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1. K12 [NOVA Teachers] Week of September 3, 2002
2. PROJ> [Hilites => Projects] Ages 14-18 The Global Water Sampling Project
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3. K12> August bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
4. K12> designing teacher web pages
5. K12> Hit: Civil War & 5th grade, Pt.1
6. K12> Hit:Civil War & 5th grade, Pt. II
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:48:34 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12 [NOVA Teachers] Week of September 3, 2002
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Sent: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:40:53 -0400
Subject: [NOVA Teachers] Week of September 3, 2002
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 06:57:47 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PROJ> [Hilites => Projects] Ages 14-18 The Global Water Sampling
Project - revised
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Subject: [Hilites => Projects] Ages 14-18 The Global Water Sampling Project
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Project Information
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Project Author: Liesl Hotaling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Project Title: The Global Water Sampling Project
Project Begin & End Dates: 9/09/02 to 11/15/02
Project Summary:
Students will be teaming up around the globe to test fresh water.
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Project Details
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Project Level: Basic
Curriculum Area: Science
Technologies Used: Email, Web Based Discussion Forum
Project Sponsor: CIESE
Full Project Description:
Students will be teaming up around the globe to test fresh water. Join us in a
collaborative project where students will perform the following tests; temperature,
pH, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen demand, carbon dioxide, phosphates, nitrates,
turbidity, and coliform bacteria. Students will submit their results to the project
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Objectives:
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Registration Acceptance Dates: 8/15/02 to 11/09/02
Number of Classrooms: no limit
Age Range: 14 to 18 years
Target Audience: Anyone
Project URL: http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/waterproj/index.shtml
Registration Instructions:
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:56:45 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> August bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
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Subject: August bigchalk Library Product Bulletin
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:57:58 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> designing teacher web pages
Sent: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:25:08 -0700
Subject: designing teacher web pages
From: "J Cravens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: k12.ed.tech
BRICK BY BRICK: DESIGNING TEACHER WEB PAGES
Web pages are a great way to reach outside your classroom to connect with
people and resources around the globe. There are many good reasons to
build school or class web pages, including, introducing visitors to
activities, linking to quality online resources, publishing student work,
and sharing local curriculum and information. Thousands of teachers
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explores some of these websites and examines how these educators are using
their pages to support teaching and learning. The website also links to
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http://eduscapes.com/sessions/brick/index.htm
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:58:36 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Hit: Civil War & 5th grade, Pt.1
From: "Nancy Dickinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:17:07 -0500
Subject: Hit: Civil War & 5th grade, Pt.1
Thanks to so many people for their suggestions regarding working with 5th
graders on the Civil War. Here is my original target followed by my hit.
The fifth grade will be studying the Civil War almost immediately. I have
checked the archives but don't find anything that will help me think of a
great project for them to do. I would really like to wow these teachers
right off the bat!
Do the students read any fiction related to the Civil War? Gary paulsen's
SOLDIER"S HEART is a natural.
Our kids read Soldier's Heart in 6th grade; they look at selected photos the
Brady collection on the American Memory Site (memory..oc.gov) Good way to
introduce kids to primary sources and photo anaylsis.
Also, our county historical society has a web site about Company K at
Gettysburg. Charley Goddard, the main character in Soldier's Heart was in
Comapny K. That web site has diaries and photos. Also, we have a local
site about Winona history (Charley Goddard's home
town) and it has some Goddard inforamtion at a very readable level.
http://www.winona.msus.edu/historicalsociety/sesqui/
http://www2.smumn.edu/deptpages/~history/civil_war/index.htm
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I just attended a class which taught us to write WebQuests, and there are
several good ones on the subject of the Civil War. There are too many to
list, but a Google search of "Civil War Webquest" will turn up dozens.
These are fun, challenging to the students, show a great use of technology,
and are not a lot of work for the teacher. They MAY, however, require more
Internet expertise than the students have at this time.
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I would start or end your unit with a very powerful easy book which many
people thought would win the Caldecott Medal the year it was published: Pink
and Say by Patricia Polacco.
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I think you should do something with primary documents. There are quite a
few available for Civil War. I have a variety that I work with. I intro it
with a "Mystery Document" type activity in teams. Each team examines a
document and answers questions about it. then reports back to the group. I
use 4-5 different types of documents, to show them the variety and to show
that different information can be learned from different types of documents.
I may be able to get you some that I use, but I'm sure you can easily locate
a variety. Let me know if you need more info on my lesson.
