Astoria, OR LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Astoria, Oregon
Located near where the Corps of Discovery finally reached the Pacific Ocean, Rediscovery teachers have encouraged fellow teachers to go out and document the rich history and natural environment at the Columbia River’s mouth. English/soci . . . (read full article) |
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Cheyenne - Eagle Butte, SD LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Eagle Butte, South Dakota
Located near a reservation, Eagle Butte teachers actually have three “bosses”: the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the local tribes, and the district school board. Staff from all three schools were intrigued by the training opportuni . . . (read full article) |
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Council Bluffs, IA LCRPFellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Council Bluffs, Iowa
Two Rediscovery teachers (Mike Addison in History and Melissa Langston in Mathematics) have continued using GPS handheld units as the centerpiece of a geocaching project that helps students learn more about the history of their city . . . (read full article) |
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Kamiah, ID LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Kamiah, Idaho
Kamiah’s team includes an elementary, middle and high school teacher who are showing their peers that the same technology can be used by students of any age in any subject. Students are learning to use digital cameras for a promotional CD . . . (read full article) |
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Kennewick, WA LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Kennewick, Washington
Elementary teachers in this large district are now hungry for digital cameras thanks to Rediscovery training workshops. After understanding the potential of GPS units, teachers now realize it will be easier to meet the state standa . . . (read full article) |
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Lapwai, ID LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Lapwai, Idaho
Lying in the heart of Nez Perce Indian country, Rediscovery teachers use the rich culture of the area as a central theme in technology-based units. Middle school teacher Tami Church created a webquest on Native American engineering that as . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston, ID LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Lewiston, Idaho
Rediscovery teachers have been the catalyst for district-wide faculty development in technology. In school year 2002-03, training focused on Palm Pilot applications, Internet research, writing in the content areas, using Front Page for w . . . (read full article) |
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Lower-Brule, SD LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Lower Brule, South Dakota
Similar to Lapwai, Rediscovery teachers in Lower Brule work with students from Dakota and Lakota Indian reservations. A third grade teacher uses technology to help students create animal and plant books that introduce both nati . . . (read full article) |
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Montana LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Montana
Rediscovery teachers in six schools in the Golden Triangle Curriculum Consortium of north central Montana have trained dozens of teachers to use the same technology resources found in much bigger cities and schools around the nation. Students in . . . (read full article) |
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Moscow, ID LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Moscow, Idaho
All three Rediscovery teachers in Moscow are in elementary schools where technology infusion is beginning to spread districtwide. The entire staff at Russell Elementary is committed to working in collaborative teams and creating standards- . . . (read full article) |
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Orofino, ID LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Orofino, Idaho
Rediscovery teachers used some of their project funds for mini-grants to fellow teachers. In one case, these funds attracted a grant from the Clearwater Education Foundation so students could take their cameras on a forestry tour of the r . . . (read full article) |
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Portland, OR LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Portland, Oregon
Rediscovery teachers are all based at Tubman Middle School located in the heart of Portland’s inner city. Moving beyond their own faculty, the team has now reached a total of 193 teachers and aides in the district. Workshops focus on ho . . . (read full article) |
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Potlatch, ID LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Potlatch, Idaho
Chemistry teacher Ken Beidler takes about ten field trips to the nearby Palouse River where students use Vernier probeware, graphing calculator and other instruments to monitor and analyze water quality data. However, just like real-worl . . . (read full article) |
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St. Charles, MO LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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St. Charles, Missouri
Living near where the Expedition officially launched in May 1804, these Francis Howell School District teachers have had to convince fellow staff they can overcome money obstacles with the same spirit Lewis & Clark did when they co . . . (read full article) |
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Summer 2003: LCRP Fellows present in Washington, D.C.
