I love Bitmojis! I know it'south not for anybody, only they just make me happy. They make students happy too! My students beloved when I put "stickers" on their digital work. They sometimes fifty-fifty give me stickers as suggestions when they submit a projection. A few years ago, I wrote a web log postal service nearly creating custom feedback stickers and putting them in Google Keep for ease of use.

Today I'thou going to update that post with animated gif stickers. I mean, the simply thing that could exist better than Bitmoji stickers is animated Bitmoji stickers!!!

Open a new Google Slides (or PowerPoint, or Keynote if y'all want an piece of cake transparent background) and become to file – folio setup, select custom and change the size to 8 x viii inches.

If you are using PowerPoint or Keynote, change the background to Transparent.

Select the Bitmoji y'all desire to apply from the Chrome Extension and drag it to the Google Slide. Tutorial here

Animate your sticker slide by slide! Tutorial hither

Here are a few ideas:

Add word by word and or a moving arrow

Add together letter by letter of the alphabet

Moving Bitmoji

Sparkles!!!

Plow your sticker into an animated GIF

Google Slides – TallTweets.com is then like shooting fish in a barrel to use (tutorial here). It allows y'all to simply load your presentation with out whatsoever additional steps.

If y'all Actually desire a transparent background, the easiest way is to use PowerPoint or Keynote. They both accept export as GIF options (come on Google!!!)

Open keep.google.com. By placing your paradigm in Google Proceed, yous can simply drag your sticker into any Google Slide or Medico you want to use them in.

Create a new note with image.

Select your sticker. I don't title information technology because it will drag the title with it. You can create a label chosen stickers or feedback so you can sort if you lot would like.

Now open something to give feedback on. The prototype below is a Google Slide. On the RIGHT you will see 3 icons. The middle one is Google Proceed.

It opens your Google Go along and you lot tin can run into your stickers. Select the one you lot want and elevate information technology over.

Resize.

Washed!

I know you're thinking, this is slap-up for unproblematic just I teach middle or high school. Your secondary students will Love these. They are still just kids!

Enjoy!

Relationships are then very important. If you desire to connect with your students, you need to know your students and they need to know y'all and each other. I try to build a climate and civilization in my classroom of family. I want it to be a safe space to acquire, fail, share, and grow. Students will never feel comfortable doing this if they don't know each other.

Hither are a few activities I've done to assistance us go to know 1 some other and create that family climate.

Google Grade Survey

This document does more than gather data. I play a game at the of class periods that run a little brusk. See, if my students become washed early, they pack up and migrate toward the door. This is problematic because and then many students clustered effectually the door causes issues (and our administration has made it an expectation to NOT line upwards at the door). I will open the spreadsheet from this course and play guess who. Now let's utilize some common sense hither! I practice ask students some personal data similar internet access and food allergies. Practice NOT Apply THIS Information for guess who. I know you lot won't merely I'm putting it out there Only in case. Students honey to play this game and they get to know each other a trivial as nosotros go. It also keeps them in their seat and engaged until the bell rings. This Google Course idea came from Jennifer Gonzalez. I constitute it in this blog post with many other great ideas including ice breakers. The guess who game idea came from a retired administrator I had during my specialist classes.

Collaborative Slides

I accept been using this slide activity for quite a few years now. I similar it because we acquire about each other the very first mean solar day but I can as well teach students how to use Google Slides, a tool we use Ofttimes in my class. I assign it through Google Classroom and every educatee has access to the SAME document. This means you need to make a re-create for each grade. I forgot in one case and had to make a copy of the completed activity and delete the slides the students had added. Not a complete disaster just wasted time. I mail service this activity at the TOP of Google Classroom so students can admission it whatever time. I also make certain any new students who join us later in the year complete it (same with the Google Form).

A NEW Collaborative Slide

This is a NEW collaborative slide idea I saw on Twitter. Pamela Bradley (@4pambradley) shared on behalf of Lauren Vining. I LOVED Information technology, and non merely because it had a Bitmoji (I requite other options BTW). I wanted the lockers to be a little bigger and I wasn't sure most the copyright of the locker image used so I made my own version in Google Slides. I plan to have the students utilise this activity only like I did the previous one. I will besides get to introduce remove.bg and unscreen.com to remove the background from images and animated gifs. This fashion they can add together a movie of themself if they desire.

All of these activities (except or guess who, and maybe even that 1 via Meet or Zoom) could exist used for virtual learning too.

Now, go build those relationships!

