89 Lighthouse Technology Grant Recipients for 2001-2002
The purpose of this grant program is to identify, enhance, and disseminate existing curriculum projects that have been implemented by classroom teachers. These projects will demonstrate effective models of teaching that incorporate new technology to motivate and support students in their learning the content of the district's curriculum guidelines and the state's learning standards. The teachers who originally implemented these projects will serve as mentors to their colleagues and new teachers, and the projects should become models for other classrooms in the school, other schools within the districts, and/or other districts in the state.
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Kristine Daniels
508-998-0265 |
Project Title: Exploring the Art of Japan
Project Overview:
Exploring the Art of Japan is a unit provides all heterogeneously grouped sixth graders at Ford Middle School the opportunity to explore the art, literature, culture and traditions of Japan. Through this community-based project, students gain an appreciation for the differences in human experience between Eastern and Western cultures. They begin to recognize people as individuals with human rights. This unit incorporates team teaching between many departments including art, computer technology, English, and social studies. Students will incorporate use of technological tools such as scanners, digital cameras, software, and the Internet to learn of our regional connected history of Japan through involvement with Japanese community members and organizations. Students will also have an opportunity to create a virtual gallery of art work set up to share and trade artwork with schools in Japan. |
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Sandra Lawrence
508-998-0265 |
Project Title: You and Your Family: What's in Your Genes?
Project Overview:
This innovative, multi-disciplinary, technology-enhanced project provides for all heterogeneously grouped eighth grade students district-wide. It encompasses Language Arts, History, Science, Visual Arts, and Computer Technology focusing on the Guiding Principles of the Massachusetts Frameworks, in order to show students that posing and responding to questions, as well as organizing their thoughts, requires them to draw on knowledge from many subject areas. In their coursework, students integrate the use of multi-media computers with color ink-jet printers, scanners, digital cameras, digital video cameras, the Internet and other appropriate software to enhance the student-centered activities in English, History, Art and Science classes. The project allows students to explore themselves, their families, and their genetic makeup, as they learn about themselves and each other as unique individuals who can contribute their distinct thoughts, dreams and talents to the class, the school and the community.
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Jackie Fortier
413-743-0876 x 128
Kathy Delisle
413-743-0876 x 216 |
Project Title: You and Your Family: KICK program
Project Overview:
Our lighthouse grant is called KICK (Kids Involved in Curriculum using KidPix). It will provide teacher training, hardware, software, and a few surprise incentives for attending the 10 workshop series. Creating technology-integrated lessons will be modeled while skills, applications, adaptations, and assessment-using KidPix will be taught. The presenters will provide open lab, resources, and one-to-one consults to participants. The final project will be a KidPix Activity Exchange where each teacher will submit one or more projects to share.
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Martha Ntiforo
Betty Upchurch
413-549-9871 |
Project Title: Elementary Students as Historians
Project Overview:
This is a student-centered research project using local history. 4th, 5th and 6th grade students at all four Amherst elementary schools will adopt local historical buildings and research the history of these buildings using primary source documents and artifacts. Students will study sources such as historical newspaper articles, period maps, and government records and also interview town residents. They will draw conclusions based on these multiple sources of information and create a web site to share their findings with other students, teachers and the community. Participating teachers will increase their own knowledge by attending a workshop on "Finding and Using Primary Documents", to be taught by experts from the University of Massachusetts Center for Computer Based Instructional Technology, the curator of the Jones Library Special Collection, and the director of the Amherst Museum at the Strong House.
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Veronique Lahey
781-316-3523 |
Project Title: Café Parisian
Project Overview:
Café Parisian consists of having the students create their own start-up company, a restaurant, in France. Through the process, conducted entirely in French, they learn to constructively use the Internet, Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point and organize their work into a complete Business and Marketing Plan. Their research covers cultural, historical, economic, linguistic and social information and supports a final oral presentation in the presence of a local professional restaurant designer. This project allows the students to express their imagination and creativity while giving them a taste of the professional world.