After the intro, I show them the Library of Congress lesson and they
each have to locate a picture of interest to them, print it, and write about
it. You could have them each locate a civil war picture or document and do
this, or have groups focus on finding info about certain battles. . . lots
of opportunities.
It could work into a 3 or 4 library class unit, depending on the time
each class is in the library and depending on the number of computers you
have.
This also works with other topics and grade levels. I start it all off
with a letter I found online that is written to Paul Revere by his wife
Rachel, telling him it wasn't safe to return to town! They loved the fact
that she sent him money with the letter.... until I tell them that he never
got the letter and probably didn't get the money either.
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/fieldtrp/socstu/civil.htm
http://www.runet.edu/~sbisset/civilwar.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/tl1861.html
http://memory.loc.gov/
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A few years ago I did a project with fifth graders about slavery, may be
this could be connected with the Civil War unit. Look at this site
(http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html) which has photos and
words of true former slaves. My fifth graders each chose one former slave
to "get to know", wrote a mini-journal answering certain questions (some
posed by me), etc. The impact of meeting these real people, reading their
language, their reminiscences of what really happened when they were
children, etc. was
very powerful.
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I've done picture books on the Civil War with 7th
graders. That was fun. The teacher and I selected
several books on that theme, had the kids break into
groups to read them. The kids then discuess the book
within that group and then broke up into groups with
one reader for each book and discussed.
I don't have all the particulars but discussions
included things you already knew about the CW and how
it fit into the story; things you didn't know about
the CW, themes that still apply today ;
illustrations, etc.
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I created a Pathfinder specifically for the library I was working in that
dealt with slavery during the Civil War period - while the resources are
fairly specific, you may have some of the same books and/or access to the
websites mentioned. (included attachment)
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Part II to follow!
Nancy Dickinson, Librarian
Hillsboro Elem. School
Hillsboro, TN 37342
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:58:55 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> Hit:Civil War & 5th grade, Pt. II
From: "Nancy Dickinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:24:28 -0500
Subject: Hit:Civil War & 5th grade, Pt. II
Here is part II of the hit on ideas for a project for 5th graders on the
Civil War. Thanks for the ideas!
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Last year I did the following webquest with our fifth graders. We had a
great time!
http://www.stonewall.fayette.k12.ky.us/wq/cwwebquest/civilwar.htm
I had to modify it a little bit because some of the links were blocked by
our filter (mostly the ones on weapons). I then just printed out the pages
and had them available for the students. Also, some of the links were not
straight forward enough, so I found alternatives. It was great fun though
and worth the time!
Another activity we did was do a "Who's Who in the Civil War book". The
student each had an historical figure (I can e-mail you a list of people if
you'd like), the wrote an acrostic name poem that included characteristics
and accomplishments of that person, wrote up findings of an interview or
they pretended they were introducing that person to an audience. It was fun
also.
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If you would like to use the Underground Railroad as a topic to fit in with
the civil war unit, I could send you a unit I did with 5th grade. It
involved reading some picture books, visiting websites and showing a video
at the end
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I wouldn't come up with a project myself. I'd help with the project the
teacher assigns. What my 4th & 5th grade students need to know most is how
to take notes,
organize the notes into their own paragraphs and write a bibliography. Make
sure they use several different types of sources -- books, encyclopedias,
magazines, Internet, videos if available. Help them recognize important
facts and practice using indexes, alphabetical order, effective searching,
etc.
If the teachers do not assign a project, I would look at all my various
sources and write questions that are unique to that source. I would then
divide students into groups and give them different questions. They answer
the question and write a bibliography for the source. Writing the
questions is very time-consuming, especially if you write a lot of different
questions. However, once it's done it can be used year after year.
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One project that I always liked to do with my MIddle Schoolers is an
Alphabet book. This can be adapted for any grade level and any subject. I
would give the kids a rubric and show them an example (A is for America is
one I can think of right now). The kids really got into it, especially when
trying to be different than everyone else. I have done this with 6th/7th as
well as HS kids. Please let me know if you want a sample rubric or anything
like that.
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There are a lot of topics that can be used for reports: each battle (some
cities had battles twice), weapons, ships, railroads, African American
soldiers, uniforms, food, etc.
Y'all are great! Thanks for all the help and offers of more help!
Nancy Dickinson, Librarian
Hillsboro Elem. School
Hillsboro, TN 37342
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:59:23 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MISC> [netsites] The Computer Lady
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Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 07:59:44 -0500
From: Gleason Sackmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K12> [netsites] Technology School of the Future
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Subject: [netsites] Technology School of the Future
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