If you've been around me at all, you know my honey for Bitmoji. There are many posts on my blog about using them in the classroom. One style I like to employ my  Bitmoji is creating the main epitome in a digital escape room. You can come across an instance of information technology hither and here.

During this Covid-nineteen virtual learning time, I accept seen many teachers have this idea and remake their classroom. What a fun mode to requite convey information to your students. The process to make a virtual classroom is the aforementioned as the one I use to make an escape room image.

In that location are video tutorials bachelor. Here are links to a few that are proficient.

tutorial 1     tutorial 2

and this website has compiled many posted Bitmoji classroom images for inspiration.

I learn better with pace by stride instructions and not a video then I thought I would put together a quick tutorial for you lot.

Earlier we begin, I want to emphasize the importance to using images with advisable rights. Practice non use images from a normal Google search. You might get images that are not free to employ.  In Google Slides, or Drawing y'all tin insert image and exercise a search. These images are free to employ. You tin can also filter your images in a regular Google search.

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labeled for reuse: you are able to use these photos in any fashion that you'd like whether they exist for commercial purposes such equally your own website, or noncommercial purposes such every bit a school project.

reuse with modifications ways everything above and you tin can remove the background, change colors, etc.

noncommercial reuse: you are able to reuse the photo as long as you are doing so in a place that doesn't stand for a commercial entity

Noncommerical reuse should give yous the virtually options but if y'all plan to crop or change colors, choose with modification

Ok, now that the "Rules" have been covered, let's brand a scene.

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For Digital Escape Rooms, I build mine in Google Drawing, but you tin can also make them in Google Slides or PowerPoint. Google Drawing and Google Slides have the ability to embed them in a website or anything that accepts an embed lawmaking. PowerPoint does too if you save information technology to Ane Bulldoze. You want something cloud based to continue your links agile if you are using information technology to share information. Google Slides and PowerPoint will embed as an iframe but Google Cartoon does non, and then make sure yous know what blazon of embed lawmaking you demand. If yous are using Google Sites to house your escape room, Google Cartoon is what you want to use.

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Y'all tin can search for wall and floor and you volition ready options together. I will too only design my ain sometimes. Y'all can create a solid color flooring, for example grayness for a concrete floor and create a blueprint on the wall for wall newspaper. The kickoff example beneath is a wall and floor created by me, including the baseboard. The second example is using split up wall and flooring combinations constitute on the cyberspace. For the one we make today I'm going to apply a combo that I found online.

This link is a Wakelet of image resources. Sometimes a search just doesn't become you what yous want.

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This was my search and the first few images that came up from insert – image in Google Drawing. I picked the 2nd one and information technology wasn't quite alpine enough so I pasted in some other and cropped out the floor. This is 1 of the reasons I like finding the wall and floor separate. You tin make the wall and floor meet wherever you want.

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Now the fun begins. Using the aforementioned search methods or websites, start calculation in piece of furniture. Brand sure you set the search to transparent or type transparent afterwards the paradigm to try to get transparent backgrounds. Y'all tin can also brand your own (Tutorial). In the two image in stride 2, I made the sofa, rug, lamp, and shadows in image 1 and the desk in image 2. I used the shape tools in Google Drawing (Slides) to create them. You don't have to do this only it is an option if you tin't find what you need.

Using the Bitmoji extension for Google Chrome will make adding your Bitmoji easier, just drag information technology from the extension to your drawing. If yous don't use Chrome or don't desire the extension, you tin always e-mail from the app on your phone. Saving the prototype from the email volition retain the transparent groundwork.

If you want to add in photos of pets, your own piece of furniture, or other personal objects (the yellow mug with pens below), y'all can apply remove.bg to remove the background. This also works for clipart, only brand sure it has modification rights.

Making a whiteboard is easy. Draw a white rectangle and and so using the trapezoid tool, create a frame. I utilize a gradient for the color. You lot can come across a metal frame and a wooden frame below. The rug below is just an oval shape.

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Once you take your paradigm set up, y'all can set hotlinks on the image. If it is not a grouped imaged you tin click the epitome and the link symbolScreen Shot 2020-05-14 at 11.33.09 AM and type in or paste the URL. If it is a grouped image, you need to put a transparent square or circle using the shape tool and link to that.

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If y'all are using your image for a digital escape room and you are putting information technology in Google Sites, just insert the drawing inside Sites.

If y'all are using Sway or a website, you lot need publish information technology (Slides or PowerPoint only) to the web (come across Sway tutorial) and get the embed code.