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Lewis & Clark Rediscovery Teams Report
to Congress and the Executive Branch
In a manner similar to that of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 200 years ago, teams of educators presented examples of how to boost student achievement at a congressional l . . . (read full article) |
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Wheeling, WV LCRP Fellows spread enthusiasm to colleagues
Posted: 3/10/2004
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Marshall County, West Virginia
Teachers at the elementary, middle and high school level in this large county are following the example of Rediscovery teachers using tools like these: graphing calculator-based laboratories; cameras and probes on Palm Pil . . . (read full article) |
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Branting Publishes New Article
Posted: 12/19/2003
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The editors of "Idaho Magazine" have slated publication of Steven Branting's latest article "Matching the Past With Reality" in the March 2004 issue.
The 3000-word feature article will discuss the three-year project that Branting and his students have b . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston Highlighted at Idaho Capital Meeting
Posted: 12/19/2003
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The 2004 Digital Government Day on 9 February will feature a day-long presentation on historical research and fieldwork done my Lewiston's GIS team. The meeting will be held at the Capitol Rotunda. . . . (read full article) |
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Get ready to experience life in 1805
Posted: 12/18/2003
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In October, citizens of the Tri-Cities were able to take a step back in time and learn about the sights, sounds, and scents representative of the days when Lewis and Clark and their party were making their way West and into history books.
The Tri-Citie . . . (read full article) |
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New Features/Capabilities of the Rediscovery Website
Posted: 12/18/2003
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The Rediscovery Project website (this site) has been significantly expanded to include information on a variety of new program components, ongoing activities and additional resources.
Following is an overview of the new features and content.
Under . . . (read full article) |
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New links in Rediscovery Project website: Consortium Schools
Posted: 12/18/2003
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New infoormation to appear under "Consortium Schools" links. As we begin down the home -stretch for this project, we are putting all our best work forward and "public". This includes updating and adding to our Consortium Schools "Portal" pages.
For each . . . (read full article) |
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A New Webpage for Astoria
Posted: 12/11/2003
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In November, Astoria introduced a New Webpage format that allows each teacher and specialist to have their own Webpage and to upload to those pages. www.astoriaschools.org Our Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Team assisted in the initial introduction and train . . . (read full article) |
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Spring 2004 course offerings
Posted: 12/6/2003
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EDTE 504: 80 (2-3 credits), Community Portfolios
200 years of change in local communities, documented, through imagery, narrative, multimedia in interactive webpage builders.
- note: a 505# is available so teachers can pay the less expensive in-service . . . (read full article) |
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Eagle Butte Spins Webs
Posted: 7/10/2003
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Summer training involved 15 staff. The training this time was on web page 2002. This was exciting for all those involved with the process. . . . (read full article) |
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What's wrong with this picture?
Posted: 7/10/2003
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What's wrong with this picture? 2 centuries after Lewis and Clark , the Chinooks fight for a future denied . . . (read full article) |
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What's wrong with this picture?
Posted: 7/10/2003
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What's wrong with this picture? 2 centuries after Lewis and Clark , the Chinooks fight for a future denied . . . (read full article) |
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In Innovation Odyssey
Posted: 5/30/2003
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To view an article on water quality monitoring by Astoria High School's Accelerated Biology class visit Intel's Innovation in Education website at
http://www97.intel.com/education/odyssey/day 289/day 289.htm
The May 2003 edition outlines day 289 of t . . . (read full article) |
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New Lewiston Website Active
Posted: 4/7/2003
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The Lewiston porfolio has been redesigned and posted, with editing ongoing as we adapt to Front Page as a construction application. . . . (read full article) |
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New Webquest Posted
Posted: 4/7/2003
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A new webquest focusing on the cultural relevance of pyramid structures has been posted and is in the construction phase. Projected completion is slated for 15 February 2003.
The webquest has a mathematical parallel with triangles and polyhedra studies . . . (read full article) |
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Webquest Construction link site
Posted: 4/7/2003
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This page was designed for use by participating teachers to acquire software, templates and tutorials for the Spring 2003 workshop. . . . (read full article) |
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William Clark Webquest Now Ready
Posted: 4/7/2003
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This webquest has more than 20 activities centering on skills that William Clark demonstrated as a cartographer.
