The following projects were created as homework during a
Winter 1999 Leadership Institute Integrating Internet, Curriculum,
and Instruction pilot online course.
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Adopting an Endangered Species in Our Area
This project involves groups of students in an investigation
of endangered species at the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.
Students are asked to take a field trip (either virutal or actual)
to discover what species are in jeopardy and what resources are
in place to save the population. Students use technology to communicate
with experts and research the most current statistics. The ultimate
goal of the mission is to adopt an endangered species and disseminate
relevant information about the species to the neighboring community.
The project can be used as a model to investigate any community's
endangered species and provide the community with information.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
All about Water
This project encourages students to research the drinking water
delivery system in the local area, recognize the importance of
political action regarding water conservation issues, communicate
with a variety of subject matter experts, and collaborate with
ninth grade science students in aggregating collected data and
reporting findings. Third grade students take water samples and
analyze them using test kits. They develop a system to catalog
their samples and submit the results to project collaborators,
ninth grade high school science students. This science class is
to determine if there are any trends in the data. They graph the
results of their testing and summarize their investigations in
a report to their third grade collaborators. The high school classes
locate the source of contaminants and the students identify sources
of information that will help them investigate the problem and
devise methods to remove the pollutants from the water. The filtration
methods are tested, and appropriate officials are contacted if
the situation warrants.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages, 3rd Grade Rubric and 9th Grade Rubric |
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Knowing the Western Hemisphere - A Student-Guided
Study of Countries in the Western Hemisphere
A
class of 6th grade bilingual students will use the Internet and
e-mail, as well as more traditional methods, to research a selected
group of countries from Central and South America and the Caribbean.
Students will contact real people to learn about the geography,
history, culture, current events and other interesting facts about
particular countries. They will prepare reports and share them
orally and on a classroom Web site. Information will be appropriate
for middle school students including other LEP/Spanish speaking
students who are studying the Western Hemisphere.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
Video Game Hall of Fame
Students are asked to investigate what makes videogames
popular by a videogame conglomerate with poor sales. Students will produce
a report for the company with data, conclusions, and suggestions for
designing a new videogame. The students will create surveys and graphs to
base their conclusions on.
They will use the Internet to communicate with students in other schools
in the U.S. and to contact major manufacturers and distributors of videogames.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric 1, Rubric 2 |
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A View with No Slant
Student
will compare and contrast how historical events are taught in
different cultures. In the process students will communicate with
experts and other students of the target culture using high technology
such as e-mail and Internet. The final result of what they found
will be displayed in the method of their choice such as play performance
and Web page. The display will be presented at the annual Foreign
Language Festival in the spring.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
All about Water
This project encourages students to research the drinking water
delivery system in the local area, recognize the importance of
political action regarding water conservation issues, communicate
with a variety of subject matter experts, and collaborate with
ninth grade science students in aggregating collected data and
reporting findings. Third grade students take water samples and
analyze them using test kits. They develop a system to catalog
their samples and submit the results to project collaborators,
ninth grade high school science students. This science class is
to determine if there are any trends in the data. They graph the
results of their testing and summarize their investigations in
a report to their third grade collaborators. The high school classes
locate the source of contaminants and the students identify sources
of information that will help them investigate the problem and
devise methods to remove the pollutants from the water. The filtration
methods are tested, and appropriate officials are contacted if
the situation warrants.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages, 3rd Grade Rubric and 9th Grade Rubric |
Budget Bonanza
Students will participate in a unit on financial planning that
will feature the use of electronic resources, as well as including
traditional resources. They will investigate the necessity of
sound financial planning. Students will be randomly assigned 'families'
and accompanying 'fates' which they will then work with to plan
their financial futures. This project will teach the skills, vocabulary,
and concepts of personal economics in a 'hands-on' authentic manner
that is not as intimidating to students as the traditional 'textbook'
approach. Supplemental information and prizes will be provided
by professional community experts. Guest speakers from the field
of financial planning will also act as judges of the final presentations.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student
Pages and Rubric Project Table of Contents |
Community Heritage Project
Learning
to be a contributing citizen in ones' community often means learning
to make connections. In this project students investigate the
idea of connectiveness to their local community. They look at
the connections they will make to become contributing members
as well as looking at what connections cause people to remain
in a community or move "back home." The project takes
the idea of connections one step further in engaging students
to create a video and/or promotional brochure about their community
