The Lighthouse Technology Grants are funded through the federal Technology Literacy Challenge Fund and are intended to identify, enhance, and disseminate existing classroom projects that incorporate new technologies with the learning standards in the state curriculum frameworks to motivate students to learn. The teachers who implemented these projects will serve as mentors and their projects as models, for other classrooms in the school, other schools within the districts, or other districts.
AbingtonMolly Boyle
781-982-2164. |
Abington High School
Grade Level: High School Saying and Writing: Using Electronic Threaded Discussions High School students collect data and contribute to an electronic, threaded discussion using Knowledge Forum software. A thematic unit, such as a place in American Cultural history, uses this software to collect data, question, define and collaborate. Students build knowledge using the database, read in the selected unit, and then return to analyze their own progress in understanding information and concepts. Knowledge Forum Software (researched at the University of Toronto) is an exemplary product that is applicable to any content area and can be easily applied to a variety of technology and classroom environments. |
AcushnetMarianne Gillmore
508-998-0260 |
Albert F. Ford Middle School
Grade Level: Middle To be or Not to be Wired Eighth Grade students immerse themselves in the literary work and culture of William Shakespeare and his times through this student-centered, multimedia project to acquire academic knowledge, to achieve common academic standards and attain independence in learning. The Shakespearean Festival, which culminates this project, has three main components: Academics, an Elizabethan Banquet, and a Dramatic Presentation through which students develop thinking and language together through interactive learning. This project requires students to conduct on-line and CD-ROM research in their computer class, students design their own costume and create their own character: a royal, an elegant courtier, a middle class person, an outlaw, a peasant, or a wench to participate in the Elizabethan Banquet. |
AmherstEileen Daneri
413-549-6300 |
Wildwood Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Accessing the Curriculum Now (AC Now) In recognition of different learning styles and multiple modality learning, assistive technology assists learners in participating, accessing curriculum and demonstrating acquired knowledge and skills. Through the use of adaptive devices and assistive technology software, coupled with extensive training and effective educational practices, teachers provide equal access to the curriculum for students with diverse learning needs. |
Amherst-PelhamPaul Plummer
413-549-9845 |
Amherst Regional Middle School
Grade Level: Middle Using Robotic Systems for Scientific Problem Solving Eighth grade Science and Technology students program an autonomous robot to negotiate a maze that was designed and constructed by the students at the start of the project. By measuring various dimensions in the maze, and determining the appropriate distance and turning angles they develop a robot's program. Forward, reverse, turning and stopping are options in the programming. Students use the system model to explain the process of solving the problem (goal, input, process, output, and feedback). In addition, students create a scale drawing of the maze and show how the program relates to the drawing. |
ArlingtonBarbara Siegel
781-316-3501 |
Arlington Public Schools
Grade Level: Elementary FlightNet Fifth grade students explore the principles of aerodynamics: lift versus weight and thrust versus drag by using multimedia and Internet technology as well as by performing classroom and on-line experiments. Students constructively investigate the scientific concepts that make flight possible and analyze variations in aircraft design that influence flight (i.e., weight, center of balance, wing size, and wing span). Students access to flight information is greatly increased by the vast reservoir of facts on the Internet and On-line flight demonstrations give depth and understanding to aerodynamics. multimedia presentation applications are used to exhibit knowledge of aerodynamics and design principles. |
BellinghamGail Callahan
508-966-0451 |
Stall Brook School
Grade Level: Elementary Cybercafe hosts "Our America" The project CYBERCAFE featuring "Our America" presents how technology serves as a supportive tool in enhancing our fourth grade curriculum as it relates to the social studies frameworks. "Our America" is a study of related chronological historical events that are reflected in the strands and learning standards. Through the use of technology, students will access information, design a database, synthesize concepts and creatively express ideas to others. This integrated approach actively involves educational components such as social studies, language arts, geography, mathematical concepts and creativity. |
Berlin-BoylstonBette Robblee
508-869-2729 |
Berlin Memorial School
Grade Level: Elementary Architecture Links Through History Elementary students complete a problem solving performance task connecting math and local history to architecture. Learners use math, history, and technology in authentic ways through activities with real-world applications. Through the use of electronic drawing tools students replicate the facade of two buildings-one urban and one rural. They use digital cameras to develop an understanding of geometric concepts and patterns found in real structures. This project enables students to use the architectural style of local buildings coupled with technology to help determine the growth of their hometown. |