Students can access pdf files for recording data. Extended learning activities are included for cluster groups of students. . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston GIS To Be Featured
Posted: 2/24/2003
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The special studies of the GIS students at Lewiston's Jenifer Junior High School will be featured in an upcoming issue of Norhwest Education, a publication of the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory in Portland OR.
The magazine will be sending a wri . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston Completes Fall Workshop
Posted: 2/20/2003
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This is a final update of the message posted previously.
The Lewiston Team (minus Fish, who was tramping around Nepal) focused its attention on digital data management for its fall workshop.
1. Twenty (20) district secondary teachers (from 4 campuses . . . (read full article) |
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"Fermi Problem" webquest
Posted: 1/29/2003
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Historical research is not an easy process. Solutions do not appear with the precision of math algorithms. To help students to appreciate how solutions can be constructed from little information, the website shown below was constructed around the work of . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston Students Featured in Article
Posted: 1/28/2003
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The Winter 2003 issue of "ArcNews," the quarterly published by ESRI (software developers of ArcView), features a discussion of the work done in Lewiston ID to use GIS to answer historical questions about the Normal Hill Cemetery. [See the article posted h . . . (read full article) |
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Multi-disciplinary Webquest
Posted: 1/27/2003
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Lewiston's spring workshop on webquest design will feature instruction on how to develop multi-disciplinary activities that allow for the widest possible student interaction.
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ArcView 3 for Teachers
Posted: 1/23/2003
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The cost of purchasing ArcView 3.2 may at first seem daunting. However, a terrific solution is available for teams wishing to pursue the teaching of ArcView GIS this spring or summer.
The text "Mapping Our World: GIS Lessons for Educators" is a wonderf . . . (read full article) |
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New Webquest for Social Studies
Posted: 1/23/2003
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Student are fascinated by stories of people who get lost. Our literature is replete with many examples. Motion pictures create virtual worlds in which the hero achieves a great quest.
The webquest attached below is constructed around the premise of kn . . . (read full article) |
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Another School District Project
Posted: 1/15/2003
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The concepts of effective leadership are going to be explored in very great detail over the course of the Corps of Discovery bicentennial events. However, all communities have had leaders, not the least of which are the men and women who have led our scho . . . (read full article) |
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Developing School District Histories
Posted: 1/9/2003
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The LCRP emphasis on "200 years of change" has no better exemplar than our public school systems. The classroom of 2003 is vastly different from that of the first day the schools opened in most communities. The Lewiston district is the oldest in the stat . . . (read full article) |
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Tiered Activities Using Technology
Posted: 12/17/2002
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Providing enrichment in social studies using technology is a challenge, especially when highly able students are considered.
The attached lesson set is based on the concepts of (a) tiered activities that tap a wide variety of complexity levels and inter . . . (read full article) |
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Complete Sextant Teaching Unit Now Available
Posted: 12/13/2002
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A classroom teaching guide to marine sextants is now available from Steven Branting. The unit includes (among other items):
1. latitude calculation
2. longitude calculation
3. a celestial ephemeris
4. construction activities for astrolabes
5. use o . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston Students to Map Residential Development
Posted: 12/13/2002
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The early residential areas of Normal Hill (Lewiston ID) were platted and developed soon after 1900, when water and electricity were supplied to the area. The Queen Anne Residential Survey will catalogue the position of all homes constructed from 1880-191 . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston Announces Spring Workshop Curriculum
Posted: 12/12/2002
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The Lewiston team (Cheryl Flory, Shelley Potter, John Fisher and Steven Branting) has announced its preliminary proposal for the Spring 2003 Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Project workshop.
