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Star School Voyage
Imagine
taking a school of 1,100 students, kindergarten through eighth
grade, on an ocean voyage. Scary thought? No, not really - if you
use the Internet! |
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Students placed symbols
indicating the ship's position on a large world map.
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"Students at the Midtown Community
School (MCS) in Bayonne, New Jersey, participated in an innovative
Internet-based science and mathematics project during February and March
1998 using the Internet as an active teaching tool."
- Science and Children,
National Science Teacher Association (October 1998, Vol. 36, Number 2) |
Students in grades four through
seven worked in cooperative groups to track the ship on a daily basis. |
"The cargo ship set sail
from Port Newark, New Jersey, as the students looked on. The teachers
kept the final destination a secret, as well as any ports of call along the
way, so the students could analyze the data and make their own
predictions."
- Science and Children,
National Science Teacher Association (October 1998, Vol. 36, Number 2) |
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Students worked in groups to
gather data and communicate with their peers in other countries.
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"The students in Nova
Scotia became e-mail buddies with our students, discussing the project,
their hometown, and other information about them."
"The enthusiasm of the
students and staff far exceeded our expectations. The critical
thinking [skills] of the students allowed them to extrapolate and predict
events beyond the realm of pencil-and-paper tasks. Their analysis
of the data was so accurate they were able to predict the ship's
destinations based on their research and data interpretation."
- Science and Children,
National Science Teacher Association (October 1998, Vol. 36, Number 2) |
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The
Star School Voyage Web Site |
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