You can also download the image equally a .jpg or .png and utilise it as just an image. You volition lose your hotlinks but information technology'due south still super beautiful for newsletters and Google Classroom headers (prepare size to 1000 ten 250 px earlier you begin)

Here is my completed image. The books on the shelf are are clickable links.

Wakelet of Resources      Tutorial to Create Your Own Images

Let me set the phase: You are creating a custom Bitmoji classroom scene (Tutorial hither) or digital escape room scene and yous find the PERFECT image, but SAD, it's not gratis to use. What do you do? Well, you don't illegally use it. PLEASE DON'T DO THAT! Instead, you brand your own in Google Drawing.

Here is an prototype I found that is clearly non free because information technology has a watermark. But I really like the manner this desk is situated and I desire one similar it.

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In a new Google Drawing file, paste in the not free to use clipart. Don't worry, nosotros will delete information technology subsequently.

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Bitmoji StepsEmploy Shape Tools to Create Image

Bitmoji Steps (2)Delete, Shrink Canvas, Save

Now that your image is complete, delete the clipart.

Select all by using control (or control) A or click and drag your cursor from elevation left pinnacle bottom correct. Move your image to the upper left corner.

Drag the handle in the bottom right corner and compress your canvass to fit your paradigm.

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Now you can become to file and download as a .png to go along the groundwork transparent or .jpg if you want the background to be white. If you lot program to use this image in your custom scene so you want a transparent background.

Here are a few images I take fatigued using Google Drawing. You lot can use the polyline tool or the bend tool, both under the line tool menu and brand custom shapes.

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Have fun and please share if you create your own custom images.

It's been awhile since I posted most Bitmojis and a few things have changed since the final postal service. Below is an update on how to create and utilize Bitmojis in your classroom.

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You used to be able to create a Bitmoji on your computer. You can't do that anymore. Yous must create information technology on the Bitmoji app or through the Snapchat app. Look inside your app store for either or both apps. This is the fun office! You take three different options for Bitmoji: Bitstrips, Bitmoji classic, or Bitmoji Deluxe. My Bitmoji is the deluxe version.

If you utilise Snapchat, you lot will take additional options like using the Bitmoji keyboard (on iOS) and sending "friendmojis". Yous can also use it in Snapchat which is pretty fun! **Hint** Call back your username and password for the side by side step.

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This is a friendmoji with my daughter.

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Install the Chrome extension for Bitmoji. You will have to use the same login information from Bitmoji or Snapchat, whatsoever you used to gear up up your account. One time installed and signed in, yous tin click on the Bitmoji extension in the height correct of the Chrome Browser. It will prove the electric current outfit yous have selected from the app. If y'all desire an outfit change, you lot will take to change it in the app. **Notation** This only works in the Chrome browser, just another reason to use chrome 🙂

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This part is soooo absurd. You lot can search the Bitmoji you want or search through the multiple tabs to find the perfect Bitmoji. Once selected, merely elevate information technology onto the Md, Slide, Drawing, Sheet, Continue (OK, whatsoever Google App) or email. Y'all can also drag it from Chrome to a Give-and-take Doc or PowerPoint. If y'all want to employ it elsewhere, right click and download the image.

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Now the Real fun begins. What practice you practice with it? Equally a instructor, I put Bitmojis on EVERYTHING.

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I put it on education sheets for projects
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Is use them for feedback on educatee assignments.

You can as well create CUSTOM feedback and store them in Google Keep. Here is a blog post about that procedure.

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Custom Feedback created in Google Cartoon
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Custom Google Classroom Header

Y'all can find the instructions for Custom Headers Here.

Yous can also put Bitmojis in Google Cartoon and create custom Bitmojis like the numbers in the post. Y'all can make a school shirt, a group Bitmoji, or make 1 say something new. (Custom Bitmoji tutorial) My favorite is using them for Stop Move Video. The tutorials are linked.

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Showtime, Bitmoji is a thirteen+ app, so it would only be available for high school students. Second, in that location are some questionable Bitmojis bea0ec75-dbd2-4d97-be32-1a0af004ddf0-67ba5758-862a-48ee-93b0-fb1bb39b5348-v1 and many school cake it. I am lucky enough that they volition open it for me while my students are using it. I do have a discussion nearly appropriate use, much like I exercise with YouTube. Just utilise school appropriate Bitmojis or we won't exist able to utilise information technology anymore. I've been using them in my classroom for four years at present and only had ONE questionable use, and the pupil used an alcoholic beverage Bitmoji. He changed it before it was published so no harm done.