Blackstone-MillvilleAnne Cignoli
508-876-0177 |
Millville Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Keyboard Kids: Technology in the Grade 2 Classroom .Students with learning disabilities utilize Alpha Smart portable word processors to write their own stories, keep journals and to express themselves creatively. Gifted students can be challenged, while also meeting the needs of those special needs children. Most importantly,.Alpha Smart keyboards allows individualism in learning for each student. These portable keyboards have been used in all subject areas. |
BostonValeria Lowe-Barehmi
617-635-8109 |
Timilty Middle School
Grade Level: Middle Read 180's The Way: Using Technology to Improve Students Reading Struggling readers become fluent by using READ 180, a research-based intervention program. Students build effective mental models through motivating video topics delivered on CD-ROM followed by reading high-interest material. Systemic instruction in a word study, comprehension, and vocabulary follow each lesson. Individualized reading instruction is delivered through the software enabling activities such as independent reading, modeled reading, and targeted skills instruction. |
BrocktonAnne Thompson
508-580-7568 |
East Junior High School
Grade Level: Middle Monitoring Fitness Through Technology A collaborative curriculum unit developed for middle school children by health and physical education teachers to promote the benefits of physical fitness, the importance of exercise, the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise, and understanding the elements of fitness and refining individual fitness plans. Throughout the unit and activities, heart rate monitors are utilized to provide students an understanding of what happens inside the body when activity is taking place. In addition to physical education and health, this technology effectively involves science, math, and other curriculums. |
BrooklineBruce Mallory
617-713-5167 |
Brookline High School
Grade Level: High School Transforming Geometry with Technology Math 1-Intensive is a ninth grade geometry class which serves a more heterogeneous population than has previously been taught at Brookline High School. This course is unique and innovative because of the wide range of students enrolled, and because of its twice a week computer lab (the class meets six times a week instead of the normal four, thus the name Intensive). During the past two years, the Math 1-Intensive teachers have written, collected, taught and revised over fifty activities for the computer lab portion of this course. With the help of this grant, we would like to continue our work on these activities, share our work.with Brookline High School colleagues, and disseminate our work to the local and national math education community. Additionally, this grant will allow us to develop technology activities for a new tenth grade Math 2-Intensive course which has been created in response to the success of the Math 1-Intensive course. |
CambridgeKaren Spaulding
617-349-6318 |
Morse School
Grade Level: Middle Biodiversity Counts in Cambridge Pairs of students record observations in a four-squared meter plot of land in a site located within walking distance of the school building. Students generate and identify investigable questions, collect and analyze data, and learn how to use tools such as stereoscopes, hand lenses, thermometers, Burlese funnels, arthropod traps, and soil testing equipment. Through the Biodiversity Counts web site at the Museum of Natural History in New York City students access information from their database to compare the organisms they have found with those found by other students across the United States. Digital cameras are used to create electronic field guides of the plants and arthropods that students observe in their plots. Teams from each school publish their finding on the Cambridge Science Department Diversity and Variation web site. |
CantonLisa Hansen
781-821-5085 |
Hansen Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Connecting Readers and Authors Children that are matched with appropriate texts tend to read more; when children read more they become better readers. This web based language arts database seeks to match children to books that make sense to them. The web page is devoted to reflecting the diversity of interests and abilities within each classroom, while matching students with appropriate texts. Book responses are written by students and then entered into the web based database. As a result, students are able to share their responses with peers, as well as search the database to find a great book to read! |
ChicopeeSusan Pease
413-536-2118 |
Fairview Veterans Memorial Middle School
Grade Level: Middle In Our Own Words To improve student English Language arts and writing skills, five 8th grade classes in English Language Arts, Bilingual and Special Education collaborate on publishing a Literary Magazine, by using technology tools to write, edit and publish the best writing pieces. |
ClintonMelissa Wallace
978-365-2434 |
Clinton Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Celebrating 150 years of Cultural and Heritage in Our Town Quilt Project Participating elementary school classrooms developed a project around the unique history of the town in the form of a quilt, and a school wide exhibit. The quilt tells a story of the children's knowledge of our town with scanned on artwork, and scanned iron on pictures. Each classroom chooses one area of Clinton to study and make a display for a school wide exhibit. Classrooms creatively design Kid Pix Slide Shows to show what they have learned about Clinton. Ultimately, creating and publishing an electronic student based book to be placed on the school website for public accessibility. |
