
of polar equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Graphing Polar
Equations applet
& activity
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

4. solve for intersection points of
polar equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

5. convert between polar form
and rectangular form
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Graphing Polar
Coordinates
applet & activity
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

6. identify the type and
properties of conic sections
represented by polar equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

Form adapted from Smith, R. M. Conquering the Content. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

View instructional
videos including
examples
7. sketch the graphs of conic
sections represented by polar
equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

8. eliminate a parameter and
sketch the curve represented by
parametric equations
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz
Read instructional
materials and
notes
View instructional
videos including
examples
Investigate
Parametric Curves
Applet & Activity
Sample Problems
Pair Practice
Quiz

9. create polar graphing art OR a
presentation on real world uses
of polar coordinates
Polar Art Rubric
OR Polar
Presentation
Rubric
View example art
project or
presentation
View instructor
video describing
project,
presentation and
appropriate rubric
Polar Art or Polar
Presentation