to help connect it to others in the world. The ultimate goal is
for students' contributions to their community help their improve
their community's economy.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
Exploring Our Past: The Revolutionary War
High school students are challenged to explore and research Revolutionary
War soldiers buried within our county. During the project, student
groups will research and write fact-based reports and multimedia
presentations about the soldiers, the era in which they lived,
and the effects of war in general. Their challenge is to create
Web sites with images and fictionalized stories, letters, journals
and accounts of these soldiers based on collaboration with experts,
interviews with local historians, research through on-line museums
and schools, and interviews with local veterans. These fictionalized
stories of war and its effects will be posted on the Internet
along with photographs and art relating to their report.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
Lead It Be
Urban
students are seldom interested in anything that does not effect
them directly. They can avoid the water in lakes and streams,
however, they cannot avoid water which they consume. Water quality
in Milwaukee is always an issue. Remember cryptosporidium? This
unit will be a collaboration between the Chemistry Department
and the Technology Department, as well as, incorporate collaboration
between various schools to pool data gathered. Students will be
asked to help design and run tests dealing with the concentration
of lead that might be found in drinking water.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario 1, Scenario 2 | Student Pages and Rubric |
Roller Coaster Design
This
is an interdisciplinary project that involves industrial technology
classes and physics classes in designing, building and critiquing
roller coasters and other amusement park rides. The first semester
physics class will research the safety standards and the components
of a ride that make it "fun" via Web sites and post
these results on this Web site. The CAD (computer-assisted drafting)
classes will research ride designs on the internet and then design
their own based on the safety and "fun" criteria set
up by the first physics class. The material processing classes
will build the design after researching structural properties
of materials on the Internet. The second semester physics class
will critique these models by comparing them to the standards
determined by the first physics class.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Page 1, Student Page 2, Student Page 3, Student Page 4 and Rubric |
We Never Promised You a Greenhouse . . .
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The Greenhouse Project consists of the design and construction
of a working greenhouse for the Plymouth Regional High School
Science Department. The students will be taking charge of all
facets of the project, including needs assessment, greenhouse
basics, building design, funding proposal, project proposal presentation,
and construction. It will be a multi-disciplinary project joining
freshman physical science students and junior and senior vocational
building trades students.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
What Happened to the Nuclear Promise?
This is a unit to last three weeks and intended to
be implemented later in the school year. Students will use the
Internet and e-mail to communicate with many other scientist,
experts, educators, and instititutions around the world. Students
will share information with each other to help set and guide their
projects.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
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Educational MUVES
The
Educational MUVE Project introduces educators to a critical yet
often overlooked area of the Internet: Educational Multi-User
Virtual Environments (MUVEs). Although a large number of "EdMUVEs"
exist in a wide range of subject matters, many have never heard
of, let alone visited these important online communities. It is
the hope of this project to facilitate, educate and motivate K-12
educators to utilize this vital tool for bringing education into
the next millennium.
Summary Pre-LInC Description (NA) |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
G. R. I. D. (Guided Relevant Internet Discovery)
K-5 teachers will be active participants in creating lesson plans
that interweave technology objectives with the teaching of core
curricular areas. The participants will design, select, and construct
technology-enriched lesson plans. The results will be an interactive
site that contains a grid featuring teacher-selected web sites
organized by grade level and subject. Engaged users will have
the opportunity to publish critiques, suggest classroom applications
and recommend additional web sites for the grid. Furthermore,
learners will be given the opportunity to submit lesson plans
to the Michigan Department of Education for publication on the
"Best Practices in Technology:" CD.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
Multiple Intelligences and Technology
This is a workshop that provides professional development in instructional
technology and Multiple Intelligences. Teachers will meet both
physically and virtually. The participants will be challenged
to work in teams to develop a lesson for their discipline that
reflects the Michigan
Curriculum Framework, contains more than two multiple intelligences
and involves than two uses of technology including the Internet.
Teachers will make a home page as the final project that will
be posted to a larger database and shared with educators around
the world. The projects will also be submitted to the "Best Practice
in Teaching" contest sponsored by the Michigan Association
of Intermediate School Administrators and the REMC Association
of Michigan.
Summary Pre-LInC Description |
Scenario | Student Pages and Rubric |
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St. Ignace, MI - Budget
Bonanza Carrollton, IL - Exploring Our Past: The Revolutionary War Green Bay, WI - A View with No Slant |
Mahtomedi, MN - Roller
Coaster Design Milwaukee, WI - Lead It Be Plymouth, NH - We Never Promised You a Greenhouse . . . . |
Paterson, NJ - Knowing
the Western Hemisphere - A Student-Guided Study of Countries
in the Western Hemisphere El Cerrito, CA - Educational MUVES Chicago, IL - Adopting an Endangered Species in Our Area |
Detroit, MI - Multiple
Intelligences and Technology Fort Benton, MT - Community Heritage Project Farmington, MI - G.R.I.D. (Guided Relevant Internet Discovery) |