Dennis-YarmouthKathleen Schrock
508-398-7660 |
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School
Grade Level: Middle The Extended Use of the AlphaSmarts in the Classroom This grant seeks to integrate AlphaSmarts throughout the sixth grade curriculum and investigate the extraordinary potential these devices have to improve teaching and learning. The AlphaSmarts, a portable keyboard and word processor will be used to improve the quality and quantity of student writing, increase access to technology for all students in the project by allowing students to use the devices both at school and home and develop uses of the AlphaSmart for use in a variety of non-word processing tasks to support teaching and learning. |
FitchburgEilleen Spinney
978-343-2149 |
Crocker Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Hands-On Assessment for "Heads-Up" Learning" A project that enhances the teachers' ability to customize the reading and English Language Arts curriculum by utilizing data to individualize instruction and create cooperative learning groups to maximize student achievement. The technology component of this project includes using handheld computers (Palm Pilot III) and PC workstations, with third party software (Learner Profile, Learner Profile to Go.) |
FitchburgPaula Giaquinto
978-345-3290 |
Crocker Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Jr. Engineers Invention and Discovery Club Elementary students divide into teams to participate in an after school project that uses the "design" process to plan, develop and construct a variety of models to solve "problems." With an infusion of technology, such as computer aided design (CAD), robotics, and science probes, students use various software to learn the basics of robot construction, computer programming and downloading and activating robot commands. |
GatewayPaul Facteau
413-667-8711 |
Gateway Regional Middle School
Grade Level: Elementary The Laptop Library Project: Using Technology to Motivate the Reluctant Reader This laptop library created for middle school students uses technology to build and improve reading skills. Reading software with enhanced graphics, sound, record keeping, and Internet capacities will be available on each laptop to help students to read at their grade level, helping students to pronounce unfamiliar words, provide definitions, and read-aloud content material to students. Using a mobile lab of I-Books, teachers are able to provide reading support in the content areas of each class. After school and evenings, the I-Books will be available for students to sign out and take home for use. In addition, Gateway's T1 line will have secure dial-up access for students who do not have Internet access at home. |
GloucesterRobin Pine
978-535-1388 |
Gloucester Public Schools
Grade Level: High School Probing into Science With Technology Students collect data in the science labs from lab experiments using a probe that is connected to a computer at one end and a substance at another end. The data collected directly from the source is accurate. The data is then analyzed, sorted, calculated, and/or graphed using software in order to make conclusions regarding the scientific theory being tested. Technology is important in order to collect accurate data, to manipulate data more efficiently, and to compare and contrast data to prove or disprove a hypothesis. |
Hamilton-WenhamJudith A. Naylor
978-468-5323 |
Miles River Middle School
Grade Level: Middle Viewing Curriculum through Multiple Lenses An eighth grade mathematics/science team create multidisciplinary curriculum units that are infused with technology. Educators throughout the state join this team to explore the use of simulation activities and we-based learning as practiced at Miles River Middle School. Although developed by an eighth grade math/science team, the concepts presented are applicable to all content areas and in grades 4-12. Participants will create projects that address the respective frameworks' learning standards and are ready for implementation in their classrooms. |
HopkintonLinda Henderson
508-497-9820 |
Hopkinton High School
Grade Level: High School WebQuest Development Lighthouse Project Teachers learn to create WebQuests to develop a teaching unit based on state standards, and improve web searching skills to capture Internet sites for students to explore a focused research question. WebQuests advance student learning by promoting collaboration while researching an Essential Question. Teachers will also learn to improve their rubrics to effectively focus, motivate, and assess high levels of student learning. |
HudsonKathy Brown
978-567-6107 |
Hudson High School
Grade Level: High School Secondary Understanding of Mathematics and Science This project provides linkage and adjacent Physics and Calculus labs with 6 student computer stations each equipped with analytic probeware, presentation systems, discipline specific software and simulations for analyzing motion, force, and energy. The paired labs provide teachers and students with the technology necessary for all students to develop conceptual understanding of important science and mathematics concepts envisioned in the science and mathematics frameworks. The availability of tools for real-time data collection, representation, and analysis created a natural conceptual link between physics and calculus. This project compliments the implementation of high quality curriculum.materials through the integration of technology into mathematics and science. |