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Charles Shark
508-790-6445
Ellen Driscoll
508-428-3435 |
Project Title: A Comprehensive Collaboration between Special Education and Technology
Project Overview:
The initiative of the project is to have the technology classes work with the Special Education Department in developing a sequence of small adaptive computer labs for each aspect of the SPED department. We will build, network, and train staff and students to work with high technology tools. The project will have a mentoring component that has staff mentoring students, students mentoring staff and students mentoring students. All individuals will have professional training in the mentor/mentee relationship. Special Education students graduate our program and move to the Workfloor organization to continue their educational process for entrance into the adult world. Many of our regular education students, who have worked in our child development program, also go to work for Nauset Inc. As part of the project we will enhance our work at Nauset by building the clients a computer lab with all of the adaptive features necessary to make them more self-sufficient. This will be a service component where our students will train both staff and students in the use and maintenance of the equipment and programs. We will continue to recruit Minorities, ESL, Women and SPED students into our Technology program using a conference model, which we have developed, at our school.
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Gail Callahan
508-883-5087 |
Project Title: Scoring PowerPoints in the High School Curriculum
Project Overview:
The project, "Scoring PowerPoints in the High School Curriculum" will support the learning standards of the Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Frameworks while also facilitating cross-curricular connections in the areas of social studies, sciences, and the arts. This project will reach all levels of learners through visual, auditory, and physical stimuli. It will enable high school students to develop the ability to research, organize and display knowledge across disciplines in a creative, meaningful manner. In participating in this project, high school students will become both expressive and complex thinkers while mastering a technological skill. They will gain a deeper understanding of their topic by becoming designers, writers and editors of their own work. "Scoring PowerPoints" will enhance their learning by developing collaborative skills and making them effective communicators. The skills learned in this project are essential in preparing today's learners for tomorrow's challenges.
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Gary Prodanas
Judy Miller
978-922-0401 |
Project Title: Thermal Efficiency of Buildings
Project Overview:
This project includes a plan for Beverly High School to enhance a technology project that was successfully piloted last year. A Beverly High School science teacher mentored a new technology/engineering teacher in the development of a technology rich curriculum unit where student groups researched factors that affect the thermal efficiency of buildings, built prototypes, conducted tests to validate research, and finally designed the optimum thermally efficient home. During the course of implementation, students showed a clear understanding of the factors involved in heat loss, but were less clear on the interactions of all factors. The lighthouse project will strengthen student understanding through the use of computer modeling software. Computer models will be constructed to show how all factors relate to one another to create the total heat loss of a structure. A graduate level course will be offered to Beverly teachers so that the project and the computer modeling can grow beyond the grant.
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Anne Thompson
508-580-7568
Dennis Geniuch
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Project Title: Introduction of gas chromatography technology
Project Overview:
This project will target eleventh and twelfth grade students enrolled in Modern Science, Ecology, and Chemistry courses. For these students, the project will connect the science concepts to real-life applications. The students will analyze samples from an ongoing water quality study using gas chromatography with computer analysis. In alignment with the Massachusetts Frameworks for Science, students will learn maintenance, calibration, quality control, and operation procedures in gas chromatographic analysis. Students will make inferences from their analysis regarding organic components of water. Students will also simulate analysis of samples from toxicological and forensic situations. The students will base evaluation of the success of this program on the authentic performance assessments. Students will endeavor to represent an accurate learning model through their scientific reports and PowerPoint presentations. A rubric, designed by the teachers, will be used to assess the quality of the reports. Students will be trained to utilize these rubrics in preparing their reports.
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Joanne Krepelka
617-349-6478 |
Project Title: Technology Enhanced Curriculum (TEC) Development
Project Overview:
This grant focuses on the further development and expansion of a collaborative model of curriculum and professional development that integrates technology and information literacy into specific content areas in a meaningful way. Technology Enhanced Curriculum Development (TEC) is a process developed this year and implemented in grades 3-8 in a core group of schools (4) within the district. The curriculum teams through a request for proposal procedure developed units of study designed to enhance students' understanding of content specific curriculum standards. Students focused on research and study skills utilizing the Language Arts and Social Studies state frameworks. In the area of language arts open-ended research questions were utilized to gather information from different sources by applying appropriate research methods (Learning Standard 24: Language Arts.) The projects included the design and creation of coherent media productions with a clear and controlling idea, adequate detail and appropriate consideration of audience. (Learning Standard 28: Language Arts) Through various resources including the use of multimedia, computer and other formats effectively communicate information the units provided an opportunity for student's to collaborate with experts, develop ideas and publish or produce their finished products. The components of these projects are directly in line with the National Educational Technology Standards for students.
