Lewis & Clark Rediscovery Project

Past Workshops

A note from Workshop Planning Group, and Schedule Details for Summer Workshop.

Hello Rediscovery Fellows,

We are looking forward to seeing you, hearing about your activities, and going to the Lewis and Clark related sites and events in St. Louis. The draft schedule for our meeting in St. Louis this summer has been emailed to you and is now on the Rediscovery site/Activities (check periodically for updates). We have replaced an opening reception with a closing ceremony (Friday); this frees up Sunday for a full-day exploration of St. Louis or attendance at the baseball game.

You will see on the schedule that the mornings have sessions scheduled at the hotel with field trips in the afternoon. Instead of a large project this year, you will be responsible for Documenting a Field Trip with one of four multi-grade level, interdisciplinary teams. The specific assignment will be for each team to collect images and interviews from one field trip (only one!) and posting to MyEDesk by 10:30am the next day for everyone else to review. This will provide an opportunity to work with other Rediscovery fellows not on your core team, to reflect on the significance of each site we visit, and to create a resource of images and lesson ideas about the St. Louis area. Team assignments will come later.

During the Breakout Sessions (scheduled every day from 10:00-10:45am), you will teach others or be taught tools, skills, techniques, or content by your colleagues or by any of the facilitators. This is the perfect time to offer a workshop you have already offered, or to try out a new one. We’ll have sign-ups for this closer to the conference. At the Roundtables (scheduled Wednesday, Thursday, and possibly Friday from 10:45-12:15), you will talk about what you did during the year and show the results. Before arriving in St. Louis, prepare this PPT about the results of the activities you did for your funding this year and post it to MyEDesk. Also, gather materials that students and teachers created or used as a result of your efforts. These will be spread out on the table and used in a ten-minute talk that you will deliver several times to your colleagues (this replaces the triboard).

More detail on the schedule is given below by day.

Looking forward to seeing you there,

The facilitators and the Francis Howell team

Detail Schedule: (Word.doc)

