I attended Traveling Minnesota Virtually to Meet STEM and
Arts Standards and was excited to learn how to use video conferencing and how local
and global organizations are supporting STEM in the classroom.
Tami Moehring, MN Historical Society representative,
explained how a videoconference project gives you and your student an
opportunity to learn and interact with another school or classroom around the
world without leaving your classroom. I
found this extremely timely, since I have a student moving to Africa and the
parents want to stay linked to our STEM curriculum.
Exploring for our upcoming first grade rock and soil unit,
the Grand Canyon lesson opportunities via video conferencing support our
standards. “Do you live hundreds or
thousands of miles from Grand Canyon National Park, but wish you could bring
your class to the canyon? Why not invite a virtual ranger to your classroom?
For schools with video-conferencing equipment, we offer geology and
ecology-based educational programs via two-way conferencing over the Internet.”
(Source: http://www.nps.gov/grca/forteachers/upload/TestProgramMailout2011-2012.pdf)
Listed below are some helpful ideas and websites, which
provide students with communication and global literacy skills and teachers
with collaboration opportunities:
- Videoconference Project Book
- Grand Canyon – http://www.nps.gov/learn/distance.htm (exploring for the First Grade Rock Unit)
- International Wolf Center – http://www.wolf.org/wolves/experience/podcasts.asp (offering free sessions and materials via video conferencing)
- Center for Puppetry Arts – http://www.puppet.org/edu/distance.shtml (Literacy and Science connection)
- Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration - http://www.cilc.org/
- Minnesota Interactive Learning Collaboration - https://sites.google.com/a/mnhs.org/milc/
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