LongmeadowSandy Budreau
413-565-4260 |
Williams Middle School
Grade Level: Middle Exploring and Achieving the learning Standards through WebQuests Grade 6 students use teacher created web pages, to expand and enhance the history curriculum - "Ancient Civilizations." This Ancient Egypt WebQuest is an integrated curriculum with the history of ancient Egypt as its focus. This web based instruction or WebQuest also allows learning to expand over the community. Students access this from school or home, but other grade levels and other schools used it for "explore activities" or to challenge younger students. |
LowellSophia Arguoyan
978-937-2846 |
Abraham Lincoln School of Discovery
Grade Level: Elementary The I of the Internet Utilizing the Internet with first graders, students produce an authentic, cross-curricular project, focusing on literacy, writing and science. The main objective of these thematic tasks is to instruct small groups of diverse learners on how to gather information (Informational Literacy) from the Internet. They construct meaningful descriptive paragraphs, generate a 3-dimensional writing ball that showcases each students' work and share their success with others in oral presentations. |
LowellSally Langlais
603-429-2334 |
Lowell Public Schools
Grade Level: Middle Around the World With Food and Thoughts Sixth grade students work together to create a cookbook using Alpha Smart word processors. Each student writes down an important family recipe and a personal story to go along with it. They also include pictures of their families. Students' are given the opportunity to take a digital camera home to take pictures of their recipe and family to add to their page in the completed cookbook. With the help of AlphaSmarts, students are able to work at home, so when in the computer lab they don't have to spend as much time word processing and use the time on more sophisticated computer functions. |
LowellEileen L. Horan
978-937-8973 |
Butler School
Grade Level: Middle Developing Language and Computer Skills through Art This project is a year long project that transitions from traditional Art media through computer and Multimedia Technology. It enables students to gain flexible and creative knowledge of the technological skills necessary to design, develop and publish a product incorporating all of the students' ideas and family backgrounds while communicating curriculum concepts to audiences inside and outside the classroom. The writing portion requires the students to apply their language skills extensively. |
LowellPatricia A. Del Llano
978-937-8900 |
Lowell High School
Grade Level: High School Galeria Latina - A Multimedia and Bilingual Approach to Integrating Curriculum through the Arts This project focuses on writing for research, writing for interpretation, and writing for publication to improve English and Spanish writing skills. The Galeria Latina project will be favorably enhanced by technology. Using the new graphic arts lab at Lowell High School, students will have immediate access to the Internet and several software programs that will allow them to do word processing, produce original artwork, and create video and audio clips. Students will be able to do more sophisticated graphics, animations, digital video clips, audio clips, web pages that can be downloaded quickly and in-depth CD-ROM production. The group project will be the development of a CD-ROM that will be used as an educational tool by Spanish, Art, and ESL teachers. |
Lynn.Sharon Tucker
781-593-1680 |
The Assistive Technology for Lynn Children (ATLC)
Grade Level: Middle Learning with Assistive Technology: ATLC ATLC equips students with the technological tools that are essential to the academic and interpersonal development of the student community. Reaching far and wide beyond their walls they provide professional development to special needs colleagues on the progressive assistive technology available to students and staff. Regular education classroom teachers with inclusion students and special needs teachers and classrooms are a model to the district assistive technology implementations. They are committed to share their experiences and knowledge of the best practices of assistive technology in regular education and modified educational setting and to document growth in student achievement of all children. |
LynnfieldCraig Stone
781-334-5800 |
Summer Street School
Grade Level: K-12 Individualizing Physical Education Through the Use of Heart Rate Monitors Using heart rate monitors, physical education teachers successfully educate their students on how to achieve cardiovascular fitness. Every student in the system learns how to have an accurate and sustainable knowledge of how heart rate impacts fitness, and the ability use technology to scientifically design a fitness program that is safe and effective. The physical education department has successfully brought technology into the human laboratory, the gymnasium. |
Mendon-UptonMarie McManus
508-634-1590 |
Mendon-Upton Regional Schools
Grade Level: Elementary Journey to the Bottom of the World A standards-based science unit that "virtually" allows students to travel to Antarctica, our least explored and southernmost continent. This unit challenges ALL students to adopt "Habits of Mind" necessary to grow as citizens of our planet. Students conduct research, analyze data, and capitalize on the multimedia resources of our classroom to present their findings. Students use the Internet, CD ROMs and available literature to research this frozen continent and the animals who live there. This unit emphasizes the integration of history, mathematics and science. Technology, when integrated with a unit such as this, enables students to bring their learning to a level beyond that which might have been possible otherwise. |