Monday July 12th 2004
8:30 - 10:00am	Welcome Overview	Hear about St. Louis, the expectations for the week, and what you can expect next year. General Session Room (TBA)
10:00-10:45	Tech help/Lesson ideas that affect student outcomes	Breakout Sessions will be tech help, tech tool sharing and lesson ideas. Facilitators and fellows will offer sessions to troubleshoot, answer questions, present new or interesting ideas. These are how-to teaching sessions. Roundtables are where your team will share what you have done in the last year. Please emphasize the effect of your activities on students’ growth in the standards through test results, attitude changes, and products that demonstrate knowledge change. These sessions will be in the 2 Breakout Rooms (TBA)
10:45-12:15	MyEDesk	MyEDesk – one of the priorities for Year 6 proposals. This session will describe the Idaho version and prepare you to use it this week to post ideas. For districts that are purchasing MyEDesk server software, separate courses will be offered in the districts. (Rooms TBA)
12:15-1:30	Hotel Lunch Speaker: Peter Kastor	Dr. Peter Kastor, a local historian and professor, will talk about Lewis and Clark in St. Louis. (This meal is not included in your per diem.)
1:30--6:30 Field Trips	Naturalist Journaling Arch	The afternoon will begin with a session on doing a Naturalist Journal, led by the Missouri Historical Society at the hotel. Afterwards, we will go as a group to the Arch – we will walk efficiently to the Arch, go through security, and start ca. 3:30 with the Arch Museum exhibit, followed by the IMAX movie at 4:30 and the tram ride at 5:30. National Park Service education personnel will be stationed at the museum exhibit for informal discussions; tickets will be provided. Multi-grade-level, multi-disciplinary Team One will begin today to take pictures, collect video and/or audio, develop lesson ideas and post them to MyEDesk any time before 10:30 am Tuesday (you may also use the breakout session time to post). See your check-in packet for more information and assignments.
	Dinner on your own	Dinner on your own – within walking distance; we’ll supply some suggestions before July. Or jump in your car and visit some of the optional activities/side trips. (Pay for this out of your per diem.)
Tuesday July 13th 2004
8:30-10:00am	GIS lessons Forest Fire	Studying Forest Fires using geo-spatial data - see a module created by Kathryn, Bob K and a team of Rediscovery fellows, experience the tutorials on how to help students make decisions based on data, and discuss how to create a module like this. (General Session Room TBA)
10:00-10:45	Breakout Sessions	Breakout Sessions – more offerings by you, your colleagues and the facilitators – lessons ideas that affect student outcomes, or tech help Review Field Trip-Team One ARCH upload, with their unique images and activities. (Breakout rooms TBA)
10:45-12:15	Many Voices/ Many Stories Reports	Many Voices/Many Stories Teams will be asked to present what they have posted – lessons, student products, and reflections by the teachers who used it. Discuss how to sustain Many Voices in your next year. (General Session Room TBA)
12:15-6:00 Field Trip	Clark’s Grave Lunch Boathouse ESRI Daniel Boone House	Swing by the cemetery and Clark’s grave on your way to St. Charles (we may have a guide for this stop). Lunch will be on your own (pay for this out of your per diem). Wind your way west and tour historic St. Charles, take in the Lewis and Clark Boathouse and Nature Center, perhaps ESRI, and then the Daniel Boone House and village, further south near Defiance (about twenty minutes away). This day is more or less at your leisure. However, Team Two will be documenting up a storm at these fascinating sites.
6:00-9:00	Dinner at Magpie’s with speaker Dan Brown	Michelle Dawson says the food at Magpie’s is to “die for” – enough recommendation for us all! Dan Brown has a reputation of being incredibly engaging; Michelle notes that his book on the history of the school district “reads like a collection of short stories,” and includes chapters on Lewis and Clark, Daniel Boone, and much more. He works with school students, parents, and teachers and should have some interesting ideas about how to study and present change over time. (This dinner is not included in your per diem.)
Wednesday July 14th 2004
8:30-10:00am	Sustainability and the Art of Writing Proposals	In this session, you will use a boilerplate as a starting point for writing a grant to sustain some of the efforts in your district. (General Session Room TBA)
10:00-10:45	Breakout Sessions	Breakout Sessions – more offerings by you, your colleagues and the facilitators -- lesson ideas that affect student outcomes, or tech help Review Field Trip-Team Two upload from the ST. CHARLES events and sites (Breakout Rooms TBA)
10:45-12:15	District Roundtables	First day of Roundtable presentations. Bring your products -- PowerPoint and materials -- to spread out on a table. Half of the teams will present and half will circulate on a schedule, ten minutes per table. (The other half presents tomorrow; the schedule will be assigned closer to the conference; breakout rooms TBA)
12:15-5:00 Field Trip	Hotel Picnic at Cahokia Mounds State Park Camp River Dubois	The hotel will provide a box lunch to eat in the car or at Cahokia Mounds State Historical Park. This massive Native American community thrived for many centuries with trade from the Missouri River Basin tribes. The grounds are expansive, complete with six-story mounds, a calendar, and a wonderful visitor center. Enjoy the movie and life size dioramas, and any or all of the three trails (ca. 45-minute walks). For the hale and hearty, there is also a six-mile nature trail that explores the archaeology and environment of these unique Native Americans whose culture greeted Lewis and Clark. On the way back to St. Louis, go north a bit toward Edwardsville and visit the visitor center at Camp River Dubois. Walk out on the deck to see where the Missouri flows into the Mississippi. Field Trip Team Three will be furiously documenting!
	Dinner with your team	Consider dinner on “the Hill” for fun Italian dining at a reasonable price (pay for this out of your per diem).
Thursday July 15th 2004
8:30-10:00am	Team Sustainability Planning for Year 6	Team convenes for Year 6 sustainability planning and/or proposal writing. Dale Gentry will be available to answer questions about the format and content of the Request for Proposals (RFP). Your team facilitator will be available to work with you in developing your Year 6 plans and/or proposal. Unlike past years, proposals will be competitive; your team/district may submit more than one proposal. Funding for a facilitator will have to be written into any proposal and funded by your grant -- not by LCRP separately. (General Session Room TBA
10:00-10:45	Breakout sessions	Breakout Sessions – more offerings by you, your colleagues and the facilitators -- lesson ideas that affect student outcomes, or tech help Review Field Trip-Team Three upload from the CAHOKIA MOUNDS AND CAMP RIVER DUBOIS events and sites. (Breakout Rooms TBA)
10:45-12:15	District Roundtables	Day two of Roundtable presentations. Have your products -- PowerPoint and materials – ready to spread out on a table. The second half of the teams will present and yesterday’s presenters will relax and circulate on a schedule, ten minutes per table. (Breakout rooms TBA)
12:15-6:00 Field Trip	Lunch at the Art Museum in Forest Park Missouri State Historical Society and Museum	West of the hotel, but by easy Metro access, is the chockfull, stunning Forest Park. We plan to have lunch (from your per diem) and an orientation at the Art Museum about its extensive holdings and in particular the special Osage Exhibit. After art, how about history? We have tickets for our group beginning at 3:00 at the History Museum. The tours are staggered, but there is a free World’s Fair exhibit to wander through while you wait your turn. The History Museum is very informative about the Louisiana Purchase, the development of St. Louis as a gateway to the West, and the Lewis and Clark Touring Exhibit will not have gone on tour yet. There are enactments, audio portions of the exhibit, and the ticket lady says to plan at least two hours because it is just wonderful.
	On your own	When you are back downtown, don’t miss the blues. You’ll find a whole street full of music near the hotel, and we will provide more information as the time draws closer.
Friday July 16th 2004
8:30-10:00am	Team Sustainability Planning for Year 6	Team convenes again for Year 6 sustainability planning and/or proposal writing. This day will provide extra time to really nail down the details of sustainability. Dale and your team facilitator will be available. (General Session Room TBA)
10:00-10:45	Breakout Sessions	Review Field Trip-Team Four upload from the MUSEUMS the day before. Upload field trip log and lesson ideas. (Breakout rooms TBA)
10:45-12:15		A mop-up time frame to tie in all the loose ends, get more help, share more ideas, work further on any plans or proposals. (Breakout rooms TBA)
12:15-1:30	Hotel Lunch with speaker	Enjoy a final hotel lunch (not included in your per diem) and get an idea of where we go from here? We are inviting a speaker to offer insight into new avenues for exploration that build on where we have been and are now. (Room TBA)
1:30 - 3:30	Riverboat Tour	Your chance to ply the Mississippi and take pictures and video of the waterfront, make comparisons with the St. Louis of 1804, or just sit back. Optional, but we will purchase tickets for you if you wish to go; the cost to you will be $10.00.
4:00-7:00	Closing Ceremony	To celebrate our work, adventures, and accomplishments, a riotous good time will begin at 4:00! A closing ceremony you won’t want to miss -- with surprises, side shows, heavy hors d’oeuvres, and more! (General Session Room TBA)
	Dessert? at Ted Drews on Rt. 66	If you have room, head out to Ted Drews for their famous custard.

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