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Kindergarten - Grade 5
Chicago's Water
- The Lab Schools' contribution to Globalearn's Internation Expedition While Globalearn's expedition went to Turkey to learn how water is used there, the students in Mrs. Dorman's 5th grade class in University of Chicago Lab Schools investigated the use of water in Chicago.
- Created by Marilyn Healy at Bardwell Elementary School , Aurora, Illinois, through participation in the Fermilab LINC class. This is an online project that introduces primary students to the concept of the internet, telecommunications, and e-mail. For teachers the project has the purpose of integrating telecommunication into their existing curriculum and class instruction. It provides a link between the real world and what students learn in the classroom.
- This project was developed in the spring of 1995 by Mr. Ramme and his 5th grade students at Broadmeadow Elementary School, Illinois. The project had its origin from the students extensive studies in entomology and their fun times in playing "Where in the USA is Carmen SanDiego?" The project was released onto the Internet in the spring of 1995 and met with great success.
- Developed by Judy Bernard, Edgewood School, Woodridge, IL for grades 4-5, who used Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives to plan the unit.
- This web site was developed by the students in Ms. Kathy Dorman's 1995-96 5th Grade Class at University of Chicago Lab Schools. The stories and maps are entirely student work. Maps were drawn by hand then scanned; map titles were added by the students using Adobe Photoshop. Students wrote and edited their stories, by hand and on computer. Then they made final corrections suggested by a teacher.
- The problems are created by the fifth grade harristown math group.
- Rupley students are examining plants and animals at Busse Woods Forest Preserve and comparing them with Academy collections.
- The unit, "A Celebration of Prairie Life," is an eight-week multidisciplinary study for fourth grade in Oak Park district 97, Illinois that integrates several subjects, including the fine arts: social studies, language arts, science, mathematics, music, visual arts, dance, and drama. The choice of the prairie as a topic for integrated study provided for natural connections between the subject areas.
- Project by 4th graders at Carroll-Rosenwald School, Chicago, IL. On Friday May 3, 1996, the 3rd grade students in Room 104 at Rosenwald held a civil trial. On trial was Goldilocks, the famous golden-haired beauty of Goldilocks and the Three Bears fame, who had been charged with trespassing, stealing and property damage.
Grade 6 - Grade 8
- Created by the World History students at Arthur High School in Arthur, Illinois. This project was sponsored by the Illinois State Board of Education. Research information was provided by the University Museum at Southern Illinois University- Carbondale.
- Students at Gavin are researching an endangered Lake County animal and its habitat. They use the data to identify, graph, and explain the changes that have occurred over time.
- Students at Millstadt Consilidated School are researching endabgered species of St. Clair County.
- Project to create a newspaper around an historical event. Developed by Mrs. Julis and Mrs. Apter of Twin Groves Junior High School, Buffalo Grove, IL.
- One of the most spectacular artifacts housed at the World Heritage Museum at the University of Illinois in Urbana is this mummy acquired in 1989 from a Chicago antiquities dealer. Unlock its secrets with the help of modern medical imagery, a supercomputer, and an archeologist.
- The students are studying Futurism and its relationship to both the end of the 19th century and the end of our century in Mr. Pinchot's 8th grade U.S. History class at Lake Zurich School District 95.
- Mathematics, a collaborative project, using the concept of as the focus, is a home page on the WWW. This multidisciplinary project which includes math, history, English and thinking skills is designed for fifth through eighth graders.
- Simmon Middle School students are studying plant and animal populations and wetland conditions at the Wolfe Wildlife Refuge Restoration Project in Oak Lawn.
Grade 9 - Grade 12
- Created by the World History students at Arthur High School in Arthur, Illinois. This project was sponsored by the Illinois State Board of Education. Research information was provided by the University Museum at Southern Illinois University- Carbondale.
- Lesson plans for 39 weeks, each of which include objectives, strategies/activities, evaluations and references.
- One of the most spectacular artifacts housed at the World Heritage Museum at the University of Illinois in Urbana is this mummy acquired in 1989 from a Chicago antiquities dealer. Unlock its secrets with the help of modern medical imagery, a supercomputer, and an archeologist.
- An innovative network science project, in which students evaluate their school's heating and lighting systems, and then share their data over theInternet. Students thus form scientific research communities in which they learn about the production, cost, and management of the energy upon which both theirschool and their society depend.
- The object of this project is to integrate linear functions, quadratic functions, parametric equations, and concepts in physics in a problem solving situation using the Geometer's SketchPad. Physics Project by Evan Glazer at Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL.
- Lesson plans for 39 weeks, each of which include objectives, strategies/activities, evaluations and references. Other materials available are the Advanced Placement course outline and the Advanced Placeme nt Physics Lab Manual
- Lesson plans for 39 weeks, each of which include objectives, strategies/activities, evaluations and references.
- What follows are some high school modeling lessons and projects spanning a broad range of sophistication. For the most part, they deal with population dynamics and they are biologically oriented, although there are some chemistry and physics models as well. An attempt has been made to rank the various projects by how "advanced" they are, with the first ones being the mostrudimentary.
- An online tutorial covering motion concepts such as kinematics, Newton's laws, vectors, projectiles, work and energy, and momentum. The Physics Classroom offers instruction, questions to check understanding, and a wealth of informative graphics. The material is suitable for a first-year high school physics student. (Tom Henderson, Glenbrook South High School).
- The majority of the resources on this page deal with Physics C (calculus based physics). Other physics students will also find this useful.
- The students at Marshall High School (small rural school in eastern Illinois) will design, draft and engineer two solar bicycles to be entered into the Solar BikeRayce USA 96.
- Introductory module on the biochemistry of drugs in a first-year general chemistry high school course.
Relevant To All Grades K-12
- Part of the Illinois State Museum's vision is to remain at the forefront of technological advances in the delivery of cultural information to the public. At Home in the Heartland Online is an example of how the Museum is using its unique resources to advance public education through distance-learning technology.
- Online art gallery.
- An Exhibition of photographs produced as part of the University of Chicago Laboratory Middle School photography class.
- An Exhibition of digitally altered photographs produced as part of a University Of Chicago Laboratory Middle School computer/photography class.
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