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Project Title: Lighthouses: Beacons of the Night Project Begin & End Dates: 10/04/98 to 11/19/98 Project Summary: Students will examine the general history of lighthouses and take a close look a local lighthouses. They will share information via email and website. Project Level: Basic Curriculum Area: History and Social Studies, Language Technologies Used: Email, Web Based Discussion Forum Project Sponsor: no Full Project Description: TIMELINE: October 4-8, 1998: We will be sending out general information about lighthouses to everyone who signed up, as well as information on our city, state and class. We would like each participating school to send us information about their city and state and class. We will share this information via the Internet with all schools. This should be completed by October 8. October 11-15: Students will send via email a description of their lighthouse (s) to the Winman students. This should include location, history, lore, role it played in the past, present status, picture, etc. This information will be posted on the project web site. October 18-22: Students will write a lighthouse poem (this can be about their lighthouse or lighthouses in general) and email it to Winman students. These poems will be posted on the project web site. October 25-29: Students will write a short story about a lighthouse. This can be historical fiction based on their lighthouse or a ghost story, adventure, etc. These stories will be posted on the project web site. November 15-19: All participating schools will receive a Lighthouse Book containing the compiled submissions. COMPLETE PROJECT: I. Each student will research one of the following topics about lighthouses (they may use the Internet, CD encyclopedias, library, etc.), and write a research paper based on their findings. 1. History: beginning with burning fires along the shores 2. Construction: how they are built and the various styles 3. Illumination & Optical Systems; how they work, how they have changed 4. Modern Developments: Changes that have occurred over the years The final papers will be entered on the computer and sent, along with a description of Rhode Island and Warwick, Winman, and the class, to the participating schools during the week of October 4-8, welcoming them to the project. These will also be posted on a web page by the students. II. Each participating school will respond by sending information about the area where they live, their school and class to Winman. (by email) during the week of October 11-15. They should also include a description of their lighthouse, including location, history, lore, role it played in the past, present status, pictures, etc. (Each Winman student will be choosing one of the 21 Rhode Island lighthouses to study in depth.) This information will be posted on the project web site. III. Students at all schools will each write a lighthouse poem. If needed, the teacher may want to begin with a lesson on writing poetry. This poem can be about lighthouses in general or about a particular lighthouse. Schools will send their poems to Winman during the week of October 18-22, and will be posted on the project web site. IV. Students at all schools will each write a short story about a lighthouse. If needed, teachers may want to begin with a lesson on short story writing, including plot, character development, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action and conclusion. The story can be historical fiction, a mystery, ghost story, adventure story or whatever genre the students choose. Be sure to have them include specific facts they have learned about lighthouses to give their stories a sense of reality. These should be sent to Winman during the week of October 25-29. These will be posted on the project web site. V. November 19: All participating schools will receive a Lighthouse Book containing the compiled submissions. We are looking forward to working with you and sharing information about lighthouses with other students who have these unique structures standing as sentinels along their shores! Objectives: The students will learn about the history of lighthouses and will understand their importance to man and to histoy. They will express themselves through various forms of writing and will share their knowledge of lighthouses with students in other areas, giving them an appreciation and understanding of other people and places. Writing will be shared on a project web site, and each participating school will receive a book containing the work of all schools. The Winman students are planning a lighthouse clean-up and field trips! Hopefully, other schools can do the same, and we can share our experiences through email or the web site. Project Registration Information Project Email Address: rif8015@ride.ri.net Registration Acceptance Dates: 9/01/98 to 10/01/98 Number of Classrooms: 5 Age Range: 11 to 13 years Target Audience: Anyone Registration Instructions: HOW TO REGISTER: If you and your class would like to join these enthusiastic students as they embark on their study of lighthouses, those unique structures which have remained "sources of inspiration to sailors, artists and other dreamers," contact me by email at rif80158@ride.ri.net or MMorin4452@aol.com Please include: Your full name: Your email address: Your School: District: School Address: School voice phone: Home voice phone: Grade (s) taught: Subject (s): We are looking for serious participants who will make a commitment to our project and follow it to completion. Project Contact Information Mary Lynn Morin - mailto:rif80158@ride.ri.net mailto:MMorin@aol.com Enrichment Opportunities Teacher - Winman Junior High School Warwick, Rhode Island US
Project Title: Following Fall (Grades 4-9)
Project Registration Information Project Email Address: lindquis@stolaf.edu Registration Acceptance Dates: 8/15/98 to 10/15/98 Number of Classrooms: 50 Age Range: 9 to 14 years Target Audience: National (USA) http://www.stolaf.edu/other/snap/fallcolors.html Registration Instructions: See the Following Fall website for more information and register online. Project Contact Information Bill Lindquist - mailto:lindquis@stolaf Environmental Education Technology Educator - School Nature Area Project- St. Olaf College Northfield, Minnesota US
Project Title: Turn your classroom into a
Rainforest!