Here is a workaround for schools blocking Bitmoji. Students can email Bitmojis to their school account straight from the Bitmoji app.

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If yous take littles, y'all tin create a folder of Bitmojis for them to use. Create a binder for each kiddo with a Bitmoji that looks like them. Here is a crowd sourced folder of some generic ones. Here is a short podcast talking about creating Bitmojis for students.

Now, WHY do you want to go through the trouble? Because students tin create some astonishing projects with Bitmoji.

Booksnaps or Mathsnaps

Catapult Activity

Comic Books that you lot can read in iBooks or Kindle. Or other comic blazon projects.

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Here are more ideas from the interverse using Bitmojis in the classroom.

https://www.weareteachers.com/bitmoji-classroom/

https://world wide web.thedaringlibrarian.com/2018/09/dorsum-to-school-with-bitmoji.html

https://mrswelchknows.blogspot.com/2017/12/tech-tip-thursday-bitmojis.html

I love to customize my Google Classroom banners. I hateful, the ones provided by Google are super cute, but if you can add a Bitmoji and then it's ameliorate I say. I also sometimes include some icons for the content area. I create my own to avoid copyright issues, simply noun project is another great resource to apply.

Header example

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Now nosotros want to go to page set-upward nether file, select custom, change inches to pixels and create an 800 ten 200 pixel canvas.2018-12-04_21-58-27

At present the fun tin can begin. If you right click (or command click) on the sail information technology will permit you to alter the background of the sheet. I similar to utilize the gradient characteristic so the eye is a little lighter.

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I've yous know ANYTHING virtually me, y'all know I like to employ the Bitmoji extension. Y'all tin can acquire about how to utilize the extension in this blog mail service. Now recall, you don't want to put words in the middle of yous banner because Google Classroom will put the class label in the eye. You besides want to leave a fiddling room on the outside edges so it fits your browser configuration.

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I added the words Happy Holidays too. Word Art is another fun tool to utilise if you want to play around with it.

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Now y'all are set to download your creation. I similar .png, but you can as well use .jpg

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Now that you accept your image in your downloads binder or any location you send your downloads. Now let's put this into Google Classroom. Click on the upload photo link in the bottom correct corner. Select or drag your image in. TAH DAH, you have a new custom header.

2018-12-04_22-28-47You can encounter my previous custom header and the new holiday header I just created. Notice the color does get a footling darker when you lot upload. Yous might besides play around with the location of your images. I move mine more towards the top than centered then it looks centered once inside of Classroom.

Now, permit'due south take this a step further. How about you let students create custom headers and each calendar week yous display a new one? Evan Mosier is having 1 of his classes exercise this and he has shared a site volition the headers created by his students. They are free for anyone to utilise.

If you lot brand i of your own, let me know @MandiTolenEDU on Twitter. If you use a banner from one of Evan's students, give them a shout-out on Twitter.

Stop Motion videos in Google Slides is such an like shooting fish in a barrel projection for teachers and students. I first learned about End Motion from @ericcurts on his blog Command Alt Achieve. @jmattmiller also has some fun stop motion information on his blog likewise.

I created a super brusque little stop motion that I turned into an animated gif using Tall Tweets so embedded into a Google slide presentation, even cropping it because it acts every bit an image.

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Terminate move videos are super easy to make in Google Slides. For the one above, I created groundwork then I drug in my Bitmoji and placed it at the top.

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Adjacent you duplicate the slide and using the arrow keys or sliding with your mouse, motion your image a picayune bit.

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Now the fun begins. Using the website Tall Tweets, load your Google Slide, this sometimes takes a chip depending on the size. Next, select the duration. Play with this a little until the movie looks like you want. Y'all can check by clicking the create gif push. When you are happy with your movie, y'all tin can salvage information technology or tweet information technology.

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Below are some finish motion videos I created for a Triangle Congruence lesson. So aye, you can employ end motility for academic purposes too. Image how much fun it would be for students to create their own!

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If you make stop motion videos, please share and tag me on Twitter @TTmomTT. I would Honey to run across them!

Key features of parabolas are important to understand the why behind quadratic graphs. It seems intuitive, and it is provided an image, just ofttimes the situation is represented as a graph with just words to guide students. My students can graph them just seem to struggle with where things are on the graph. We approached quadratics much differently this year, using simply Desmos and graphing calculators to graph. Nosotros started with an idea from a colleague at another high schoolhouse in my district. She uses fly swatters on mean solar day i to review key features of a parabola. This is not in the context of a state of affairs but a skilful identify to get-go. Student LOVED this activity.

