How to Use Our Materials
This is the guide for online instruction. We also have guides for using our materials in a flipped classroom and traditional classroom. Note: Flipped classrooms combine online and in-person instruction. This guide is for completely online classroom formats:
Online Instruction
This guide walks you through using our materials while teaching online. We are using one of our lessons (AP Stats Lesson 3.2) as a model:
Lesson 3.2 Video
How to use the video:
If you’re doing live instruction (synchronous)
Students will not watch the Video, since the teacher will cover this content live with students. However, students who are absent during the live session can watch the video to catch up with their peers.
If you’re doing non-live instruction (asynchronous)
First, students will independently watch the pre-lesson Video, which covers the “Guided Notes” portion of the Handout.
While watching, students can take notes in their handout and fill out the Video Reflection Questions google form (teachers check this form to make sure students watched the video).
How to use the student items:
If you’re doing live instruction (synchronous)
During a live video conference with students, teachers use the Desmos Activity to cover the lesson content and collect student responses. Desmos provides a “fancy math” slide deck that allows you to advance through interactive slides with students online (while simultaneously collecting student responses to questions). At the moment, Desmos activities are only provided for AP Stats lessons.
If you’re not comfortable using Desmos, the Slide Deck (next section) provides a traditional powerpoint you can use with students during a video call.
While going through the lesson, students can take notes using the Handout. We recommend converting the handout to a google doc for students who don’t have access to printers at home.
If you’re doing non-live instruction (asynchronous)
Students fill in the “Guided Notes” portion of the Handout while watching the pre-lesson Video. We recommend converting the handout to a google doc for students who don’t have access to printers at home.
After watching the video, students complete a google form of Video Reflection Questions. Reading the form responses allows teachers to see student questions, gauge student understanding, and check if students actually watched the video.
Teachers can create a separate assignment in which students complete the “Discussion” and “Practice” portion of the handout. Google Classroom has a very good way of allowing students to respond to one another’s submissions, which is perfect for the “Discussion” part of the handout.
How to use the teacher items:
The Handout Key provides model solutions.
Teachers can use the Slide Deck, which mirrors the material from the Video, to review difficult portions of the lesson with students during video conferences. Some slides provide visuals and prompts for the “Discussion” and “Practice” part of the Handout. Teachers can use these slides to facilitate discussion and practice during video conferences.
AP Stats Teachers: Add extra practice problems to the handout from your school’s textbook. The CED/Textbook Alignment page matches our lessons to relevant sections of the most widely-used AP® Stats textbooks.
Use the lesson Data for further analysis or for making further activities. Or share the data with students to see their original analyses!
Important notes
Citing Our Work: Because we are providing our lesson materials free of charge, we expect the materials to be properly cited. Please print the phrase “adapted from the Skew The Script curriculum (skewthescript.org)” on any materials you use, modify, distribute, and/or share. See our license for more information.
For AP Stats Teachers: Materials from Skew The Script are not meant to be comprehensive. Skills should be honed by repeated practice from other sources. In particular, we recommend using your school’s textbook to add extra practice problems to our handouts and to add review/assessments to our units. See our guide for matching our lessons to sections of the most widely-used AP® Statistics textbooks and the AP® Statistics CED.