1995 National Teacher Of The Year Because I teach the same students for 11 years in a classmates in Flagstaff, or workon individual multicultural projects and rube goldberglike inventions http://www.ccsso.org/ntoy95.html
Extractions: The White House Rose Garden April 28, 1995 Washington, D.C.- (April 1995) Elaine B. Griffin, a native New Yorker who has helped revolutionize education in two remote Alaskan villages over the past 20 years, has been named the 1995 National Teacher of the Year. Ms Griffin, head teacher of Alaska's Kodiak Island Chiniak School, was honored at a White House Rose Garden ceremony, where President Clinton presented her with a crystal apple, the traditional symbol of teaching. The National Teacher of the Year Program is the oldest and most prestigious awards program to focus public attention on excellence in teaching. Now in its 44th year, the program is sponsored by the Council of Chief State School Officers and Scholastic Inc. "Elaine Griffin's impact on education in Alaska sets an example for teachers everywhere," said Gordon Ambach, executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers. "Her success in raising student performance and expanding personal horizons in her village school is a remarkable achievement and inspiring example for every teacher and school." Griffin, whose range of teaching excellence spans subject areas from kindergarten through high school, is credited with expanding and significantly improving the educational, social, and cultural environments of Akhiok and Chiniak villages on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
Weekly School News At the moment of truth, the students' rube goldberg still had Dr. Herman Corradettimentioned that projects like this are a wonderful way to teach the students http://www.tnonline.com/archives/news/2001weeklies/04.18/eastpenn/school.html
Intel Education: Exemplary Plans: Go Go Gadget - Invent A Machine Gifted Student Individual research projects; Plan and organize a diagram and theninvent a rube goldberg Machine who participated in the Intel® teach to the http://www.intel.com/education/unitplans/gadget/gadget.htm
Extractions: var w_thisPageId = 76; instantiateArr(100); United States Home Select a Location Site Map Contact Us ... About Intel Home Computing Business Computing Developer Reseller / Solutions Advanced Search drawNav(w_thisPageId) Learning Projects Search Exemplary Plans Unit Plan Design Scoring Guide ... Other Unit Plan Resources United States Brazil Canada France Germany Ireland Israel Italy Japan Malaysia Mexico Russia United Kingdom Students study the concepts of force, motion, and work as they analyze simple machines. They study the component simple machines in complex machines, and track the transfer of force from input (effort) to output (work). In a design challenge, students identify work they want to perform, and invent a laborsaving machine to do the job. The design steps of planning, drafting, construction, troubleshooting and reliability testing are followed before students unveil their wonderful inventions to an awed crowd. Curriculum Framing Questions Essential Questions
Imagination Fair a way to make it more complex (like the Mousetrap game, or rube goldberg projects). GenerationsHow would you teach a senior citizen how to use a computer? http://ycfsve.org/imaginationfair.htm
Extractions: create To do this, we will - - Promote enthusiasm for learning, - - Encourage high aspirations, and - - Support innovation, creativity, and vitality in the youth and community of Spencer-Van Etten. Hey, kids! Soon, we'll get to see your awesome talents imagination , and creativity at the YCFSVE Imagination Fair ! We know it will be a totally fun, totally whacky event, and you're the star! We've received terrific entries in lots of different categories. Finish working on your projects. We can't wait to see them! Don't forget, the Event Needs Form is due Monday, February 24! Imagination Fair is a celebration of imagination creativity , and innovation sponsored by the Youth and Community Foundation. Students in
Folding@Home Educational Project He tries to teach science in context by using Project Based Learning In physics hisstudents do projects anywhere from catapults, rube goldberg machines to http://folding.stanford.edu/education/tugbio.html
Extractions: Oakley, CA 94561 Email: tsezen@hotmail.com Tug Sezen teaches Chemistry, Physics and Web Publishing at Freedom High School in Oakley, California. He is the coordinator of Math Engineering Science Academy (MESA). He received his degree in Biophysics from UC Berkeley and Masters in Leadership in Educational Technology from CSU Hayward. His recent professional activities included: Mr. Sezen believes with hands on science students will retain more of what they learn, look at science with greater enthusiasm, perform high-level reasoning tasks better and solve real science problems more adeptly. He tries to teach science in context by using Project Based Learning. He has always attempted to integrate technology into his science curriculum through labs that utilize computer interfaces, sensors, probes. In physics his students do projects anywhere from catapults, Rube Goldberg machines to robotics. His chemistry students do research projects on Nanotechnology, and build Fullerene and nanotube models. Cofounder of the NASA Space Settlement Design Contest with long term association with NASA Ames Research Center. The web site he is involved and the contest did won an award by NASA headquarters.
