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NSF Science Institute: Part B Assessment (E=MC2)

published: 2002
posted to site: 11/21/2002

NSF Science Institute: Part B - Assessment (E=MC2)

Goals and Objectives

Pete Christ - Powerful Learning and Simulations Software

  • To identify the elements of simulations software
  • To utilize a tool to evaluate software for appropriateness and grade level
  • To identify at least one piece of software that will be useful in your classroom
  • To identify ways to incorporate a piece of software into a current lesson, unit, or activity already being done in your classroom

Walt Dimitruk - Multimedia

  • The students will be able to successfully operate video equipment
  • The students will be able to connect video equipment to a computer
  • The students will be able to record both video and still images during the science lesson presented
  • The students will be able to create a multimedia presentation using the videos and images they have collected

Arlene Harris and Sharon Zubricky - Microsoft Power Point

  • To create a multimedia presentation using Microsoft Power Point
  • To understand and use the different view menus
  • To create new slides
  • To custom design slides
  • To enhance the presentation with:
    • Backgrounds
    • Graphics
    • Word Art
    • Text and graphic animation
    • Transitions
    • Sounds
    • Videos
    • Photos

Rebecca Gold - Internet

  • To learn to navigate the Internet using search engines, browser software, and printed reference materials to locate information relevant to the science kits being used
  • To visit known internet sites and locate additional resources that enhance the science kits being used in the classrooms
  • To explore educational sites, with relation to the kits that teachers are using, that share class science projects, lesson plans, and offer group interaction for online projects

Judy McLaughlin - Knowing Yourself as a Learner

  • Identify your preferred style of learning
  • Recognize how different learning processes affect response to inquiry based learning - implications for students

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