Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Goals

The "Lewis & Clark Re-Discovery Project" is a technology professional development proposal designed to help teachers restructure teaching and learning practices in the classroom and to foster technology use in the schools. The program includes summer workshops for teachers, in-service workshops during the school year, and support of a local based curriculum project.

Highlighting the Lewis and Clark exploration 200 years ago, the project will focus on select K-12 districts distributed over 9 states along the Lewis-Clark trail. The program will directly involve a group of 3 teachers from each district in a series of two-week summer workshops. These teachers will become Lewis & Clark resource faculty and program facilitators in their local districts. They will design and carry out their own local curricula projects.

The NOVA change model, which imbeds technology change within pedagogic appropriate course structures, and emphasizes development of local programs of excellence, will be used and evaluated as a technology infusion model.

In years 4 and 5 the program will expand to include teachers and students in the over 6,500 schools in the national GLOBE program and the program components made publicly available. A series of student-centered interactive web-delivered graduate level courses, available for college credit, will be developed in collaboration with the consortium teachers and made available to all teachers in the consortium districts. These courses, will be packaged in units of 1 -3 credit modules to allow for busy in-service teachers to participate in the unit. A 2 credit "how to" course in the use of technology will also be available. An extensive interactive "backbone" CD_ROM and interactive web site, including a Lewis & Clark virtual tour, will be developed. Both will link to interactive activities designed by the teachers.

Anticipated outgrowths include locally developed curricula, CDs and web sites that present the children's and teacher's work. All the materials will emphasize and be examples of the National Standards for K-12. The programs will focus on change over the past 200 years and has science, social/cultural, environmental, and historical components.

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