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Instructor II and the construction of the infamous rube goldberg Machines the public through innovateand creative projects and demonstrations to being able to teach a variety http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~sventure/instructor details.html
Extractions: INSTRUCTOR POSITIONS AVAILABLE SUMMER 2003 Term Instructor I - May 1 st to August 31 st 2003 (4 positions available) *pending funding Instructor II July 1 st to August 31 st 2003 (2 positions available) * pending funding Salary : $2,000/month Contact Information Program Director: Lauren Telford Office: ELW A118 Email: sventure@engr.uvic.ca Phone: Web Page: www.scienceventure.uvic.ca To Apply: Please submit your resume, cover letter (addressed to Lauren Telford), application form, and unofficial copy of your transcripts to the Engineering Deans Office in the Engineering Office Wing (Rm. 248) marked to the attention of SCIENCE VENTURE by 4:00pm on February 14 th Program Description Science Venture is an award-winning, university-based educational program designed to encourage youth participation in science, engineering and technology. Organized and operated by undergraduate science, engineering, and education students at UVic, Science Venture currently offers several community-based programs. They are as follows: Elementary School Workshops Two-hour, hands-on workshops for Greater Victoria elementary school students in grades 3-7. Each workshop consists of interactive demonstrations, games, building projects and activities.
Ted Banta's Science Home Page is about science, from homework assignments to science projects to discovering youwho don't know me, I teach 8th grade Mr. Banta's Mousetrap / rube goldberg. http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/King_MS/Faculty/banta/
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Jane Skinner We also teach them how to study for and write These projects (eg building a paperchair to support a a hydraulic system or a rube goldberg contraption) require http://pma-ppm.ic.gc.ca/exemplary/1996/PMA_1997/skinner.html
Extractions: Edmonton, Alberta Several years ago, Ms. Skinner and her fellow teachers at Ottewell School made it a priority to teach their students a number of the thinking skills developed by the psychologist Edward De Bono. Based on their experience, they have pared these down to about half a dozen basic techniques that they teach at logical points throughout the curriculum. Below she describes some of the learning tools and the context in which they are used at her school. The Ottewell science program packages integrate the provincial science curriculum and the thinking skills we derived from Edward De Bono. Teams from the various grade levels create and then constantly improve the packages. Our first priority in unit-planning is to make the lessons fun, relevant and easy. Consistently addressing all learning styles is also an important goal. We use a wide range of approaches (e.g. analogies, models, diagrams and activities) to make scientific concepts as concrete as possible and we follow a logical pattern of interconnected learning to attach new learning to old. For students, the primary benefit of the program is that they are involved in their own learning. We make it clear to them that they are expected to achieve their personal best. Given high standards for achievement and behaviour, they are made aware that they are responsible for and in control of both. We show students that they already know most of the science curriculum from experience in their daily lives; we are just helping them develop a greater awareness and learn some technical terms to help them communicate efficiently.
ASAP Wednesdays This class will teach basic cartooning building mousetrap cars, bridges,rube goldberg devices, and our focus to student generated science projects. http://www.seattleschools.org/schools/denny/ASAP.htm
Extractions: After School Activity Program Denny Middle School and Southwest Community Center with the support of the Families and Education Levy has an expansive After School Activities Program. All activities start at 2:30 and end at 4:00 with snacks. We are excited to offer many recreational and academic enrichment programs this year. These programs are offered at no cost to students at Denny Middle School. Bus riding students will be transported home via an after school activity bus. If you are interested in having your child participate in this program, please have them fill out an ASAP form. Students will not be allowed to participate without a permission slip on file.
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Education News Bloomfield Hills, MI rube goldberg, take a bow. take lead with musicals, books,patents and research projects. For students, a guide written to teach writing. http://www.mostlymath.com/page3-EduNews.html
Extractions: education-related news and commentary: Baltimore: Picking a college is a multiple-choice test National: Pre-K in more than one-third of schools Delaware: Spare parts let all kids join fun International: New Study Offers View of Mathematics Teaching in U.S. and High-Performing Countries ... Related Links
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Extractions: Time Warp On Science On Health On Defense ... Artcam The neon sign is an inextricable part of the urban landscape whose beginnings go back over seventy years. Once used solely to draw attention to diners, bars, theatres and the like, today examples of signage from the thirties through the sixties are exhibited in art galleries. This is an example of advertising illustration developed under a craft ethic being redefined as 'functional art.' In contrast to its use in displays, several fine artists over the last 30 years have used neon as an art medium. Larry Albright is one of these artists. His work has been shown in major exhibitions and is in permanent collections worldwide. Aside from his artistic work with plasma globes and neon sculpture, he is known for his development of the mass produced "Eye of the Storm" and "White Lightning" plasma globes developed for the consumer market and for his lighting designs for the movie industry. ( AW The following interview from The Light Artist Anthology A pioneer in the development of plasma globes, this artist is better known for his work as a specialty lighting effects designer for film directors such as Steven Speilberg and Francis Ford Coppola.