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This is played relay style (film was taken on pajama day for homecoming, hence the jammies) and students run up and smack the parabola on the key feature selected.

Fly Swatter Key Features

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I too gave an exit ticket in Desmos activity builder to see where we still needed to remediate. I really liked this one because it was open-concluded. They moved the parabola effectually to meet each requirement.

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I've included the link to the Desmos activeness if you would like to apply it as well.

Lastly, nosotros worked with existent situations. I gave them an Angry Birds moving picture and had them label, with their elbow partner, initial elevation, maximum height, time to max height, and time to the ground. It went pretty well and they got everything but initial height, which led to nifty discussions.

Our final activity was giving them a state of affairs with an equation, they graphed it in Desmos and used their graph to make #mathsnaps. Bitmoji has updated so it wasn't equally easy to use since the first of the year (pitiful confront). Students must now create an business relationship on their app (iOS or Android) then link that to the Chrome extension. For students who didn't have access to the app, I provided a link to clipart and emojis they could use. Hither are a few of the math snaps I received this twelvemonth.

This is without feedback so some of the information isn't correct. Nosotros'll exist conferencing about it before long.

We learn from mistakes and some of mine will have some learning opportunities. YES!

I love Bitmojis. I love to show people how easy Bitmoji is to use in Google apps with the Bitmoji Chrome extension. I love to make these Bitmojis custom with your schoolhouse logo or Google or Ditch That Textbook on the shirt. Here are a few I've created and apply frequently.

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The second one is my Algebra 1 team. We shared a Google Drawing and each dropped in our Bitmojis. We used this for back-to-school documents.

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This one we made as a header for Google Classroom. This was our technology group that presented at our New Teacher Institute this yr. We each had our school shirt on. LOVE IT!

Earlier I get sidetracked past all the fun things we can do with custom Bitmojis, this is actually almost creating custom FEEDBACK Bitmojis for your students.

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Before you brainstorm, you will need to download the Bitmoji Chrome Extension. If you haven't created your Bitmoji, stop, do it now, Right NOW! You are missing out on soooo much fun!

Bitmoji created? Ok, resume the weblog post.

This offset video is a curt tutorial on how to create a custom Bitmoji in Google Cartoon. This tin exist used in ANYTHING, not but Google Keep. I employ these in Google Slides and on Twitter all the time.

This alone should make your twenty-four hour period. But if you want the awesomeness to continue, place these images in Google Proceed for quick feedback in Google Docs. The next video will show y'all how to exercise this.

Delight share your custom Bitmojis with me on Twitter (@TTmomTT). Here's a Twitter tip, download your custom Bitmoji equally a .jpg so the background turns white. Nearly of the time y'all want a transparent background but Twitter volition plow that transparent background black and make it more difficult to see.

Promise to see your custom Bitmoji around the Twittersphere.

Dave Burgess always asks, "If kids didn't have to come to your class would they?" I think some days the answer to my class is no. Teaching math is challenging so when I can plan a fun, engaging & standards-based activity it's a win for all.

While researching for our parabola unit I stumbled upon the projection posted by Julie Reulbach on her weblog I Speak Math. If you don't follow her on Twitter, you should! I adapted her action a piffling to make it go along with Clash of Clans and carried the theme throughout the activity.

I shot the orangish spikey stones (considering if you say balls in front of freshmen…) at students as they walked in the door starting about a week out. They were pretty excited to go to shoot the catapults themselves. Many of them also play Disharmonism of Clans or Clash Royale so they enjoyed that part too. The activity is frustrating for some of them who similar to have their hand held through each step. Nosotros have them piece of work together at tables and only arbitrate if the productive struggle is no longer productive.

I also added a #mathsnap to the action to reinforce the dissimilar parts of the parabola. They LOVED making their Bitmoji'southward. They haven't turned the #mathsnaps in all the same but I tin can't await to see them.

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I have fastened all of my documents for this project. Remember, this is modified from Julie'south project. You can get all of her originals here.

This is a printable bulls-center. I feel like I tin can use the castle paradigm in the center since it'southward a screen-shot I took from the game. If yous feel this is questionable, and so take the image off.

Desmos activeness This is updated from Julie'southward besides. I included the Clash of Clans images (possible copyright issues here – sorry) but it makes it more engaging for the students.

I too drop this certificate in Google Classroom so students can be self-directed when making the #mathsnap

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