MiltonChristine Ronan
617-696-4814 |
Milton High School
Grade Level: High School Online Learning Adventures High School teachers create WebQuests, design PowerPoint presentations that integrate images and resources from the WWW and CD-ROM's and access and integrate online services: free Internet hard drive space, free web pages, and bookmarking systems for teachers and students and integrate hardware/software technologies into classroom and online learning lessons and projects. Teachers observe and model existing projects as they develop original technology-enhanced curriculum projects. In addition, teachers design their own classroom or unit web page with links to their curriculum project, department page, or external WWW resources complementary to the their curriculum. |
Mohawk TrailTheresa Page
413-339-8316 |
Hawlemont Regional School
Grade Level: Elementary Inspiration Is What Every Student Needs: From Thoughts to Published Pieces on the Web Elementary students use the tool Inspiration to create a visual format to recognize how ideas relate to each other. Inspiration gives the learner a tool to produce a picture of ideas or concepts in a brainstorming format. Then from the visual map, outlines can be produced with ease. From these outlines, compositions can be constructed. Finally, finished written pieces are published on a class/school web page. |
NashobaLeslie Carroll
978-889-0539 |
Nashoba Regional Schools
Grade Level: Middle Exploring Navigation Seventh grade students learn the skills to navigate on the ocean using correct nautical terms, tools and skills. They use the Internet, online encyclopedias, CDs and printed material for research on explorers, ancient ships, and navigational methods and instruments. Microsoft Office components are used to complete individual presentations on their information. They complete a packet of hands-on navigation activities learning various navigational calculations and explorations. |
NeedhamLinda Conneely
781-455-0800 |
Needham High School
Grade Level: High School Integrating Technology into Grades 9-10 Life Science/Technology Frameworks Ninth grade Needham High Schools students learn biology through research, the design of web pages and other multimedia technology in a collaborative manner, as well as to provide opportunities for professional growth among science teachers and serve as a model for enhancing science curriculum by using technology. Students learn about ecosystems and biomes in creative ways using a variety of technologies. |
New BedfordLarry Burns
508-997-4511 |
New Bedford Public Schools
Grade Level: K-12 The Design Process: Investigating Robotics The Design Process: Investigating Robotics, students demonstrate their understanding of the basic principles of scientific investigation and the design process, as well as the safe use of tools. In the inquiry-centered classroom, students design, construct and program their robots using state-of-the-art robot kits that interface with PCs through interactive software, and most importantly, their own intuition, curiosity and problem-solving skills. |
New BedfordJoan Cote
508-997-4511 |
New Bedford Public Schools
Grade Level: Middle It's not the Heat;It's the humidity Heterogeneously-grouped and ethnically diverse eighth graders school-wide engage in the real and meaningful application of skills in computers, math, science and social science through hands-on experience with the AirWatch Weather Station. AirWatch gathers real-time local weather data, making the school's web page a community resource. Through its Worldwide School Weather Network, students share their data and experiences with AirWatch partner schools, breaking down classroom walls and encouraging environmental awareness. AirWatch supports technology literacy, promotes the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills, provides a useful context for Internet communications, encourages environmental awareness, and student confidence. |
New Salem-Wendell
Victoria Munroe.Carol Holzberg
978-544-6926 |
Swift River School
Grade Level: Elementary Fly like a Butterfly, Sting like a Bee: Technology-Enriched Insect Studies Elementary students engage in a variety of science-oriented, inquiry-based real-world activities targeting the life cycles of several insects. Electronic activities involving graphing and charting, Internet-based research, digital still and video cameras, and computer-generated art are used to help youngsters think scientifically, strengthen their understanding of the animal kingdom, and develop technological literacy. By engaging in "real" science (using technology to gather, analyze and share information about common insects in their everyday environment; sharing and analyzing), they begin to think of themselves as real scientists and learn to appreciate the work that scientists do. |
North AndoverKaren Brown
978-794-1677 |
Bradstreet Early Childhood Center
Grade Level: Elementary Extend the Frameworks with a Kid Pix Slide Show Success for All. Children ages 5 and 6 use Kid Pix to create a slide show culminating a Social Studies Unit about Feelings. Each child's page includes a border using stamps and a recorded message related to their feelings expressed in their drawing. Every child regardless of developmental or academic restraints are eager and excited about creating a slide show that is exhibited to other classes, teachers and parents. |