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Extractions: Room 190/192 Texts/Resources For more information visit imagine101.com Texts "The 21st Century Experience" texts are available through CopyMAX behind Westown Mall. The cost for students is $8.00. Students are required to have the text by the end of the second week. Resources Many links to additional information are available at the website (imagine101.com). Students will not have any lab fees, but minimal supplies may have to be purchased by groups for case studies. Catalog Description Engineering is the application of math, science and physics. In POE 1 you will learn about concepts common to all engineers and perform case studies as individuals and teams. Some of the case studies are as follows: the catch, Rube Goldberg machine competition, emergency/homeless shelter, career investigation, ethics studies, passive solar homes and the high mileage vehicle (HMV) prototype competition. Students will also compete in Engineering Expo, an event sponsored by the College of Engineering at UW. In all of the case studies students will consult with actual engineers and experts in the field of engineering as well as test the models they have made using a variety of instruments including computers. Field trips to universities and businesses and guest speakers will be utilized in the course. This program is recognized and receives support from the University of Wisconsin's School of Engineering.
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Extractions: window.document.form1.pagename.value = window.document.location; Mind-Stretchers Updated April 11, 2002 This is a collection of sources for games, puzzles, and contests which encourage students to think in new or different ways. Some are cooperative projects; others are for individual use. Visit TeachersFirst's Inventors' Workshop Here's a set of resources for use with upper elementary and middle school students studying inventions, the industrial revolution, or technology. We've created our own on-line industrial revolution unit (England and the U.S. - 1700-1915). In addition, there are lots of inventor and invention resources to keep your young inventors inspired. There's even an inventors quiz! This unit will open in a new browser window. For resources on inventors and inventions, click here! SETI - The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at Home - Here's a site that's a challenge just to understand! Your PC can become part of an international listening project. This site offers information, a screen-saver, and software to become a part of the project. From the scientists at U.C.'s Berkeley campus. Here Comes the Millennium All Grades - TeachersFirst's own guide to resources for and about the millennium. We've selected these to help you show students where we've been and where we're going. There are starting points for history, science, and personal experience.
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Extractions: Division C Internet Study Resources The websites below have been recommended by coaches and event supervisors. We hope you find them useful. The information found on them may not comply with the current rules. Science Olympiad has no control over the contents of these websites. Individual Events: General Resources for Coaches and Supervisors: Event Clarifications and Corrections
B Resources Measurement Estimation Activities http//www.teachnology.com rube-goldberg.com/http//www.rube-goldberg.com/html media.mit.edu/people/fredm/projects/cricket/; http://www.soinc.org/linksb.htm
Extractions: Division B Internet Study Resources The websites below have been recommended by coaches and event supervisors. We hope you find them useful. The information found on them may not comply with the current rules. Science Olympiad has no control over the contents of these websites. Individual Events: Resources for Coaches and Supervisors: Event Clarifications and Corrections
Students Write and teach and keep on doing research on Worked on education projects in Vietnam,Malaysia, and that will allow people to build rube goldberg machines (I http://www.stanford.edu/dept/SUSE/ldt/student-2001.htm
Extractions: Salvador H. Avila Interests: Technology and Development.The role of information technologies and telecommunications on International development, personal and social change, collaborative learning and creativity. Writing, definitely writing. Before LDT: B.Sc in Economics, Master's in Systems Engineering (Monterrey Institute of Technology, 1985, 1988). Consultant and public service for 13 years. Part time teacher in Strategic Planning, Systems Engineering and Economics (graduate and undergraduate). Former Director for Industrial Planning and Regional Development and Technology Coordinator of the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Published an autobiographical book. Current doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies at Stanford University School of Education and doing a coterminal Master's in Social Psychology. Internship(s): Stanford Learning Lab (Corporate Learning). Computer Coordinator at the STEP Program. Masters Project: TBA Career Plans: Direct my career towards bridging the digital divide among nations. Teach and write. Write and teach and keep on doing research on non-traditional topics. Home Page: ldt.stanford.edu/~savila
Extractions: Spring 2003 The Way They Live Now In September 1962, in the line outside the old housing office in Page House, one of my friends from my first year said that he was sleeping in the sand traps at Farmington while hunting for a room for the year. The following year, two of my friends, sharing a basement on Valley Road, joked about not having wall-to-wall floors. Their landlord had cured his basement flooding by raising the floor but leaving narrow ditches or troughs all the way around. When it rained, they stood on their island and watched the torrent flow around the room, then out through a Rube Goldberg arrangement of pipes and grates and tunnels. In 1961-62, a hundred fifty or so others and I lived in LeFevre House, right next to the cemetery. Although not posh, the McCormick Road houses were relatively new then. An outsider might have described us as exuberant. I doubted the tales about the Metcalf resident who decided he was a rooster and found a perch on a barn in Crozet only to be removed by a fire truck with a ladder, and about another who decided he was a messiah and offered to forgive Mr. Runk, who declined and sent the messiah home. Life there was loud, rich, and in the end, comforting. We formed friendships. We learned to govern ourselves. We played touch football and soft ball. We made some noise, and we sorted ourselves out.