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Nancy Barker
508 866-6219 |
Project Title: Straight from the Heart
Project Overview:
In physical education class, the teacher administered the use of heart monitors with fourth grade students. Students obtained their heart rate while walking, jogging, and aerobic activities. The students assessed data retrieved from heart monitors by comparing the effect of different activity on heart rate and evaluated their progress throughout the school year. Using the Karvonen formula, students were able to determine their target heart rate and develop some strategies to maintain their target heart rate during physical activity. In the computer lab, students inputted data taken from the monitors into a spreadsheet and created graphs. After analyzing the results of the graphs, students wrote reports comparing the effects of exercise and other factors on heart rate. This project aligns with the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks in the areas of comprehensive health, language arts, and mathematics.
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Susan Pease
413 592-3501 |
Project Title: Bridging the Gap
Project Overview:
Students prepared both paper scrapbooks and PowerPoint presentations about the state of Massachusetts, the city of Chicopee, and Fairview Veterans Memorial Middle School. These projects were presented to and evaluated by fellow classmates, then exchanged with a 7th Grade class at Galena Middle School in Illinois, through e-mail.
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Melissa Wallace
978-365-4231 |
Project Title: Amusement Park Escapade
Project Overview:
Amusement Park Escapade is taught to the entire eighth grade class in a computer applications course offered to ALL students. The project is an interdisciplinary persuasive assignment to assess the students' basic competencies in using applications such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Internet Browser, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Photo Editor, and peripherals including scanners and digital cameras. The competencies are correlated with the November 2000 Educational Technology Standards (draft version). Curriculum integration is so important at this level the unit was designed to improve student learning by providing a high-level interest category, such as an amusement park, to achieve maximum outcomes in the areas of English, Math and Technology.
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Susan Ravalese
978-318-1417 x415 |
Project Title: Putting Things in Motion for Algebra II
Project Overview:
"Putting Things in Motion for Algebra II" is a Technology Lighthouse Grant for a program to share the technology integration initiatives of Susan Ravalese (math teacher at CCHS) with other teachers and students. Teachers will be trained to use two software packages (on laptop computers) with their Algebra II students. The target population is lower level Algebra II students who benefit from a concrete, active learning approach. The "Algebra Animator" interactive software package enables students to analyze the behavior of moving objects while they explore the interrelationship between the path of the moving objects, its graph, and equation. The "Probability Constructor" interactive software package enables students to discover basic principles of probability through the use of computer simulations.
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Lisa Horn
978-774-6946 |
Project Title: Imoving Through History; Using Today's Technology to Bring Yesterday Alive
Project Overview:
This project allows students to experience historical events and relationships first-hand, through the writing, directing, producing, editing, and acting in their own Imovies. Students created movies based on their own research on the internet, using primary sources, of causes of the revolutionary war. The students chose events and encounters that they decided were the most significant in relation to the start of the war. They accessed their critical thinking skills by drawing their own conclusions based on evidence they found.
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Liz McGonagle
781-326-5622 x 21 |
Project Title: Digital Video in the Classroom
Project Overview:
Classroom teachers will learn how to use digital video cameras to film students engaged in various classroom activities, particularly those involving oral presentations. Teachers will learn how to transfer their video recordings to a VHS tape, and how to add titles credits and music using a computer. They will use the finished tapes to capture student performances suitable to be used by the teacher as an assessment. The project will improve student learning through the creation of a portfolio of training videos that can be used by the staff to observe and adopt the models of instruction modeled and authentic assessment of student achievement in elementary classrooms.
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Susan Cook Thanas
781-934-7640 |
Project Title: Instructional Technology--Creative Design and Use of a Curriculum Web Quest
Project Overview:
This project successfully integrates English, Social Studies, and Technology for teachers and students. Additionally, teachers and students learn to employ a journalistic writing style while addressing an important part of their content curriculum. The task is to produce a newspaper of folk tales from around the world. Students work in groups of 3-4, selecting a country to investigate and deciding among themselves who will serve as reporters and editor. All will be graphic designers. From the resources linked to the Web Quest: Folk Tales Around the World, each group selects 4-5 folk tales from their country and rewrites the tales as newspaper articles. Each group prepares a 3-4 page newspaper (in columns) including a map and flag for their country and an appropriate gif or jpeg image for each story. The Web Quest has been successfully used with three 7th grade English classes.
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