North Attleborough HSDavid R. Vito
401-463-5279 |
North Attleborough High School
Grade Level: Middle Biotechnology Across the Curriculum - An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of DNA and Protein Electrophoresis This Enhancement Project introduces "cutting edge" biotechnology into the science curriculum. Students are introduced to DNA and protein structure-function relationships and how it impacts the human condition both in health and disease states. Students are kept abreast of the deciphering of the genetic code through the Human Genome Project and the significant emerging technologies associated with it. Dissemination of this project involve a student generated multimedia presentation. Students will present this multimedia-teaching unit in order to educate science teachers and their classes in the use of biotechnology in the classroom. |
NorthamptonGregg J. Krause
413-587-1550 |
Robert K. Finn School
Grade Level: Elementary Kids Own TV. Students produce motivating video projects (called WRKF - Kids Own TV) aligned to the Massachusetts frameworks and work in heterogeneous cooperative groups to develop and implement curriculum-based projects for themselves and for other students. Students are presented with a choice of assignments (i.e. Revolutionary War) related to a curriculum area. They utilize library, media and Internet resources to complete the assignment, incorporating their writing and multimedia excerpts into a completed video production, using AvidCinema for the PC, iMovie for the Mac and other video editing equipment and peripherals. |
Pioneer ValleyMary Leyden
413-648-9356 |
Bernardston Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Candid Candidates Functioning as a part of a presidential campaign committee, students at Bernardston Elementary work collaboratively to create 1-2 minute campaign advertisements for a past president of the U.S. Using Inspiration 6.0, online resources, reference cds and texts, video and sound clips and Avid Cinema students create and edit their presidential campaign ads. Through their participation in this project, students develop critical viewing skills and a deeper understanding of media literacy concepts. |
PittsfieldIrene Vassos
413-499-9507 |
Pittsfield Public Schools
Grade Level: K-12 Own Your Own Data! Relational files to Manage Special Education Services Allowing technology to empower administrators as well as teachers; technology tools should be simple to use, easy to maintain, and be reliable. The technology coordinator at Pittsfield Public Schools has developed a complete set of administrative database "tools" for Special Education administrators, teachers, and students students that will now be shared with other school districts as a result of funding. An IEP module allows teachers and administrators to generate IEP's that meet new state requirements and allows the alignment of IEP objectives to the Frameworks. By disseminating their work to other districts, they hope to improve its capabilities and design through sharing ideas and creativity. Thus all will benefit, and services to students can be enhanced. |
Rochester Memorial
508-763-2049
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Rochester Memorial School
Grade Level: Elementary Sitting on the Dock of the Bay This project focuses on the human impact on the marine environment, combined with the use of web-based learning activities and research modules incorporates the use of spreadsheets, databases, CBL probes, and the Internet to research and understand the impact of humans on the marine mammals, ocean geography, marine ecosystems, market products, and marine pollution. Teachers use planning time to discuss implementation of this project, impact on students, and the development/refinement of WebQuests and associated learning tools of Hotlists, Treasure Hunts, Scavenger Hunts, and use of hardware (probes) and software within the classroom and in the field. |
RockportCheryl B. Sullivan
978-546-1220 |
Rockport Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary I.M.P.A.C.T. - Inquisitive Multiage Problem-solvers Apply Critical Thinking This grant project outlines different methods of inquiry for the students to participate in scientific investigation and technological problem solving. It also involves mathematics, statistics and probability. This year's Multiage theme is The Year of the Ocean, so the children will incorporate this grant into that theme. Students will take field trips to the ocean and measure the water's temperature with Palm Pilot Probes, and documenting their findings. This grant provides the funding for such projects throughout the year, to enhance the student's knowledge and advance their technological skills. |
RockportAnne Wonson-Curry
978-281-3980 |
Rockport Middle School
Grade Level: Middle TeachCam The TeachCam project is designed to enhance the student's exposure and understanding of the microscopic world. It entices the student by coupling high tech and biotech exposure and allures the learner into a new realm of the unseen. Also, this project, via the Web, welcomes a diversity of districts to share in our technologically driven program and loaner outreach concept. |
SandwichJane Macdonald
508-888-4900 |
Sandwich High School
Grade Level: High School Technology and Communications and Management The Technology and Communications management program provides an excellent model for schools engaged in the redesign and implementation of traditional "business education" programs. The TCM is rich in technology integration into the subject matter of the Curriculum Frameworks, the pedagogy of the curriculum frameworks, and local technology plans. TCM provides four strands of concentration: Computerized Office Technologies, Graphic Communications (Web design and publishing), Computerized Engineering, and Strategic Management (Operations, Retail, and Foods). An extensive focus on community based, real world learning activities is consistent theme in all four strands within the TCM program. |