Focusing its attention on social studies teachers in grades 4-12, . . . (read full article) |
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Medal of Honor Photographs Requested
Posted: 12/11/2002
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The website "Hall of Heroes" (link provided below) is requesting photographs of Medal of Honor winners. Their site is sorted by state for easy access to records.
This is an excellent project for students to search newspaper records or contact remaining . . . (read full article) |
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Astoria completes fall workshop
Posted: 12/6/2002
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Over a two-day period, Astoria held their workshop. Friday’s session began at 5:00 pm. Facilitators gave copies of Photoshop Elements, Inspiration, and VRWorx to the participants. Micheal Baker presented a section on digital Photography. Colleen Keenan pre . . . (read full article) |
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Normal Hill Cemetery Project Moves to Next Stage
Posted: 11/26/2002
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The Normal Hill Cemetery Project (Lewiston ID) has made preliminary plans to run a ground penetrating radar survey over the site of a mass grave from the period 1888-1890. Metal surveys have been completed.
Working with officials from the United States . . . (read full article) |
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Utilizing the Palm 130 in Field Studies
Posted: 11/26/2002
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The Palm 130 has become a popular technology item among LCRP participants. My thanks to Jan Madden for taking the first plunge with the item.
Please find below a sample lesson plan for creating in and using the spreadsheet function (Sheets to Go) as a . . . (read full article) |
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International GIS Day Features LCRP Program
Posted: 11/22/2002
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Steven Branting (Lewiston) spoke at the 2002 International GIS Day symposium at the University of Idaho on 20 November.
His presentation centered on three (3) key projects that have been featured internationally: (1) The Normal Hill Cemetery Reinterral . . . (read full article) |
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Lewiston Team Speaks in South Dakota
Posted: 11/22/2002
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The Lewiston GIS team of Steven and Shann Branting, Ian Coleman and Nate Ebel traveled to Rapid City SD to speak to the EDPARC division of the Upper Midwest Aeropsace Consortium.
Joined by other school districts from North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, . . . (read full article) |
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Using Photoshop Elements 2 to Create Web Pages
Posted: 11/22/2002
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Elements 2 can be used with Front Page to create very effective websites.
See the lesson plan below. See photo of lesson's author above. . . . (read full article) |
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News from DC: Our Interim Review with US Department of Education TICG
Posted: 11/8/2002
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The Rediscovery Project Reviewed in Washington D.C.
As one of TICG (Technology Innovation Challenge Grants) projects reaching the mid-point of their five-year grant period, the Lewis and Rediscovery Project was reviewed by a panel of six national expert . . . (read full article) |
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Rediscovery in Montana
Posted: 7/1/2002
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Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Project Summer Workshop in Great Falls
You are invited to a photo opportunity on Thursday July 11, 2002 at the Best Western Heritage Inn (1700 Fox Farm Rd) 7:00PM-9:00PM.
The Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Project, a sev . . . (read full article) |
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Golden Triangle Schools on National Teacher Training Telecast
Posted: 5/7/2002
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Four north central Montana schools that are part of the Golden Triangle Curriculum Consortium were selected as models for helping students achieve academic outcomes thanks to digital tools and Internet access, Utterback Middle School - Conrad Public School . . . (read full article) |
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Elementary Students Chase Lewis & Clark with Palm™ Handhelds
Posted: 4/19/2002
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A great article appearing on the www.palm.com website, featuring the wonderful work of Jan Madden and her Corp of Rediscovery students.
Elementary Students Chase Lewis & Clark with Palm™ Handhelds
Two hundred years ago, Lewis and Clark embarked on an . . . (read full article) |
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Golden Triangle Dissemination Workshop
Posted: 2/15/2002
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GTCC E-News February 4, 2002
Lewis and Clark Rediscovery Technology Workshop!
Twenty teachers from GTCC member districts spent Friday and Saturday at the Heritage Inn in Great Falls learning technology at the first offering of the Lewis and Clark . . . (read full article) |
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