Project: World Weather Watch
Project Information Project Begin & End Dates: 10/01/98 to 1/01/99 Project Summary: The Bug Hunt is a simple internet information exchange activity. Elementary classrooms will gather bugs local to their surroundings, tally, graph, and exchange this information with other classrooms. Project Details Curriculum Area: Mathematics, Science Technologies Used: Email Full Project Description: Bug Find Internet Project Description of project: The Bug Find requires students to randomly find bugs from their backyard and classify and compare them to the insects found by students around the world.
Educational Goals: Skill goals: The skills that will be instilled in the students are gathering and classifying information and the communication among students -either among classmates or students around the world. Internet goals: Students will communicate with other students via email and liztserve. Students will use the computer to make a graph or chart to depict the information gathered. What I expect students to accomplish: Students by the end of this project will have compared the different bugs found from different areas around the world. They will have been exposed to information about these insects and will have accurately compared them through use of graphs or charts. Structure Colleagues involved: There will be two teachers working on this project from our school. These teachers will use students from the various classrooms from grades 2-4. The teachers intent is to incorporate both the math and science curriculum into this project. Project coordinator: Lori Hoy at Mifflinburg Elementary School in Mifflinburg, PA lorihoy@csrlink.net Number of students and project participants: The number of students that can participate in this project is unlimited. As a school the information should be compiled and made into a school graph depicting the bug sampling gathered by your students. Ideally we would like to have samplings from a maximum of ten schools located from around the world. Project time span and deadlines: The gathering of data (bugs) should be done starting in September through November. The time period that is considered our fall months. The posting of information will begin the end of November. This information can include pictures of the project for example students collecting bugs, interesting facts about the types of bugs collected and finally the data including the cumulative totals of the bugs collected. For example, 300 total bugs-45 beetles, 38 grasshoppers, 13 crickets etc. Non-Internet activities: Students will be expected to perform the following non-Internet activities: collection of bugs either as a class or individually (ideally no more than 5-10 bugs per student, tally of the insect sample gathered by the members of their school, construction of school wide graph representing bug collection, typing of interesting facts about the insects gathered by their school. Internet activities: Students can use Internet sites to help them classify the insects they have collected and also to find out interesting facts. Students will use a listserve to post their information and to receive information from other students. Internet sites: Here are a few sites students may find helpful: Closure Measures of success: The accuracy of the graphs and the level of participation will determine the success of this project. Project Registration Information Project Contact Information
Project Title: Branching Out-exploring the world ecoysytems through TREES Project Begin & End Dates: 9/01/98 to 5/01/99 Project Summary: We will examine trees and the ecosystem in which they are to be found. We would like to exchange leaves ( pressed as bookmarks) with keypals in other environments. Project Details Curriculum Area: Science, Technology Technologies Used: Email Full Project Description: Objectives:
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Project Title: The First Day of Autumn Project Begin & End Dates: 9/23/98 to 10/01/98 Project Summary: We will compare high and low temperatures on the first day of autumn within each of the different biomes from various regions around the world. Project Details Curriculum Area: Mathematics, Science, Technology Technologies Used: Email Project Sponsor: Shelley Witkin Full Project Description: Students in the fourth grade will be investigating Earth's major biomes,(Tundra, Coniferous Forests, Deciduos Forests, Tropical Rain Forests, Grasslands, Deserts, and Water Biomes, through the use of textbooks, labs, and on-line resources. We are particularly interested in seeing how the high and low temperatures differ within each biome on the first day of autumn depending upon the region of the world you reside in. Students will gather data and make graphs comparing the high and low temperatures within each biome from the various regions of the world. The data will then be disseminated via Email. The autumn equinox occurs on Sept. 23, 1998 in the northern hemispere at 1:34 eastern standard time. We would like each class to submit the following information: The Biome in which they live, the high and low temperature (in either degrees Celcius or Fahrenheit),grade level, city, state, and country.We ask that the high and low temperature be recorded on Sept. 23, 1998 and that the infor Objectives:
students will identify and compare temperatures within the major biomes Project Registration Information Project Contact Information |
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