ScituateCharles F. Lindgren
781-383-1038 |
Gates Intermediate School/Scituate High School
Grade Level: Middle Weathergate 2001 - A meteorological Odyssey Through the Science and Technology Frameworks Weathergate 2001 is a continuation of an interactive, multimedia Internet project involving Gates students, grades 6-8, in a yearlong study of weather throughout the U.S. Students select a city and use weather data collected from the Internet to construct graphs, interpret data, and write an essay based upon their data analysis. The students experience "live" weather conditions as they occur, manipulate real weather data, and extend their learning beyond our local community. A website was created to post student's work and invite other schools to participate. Goals for this year include: integrating more students, subscribe to the Automated Weather Service to increase contacts with other schools, add more interactive labs, and improve the quality of work. |
SherbornSuzanne Rich
508-655-0630 |
Pine Hill School
Grade Level: Elementary Webbing the Solar System Third graders are divided into partners or small groups to investigate and report back on a particular planet; sun, moon, meteors, clouds or other objects in the sky. Students use a variety of software packages to do their research. Some of the titles include the following: Hartley's Golden Book Encyclopedia, Where in the Solar System is Carmen SanDiego. Last year, they created Hyper Studio stacks to exhibit their research. This year, as a result of the Lighthouse Grant students will create web pages. See web site: http://doversherborn-regional.k12.ma.us/~charlie_laurent/LaurentKidsPages.html. |
SomervilleMichelle Loconto
617-625-6600 |
The Cummings School
Grade Level: Middle Exploring Science Through Technology Students use technology in order to develop and enhance their science and writing skills while answering their own questions. Students manipulate and explore hands-on and on-line science tools. Students use the Internet for research and data collection. They also are each paired with their own science professional via E-mail to further their research capabilities. They present their findings using current multimedia technology. The project encompasses many of the strands and standards in the MA Curriculum Frameworks. |
SouthbridgeAnn M. Rose
508-764-5475 |
Charlton St. School
Grade Level: Elementary The Theater Approach For the last six years one of our third grade classes, which always includes 6-8 students in need of speech and language service, along with the school Speech and Language Pathologist, have entertained and informed the entire school using a variety of presentation styles. Internet connections, word-processing, webpage, timeline software, digital cameras and VCRs support this project and make it possible to put together four productions a year performed by the students. The most involved is the school play. The entire process improves oral reading, speaking, following directions, with the added bonus of improving self-esteem. |
WakefieldMaryalice Siafakas
781-246-6460 |
Greenwood School
Grade Level: Elementary I DID IT I DID IT is a third grade reading and writing project which encompasses all areas of the curriculum. The Iditarod Race will be an integral part of the project. Technology is inherent to the project: online web sites will provide information to compare and contrast Alaska's and Massachusetts land masses, temperature, cities and recreational activities; students will use technology to explore alternate ways of expressing themselves in their writing; word processing skills will be increased, and incorporated into math, science, reading and social studies. Computers will be used to create writing samples, communicate with Alaskan pen pals, create spread sheets, chart a musher's progress through the race and create a classroom webpage. |
WareKim Denney
413-967-6234 |
Ware Middle School
Grade Level: Middle Westward Expansion Beginning with the Louisiana Purchase and Lewis and Clark's exploration, students use a variety of technology to experience the events that shaped our nation. Over the course of ten weeks they view videos, experience computer simulations including one based on the ill-fated Donner party, and create maps, stories and journals as if they were living during that time. The final product for all students is a guidebook or computer generated portfolio of pieces reflecting on life during the early 1800's. |
WellesleyKathy Rielly
781-446-6210 |
Wellesley Public Schools
Grade Level: Pre-School Creating Accessible Learning Environments: Innovative Technology Tools and Strategies to Meet the Cognitive and Language Needs of Young Learners The goal of this project is to encourage close collaboration among technology specialists, early childhood and special educators, and to seek innovative ways to adapt instruction to make early literacy learning experiences more accessible to our young children with cognitive and language delays or deficits. Grant resources will allow Wellesley to expand professional development offerings to include a larger group of early childhood staff, to purchase additional hardware and accessible software to better equip classrooms, to further explore newly developed technologies for use with this special population of children, and to share this innovative project with colleagues in the district and across the state. |
