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Arts
Lane Technical High School Artwork Restoration Project Gallery
- 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.
Bilingual Education
- Electronic, Xross Cultural, Hypertextual Academy of Non-Native Gatherings in English.
- Set up as a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English though the World Wide Web. Site is supported by the Language Learning Lab of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Foreign Languages
- University of Chicago French verb conjugation machine
Geography
- 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.
Interdisciplinary
- 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.
- In Ms. Lococo's second grade at Washington Irving School in Oak Park, Illinois students are studying communities. Several activities have been used to integrate this theme into mathmatics, geography, language arts and social skills development.
The Iditarod Dog Sled Race
- Developed by Judy Bernard, Edgewood School, Woodridge, IL for grades 4-5, who used Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives to plan the unit.
- 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.
- Integrating reptiles into art, music and physical education in Oak Park District 97, Illinois.
- 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.
Mathematics
- Examining the usefulness of advanced placement calculus for college Through Gopher and the Internet. Students can determine whether they should take the AP exam by interacting with college and universities that they would like to attend. A networking project by math teachers Evan Glazer and Bryan Weinert at Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL.
- An advanced algebra project designed by math teacher Evan Glazer at Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL.
- What does similarity have to do with chopping broccoli? A lot, actually. Students can explore the notion of self-similarity in a geometric pattern called fractals. Fractals are colorful designs which incorporate a lot of mathematics. A student project and assignment by Mathematics Department of Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL.
- Sample group projects from University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education course taught by Professor Maria Varelas and made available by the students.
- The problems are created by the fifth grade harristown math group.
- Sample projects from University of Illinois at Chicago College of Education course taught by Professor Maria Varelas and made available by the students.
- In this activity, students will use the Internet and exponential regression to help them find an affordable automobile at a reasonable price. If the price is not so reasonable, then at least students will have proof to show the car salesperson that the sticker price is a bit steep for their pocket book. An Internet project by mathematics teacher, Evan Glazer at Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL.
- The purpose of this project is to discover, through experimentation and surveying, whether a relationship exists between two different variables. A statistics project by Evan Glazer, mathematics teacher at Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, IL.
Reading & Literature
- 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.
Sciences
- University Primary School in Champaign, Illinois children in the Col. Wolfe classroom are able to control an MRI scanner twice a week to study live chicken embryos as they develop. The project, run by a collaboration which includes the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Project SEARCH (a U. Ill. science outreach program), the College of Veterinary medicine, and the University's Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Larboratory, allows students to control an MRI scanner and study the developing chicken embryos without causing them harm.
- Lesson plans for 39 weeks, each of which include objectives, strategies/activities, evaluations and references.
- Students, teachers, and researchers working together to practice science in the classroom.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An environmental issue/problem or a bioethical issue from Latin School of Chicago.
- Students at Milford High School are collecting environmental data on the Sugar Creek watershed and comparing it with land use practices over time.
- Because of the uneven heating of the earth by the sun, differences in pressure are established. These differences cause air parcels to move from areas of relatively higher pressure to areas of lower pressure. This is the birth of wind. Additional forces then interact with the moving air parcel and influence its direction and velocity.
- 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.
- In an effort to create an awareness about the bluebirds throughout the state, the Chicago Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with the Natural Heritage division of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, The Illinois Natural History Survey and the Illinois Audubon Society, began the Illinois Bluebird Project.This project will bring together bluebird enthusiasts statewide. Project personnel will coordinate observations from volunteers to assess population numbers and nesting habitat. Date received will be computerized at the Academy and analyzed for the annual summary report by the Natural History Survey.
- 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 Placement 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 most rudimentary.
- 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.
- Rupley students are examining plants and animals at Busse Woods Forest Preserve and comparing them with Academy collections.
- Simmon Middle School students are studying plant and animal populations and wetland conditions at the Wolfe Wildlife Refuge Restoration Project in Oak Lawn.
- Students at Chatsworth are conducting a study of prairie plants in their area.
- Students in the science classes at Latin School of Chicago have constructed the sites about flies and fast plants.
- Introductory module on the biochemistry of drugs in a first-year general chemistry high school course.
- Harristown students are photographing natural prairie grasses, wildflowers, and animals at a prairie located near Decatur.
Social Studies
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- by Mrs. Julis and Mrs. Apter in District 96, Illinois.The assignment is to choose an important event in American history that occurred between 1950 and 1991 and "build" a newspaper around it. To make the newspaper authentic, students will have to do research on their topic and on what America was like at this time. Include headings, bylines,pictures, photgraphs, and anything else they think will make their project better
- Mr. Ramme's 5th graders at Broadmeadow Elementary School, Rantoul, Illinois have been writing stories with their computers using a software program called ONCE UPON A TIME. This program allows the student to create a book using objects and text. These same students are also learning to network sending letters and attached documents through e-mail.
Special Topics
- Projects developed by teachers of Horace Mann Elementary School, Rock Island, IL, in collaboration with Augustana College Library Special Collections Department.
- Online learning community for students.
- Projects developed by teachers of Rock Island High School, Rock Island, IL, in collaboration with Augustana College Library Special Collections Department.
Guides To Educational Resources
- The Illinois Learning Mosaic goal is to create a collaborative working and learning environment for those interested in education and technology in Illinois.
- A listing of some useful resources for educators..
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