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This is my activity sequence from Unit 0.  I've "borrowed" heavily from:
Constance Bowen (a2i Teacher)
Jo Boaler (See https://www.youcubed.org/)
a2i (for Mindset and Instructional Activities)

Interpreting functions conversion from Celsius to Fahrenheit and Kelvin to Celsius. Then create functions converting Kelvin to Celsius and it's inverse as well as explain what variables represent.
Note the wording might be easier for students to understand if "conversion" or "convert" were used. It might be useful to mention that the USA uses Fahrenheit, but most other countries use Celsius, and scientists use Kelvins.

This interactive graph from Desmos allows you (or a student) to change the parameters of a sine function to determine how those parameters impact the equation itself. One way to use this is to have a pair of students come up to the front of the room to work on determining which parameter does what, while other students watch the changing parameters and attempt to come up with their own conclusions.

Can entail discussion about the equivalence of radicals and exponents.

This website has a sequence of construction challenges that are done in an online platform using only two tools, constructing a circle and drawing (or extending) a line segment. This could be an excellent supplemental or homework resource. The challenges are addictive and quickly lead to fluency with constructions.

Nico Disseldorp has this great blog sciencevsmagic.net and on it he has posted a series of 40 challenging construction puzzles inspired by the ancient Greeks that you or your kids can play with online. David did all of these in the Fall of 2014 and couldn't get enough. More of a game than a lesson, but maybe a fun thing for you to use to inspire and invigorate you as you teach this year!

Use this form to create copies of the resources you need to construct your own Connecting Representations tasks.

Use this form to create copies of the resources for constructing your own Contemplate then Calculate tasks.

This interactive geogebra applet allows you to create a line of best fit visually by attempting to minimize the total areas of the squares displayed.

Dan Meyer 3 Act Math activity. In the video there is a Ferris wheel with smaller ferris wheels at the circumference. Students need to predict path for one of the carriages on the smaller Ferris wheels. It might be useful to incorporate strategies for observing, listening to and recording student work during this activity.

A list of Three Act math tasks, curated by Dan Meyer. These are rich mathematics tasks that start with a picture or video that lends itself well to students asking their own mathematical questions. They are aligned to a variety of different Common Core Standards.

This Illustrative Mathematics resource draws a very nice set of connections between functions, regression, distributions, probability, and statistics. It can also be used as a formative assessment resource to see how well students understand the ideas from Unit 5 in Algebra II.