West SpringfieldJennifer Hamre
413-263-3314 |
Fausey School
Grade Level: Elementary Multimedia Mania Students use multimedia software as a presentation tool for reports, research, creative writing and book reports during their computer lab time. Hyperstudio, EasyBook, Word, Inspiration, Kid Pix Studio Deluxe, and Type to Learn are applications used to promote writing on a variety of levels across the curriculum. Since lessons are only one hour long, once per week, their hope is to incorporate these writing projects into a classroom setting. Every aspect of the curriculum focuses on developing writing skills at the elementary level, and this project incorporates computer technology in the the classroom across the curriculum to encourage and develop these skills. |
WestfieldDenise Quinn
413-572-6428 |
Highland Elementary School
Grade Level: Elementary Our School Community Grade two bilingual students get acquainted with the support staff within their school by formulating questions, interviewing the support staff, taking their pictures with a digital camera, and incorporating all of the resulting information into a slide show. This entire project provides exciting, hands-on interaction with technology and staff personnel. The entire project not only incorporated several learning standards, but succeeded in familiarizing the students with the people "behind the scenes" in their school and left them with a much stronger sense of immediate community. |
WestfordVictoria Staley
978-692-5591 |
Westford Public Schools
Grade Level: K-6 Microworlds: Magnifying those Magnificent, Mesmerizing Mircrobes This fifth grade, hands-on, interdisciplinary project integrates science engineering/technology with English/language arts, math, instructional technology and health to showcase the students' learning across these curricula areas. Students design their own magnifying apparatus and use Kid Pix and Apple Works to create graphic representations. Through a variety of research, including the Internet, students gain a greater understanding of microorganisms and their environment, structures, life cycles, adaptations to their environment, niche in the ecosystem, and interactions with abiotic and biotic factors in their environment. |
WestfordAnne Marie Marcella
978-692-5582 |
Abbot School
Grade Level: Elementary Traveling the Silk Road to explore Ancient China and India Fourth Grade students expand their view of history, and deepen their appreciation for other cultures and civilizations through a variety of learning experiences using the Internet. Students have researched and evaluated information about Ancient Civilizations, and have completed an Egyptian Scavenger Hunt, as well as a WebQuest about Mesopotamia. This year's Lighthouse Grant will allow us to expand our existing project to include Ancient China and India. Students will experience these cultures through a number of focused art and music activities. Community experts and an artist in residence approach will be used to integrate the arts, technology, and social studies curriculum. Students will share the result of their research through multimedia presentations, play productions, ceramic models characteristic of individual dynasties, and composition of traditional music. |
WestwoodDonna Cantarella
781-326-7500 |
Downey School
Grade Level: K-6 Learning: In Depth Learning: In Depth is a unique and innovative project that combines software with a menu approach, outlining essential questions for in-depth research on ocean life topics. Students engage in inquiry activities into oceanography, marine life and related topics in earth, environment and life sciences. Using Tom Snyders' The Great Ocean Rescue as a spring board, students have the opportunity to engage in inquiry on topics of their choice from a variety of entry points. Providing a variety of resources and technologies allows students to use the materials that best suit their unique learning styles. |
WorcesterAnne Marie Dyer
508-799-3554 |
Worcester Public Schools
Grade Level: K-12 In the Movies through Avid Cinema Students in the accelerated sixth grade use Avid Cinema to create and present an edited video project in which sound, graphics and both still and video images are integrated into an interdisciplinary product including Math, Science, and Social Studies clips. Students are allowed to use their own creativity in adding any appropriate images and sound as long as they use the required video clips of certain math, science, social studies and computer projects. The final product is output onto videotape for the student to take home and share. |
WorcesterSuzanne F. Miville
508-799-3594 |
Goddard School of Science and Technology
Grade Level: Elementary Music...It Isn't Just About Singing Anymore The music room and program at Goddard consists of a 13 station computer lab that provides Internet access for student music research and educational music software(Tracks, MiBac, Music Time). This provides each student in grades 3-6 the opportunity to explore, create and gain hands-on, practical application of their music studies as specified by the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Frameworks. The addition of a Yamaha MIE system will be the cornerstone necessary to take the current music curriculum, expand the use of technology in a traditionally "un-technological" subject area and extend it school-wide. This system will also be the basis used to develop a model for other educators to emulate. |
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