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2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Summer Packet #4 • Theme: 4th Of July - U.S.A., Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Jessica Spencer, Samantha Stuefer, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This packet gives some information on the Fourth of July, or Independence Day. This is a holiday celebrated in the United States where you will hear and see a lot of fireworks. You will also see a lot of families celebrating by wearing red, white and blue, hanging up the American Flag and maybe even having a party with their family. Please know that this packet is to help you understand why the holiday is celebrated and we do not expect you to celebrate or enjoy the holiday. For math you will continue to work on measuring and telling time. …

2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2. Summer Packet #3 • Theme: Community, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Jessica Spencer, Samantha Stuefer, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This packet theme is Community. You will be working on water conservation, clouds and storm safety. There will be activities provided to help you know how to save water and stay safe during a storm. The math part of the activities will focus on know how to measure objects and liquids. It will also have a short activity on telling time on an analog clock. Please remember this packet is to continue to support learning. This is not a tool for frustration. Please have fun while working on the activities!

Este paquete es sobre la comunidad. Los estudiantes trabajarán sobre …

2nd-3rd Grades, Level 1-2: Summer Packet #2, Theme: Differences, Tianna Bankhead, Molly Heeren, Jessica Spencer, Samantha Stuefer, Alexa Yunes-Koch

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 1-2 of English Proficiency (K-5)

This packet will focus on the importance of differences. We are all different and it is okay to be different from one another, it is what makes us strong and unique. This packet will also review shapes and measuring in math. It also reviews the water cycle in science. Have as much fun with this packet as you can!

Este paquete se centrará en la importancia de las diferencias. Todos somos diferentes y está bien serlo los unos de los otros, es lo que nos hace fuertes y únicos. Este paquete repasará las formas y las medidas en matemáticas, además, …

6th–8th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Vietnam, Ronnie Grace, Tricia Gray, Kara Mitchell Viesca, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Traveling to Vietnam!, Vocabulary you need to know, Where in the world are we?, Vietnam's flag, Pack your suitcase!, What do you know? What do you want to learn?

Day 2 • Vocabulary review, The life cycle of a rice at a rice paddy, Math review

Day 3 • Math review, Let's play pickleball!, Lanterns in Vietnam!

Day 4 • Vocab review, Halong Bay, Instagram post!, How pearls are made, Pearl questions

Day 5 • Vocab review, Vietnam reflection, Time to move!, Goodbye, Vietnam!

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9th–10th Grade: English Level 2, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Finding Your Voice, Morgan Spanel, Aaron P. Johnson, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 2 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Finding your voice, week 2: defending your opinion, Who do you think is the better basketball player?, Identifying compare and contrast language, Practicing compare & contrast words and phrases

Day 2 • Pro & con language, Is your pet really your best friend?

Day 3 • Pet ownership, The science behind decision making and preferences, What's in YOUR brain?

Day 4 • Pro & con language, Measuring circles

Day 5 • Standing up for what you believe, Journal: write your opinion on your chose issue

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2nd-3rd Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Careers, Samantha Monter, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

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My Plan for the Week

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My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Vocabulary - Dictionary of Career Words - Vocabulary Sentences

Reading - Mini-book about Healthcare Workers - All About Teachers - Read the Interview - Meet the Assistant Principal

Writing/Grammar - Compare a Doctor and Dentist - The Verbs of Careers - Find the Verbs - …

2nd-3rd Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Ocean, Samantha Monter, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

My Plan for the Week

Choose activities from the different content areas to complete each day. You can choose one or two activities from different areas to do during the day. Below is a list of the activities in each content area.

Reading/Writing - Map of the World - All about Oceans - Map it - All about Clownfish - Jellyfish - Sea Turtles - If I was an oceanographer writing prompt

Vocabulary - Dictionary - Vocabulary Matching - Vocabulary Sentences

Math - Crack the Code - Read and Write

Brain Break - Create a Sea turtle - Roll a …

4th-5th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #3 • Theme: Ocean, Nicole M. Ponti, Claudia T. Yunes, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

These packets are self-contained. Everything a child will need to be successful with the activities is provided in the packet. Students will only need a writing utensil. Additional tools like crayons or scissors can be used, but do not have to be.

My Buddy, Choose a Buddy

Vocabulary

World's Oceans

Creating an Ocean test

Reading a Compass Rose

Using a Compass Rose

Welcome to My Home!

Lines of Longitude and Latitude

Coordinate Plane Review

Color Your Treasure

Writing a Poem: Acrostic

Writing a Letter

Let's Move Math!

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6th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Ancient Egypt, Amanda Mclaughlin, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

You will travel back in time to the land of Ancient Egypt! The ancient Egyptians had many discoveries that changed the way civilizations lived. You will learn about the fascinating lives of Egyptians, such as pharaohs, pyramids, and mummies!

Thinking Skills Glossary - Level 3 English

Day 1 • Ancient Egypt vocabulary, Ancient Egypt: Life along the Nile, Comprehension questions, Ancient Egypt map labeling, Intro to decimals

Day 2 • Treasures of the pyramids, Who killed King Tut?, Roll a decimal

Day 3 • Primary source: Ancient Egyptian paintings, Hieroglyphics, Comparing decimals, Decimal war

Day 4 • Ancient Egypt: Making …

11th–12th Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #5 • Theme: Games, Katie Loughrist, Lauren Gatti, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Lesson 1 • Video game addiction by Dr. Douglas Gentile & Shawn Green

Lesson 2 • Time to play! You're never too old to have fun!

Lesson 3 • Sudoku fever! Try the puzzle with worldwide appeal

Lesson 4 • Vocabulary crossword, Vocabulary crossword clues!

Lesson 5 • Reflection: it's not all fun and games

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K–1st Grade: English Level 3, Learning Packet #2 • Theme: Careers, Vickie Neilly, Tricia Gray, Alexa Yunes

ICMEE Learning Packets: Level 3 of English Proficiency (K-12)

Day 1 • Vocabulary, Days of the week, Label the worker: teacher, Let's move!, Math word problems

Day 2 • Learn about careers!, Label the worker, Mix it fix it, Window or walk

Day 3 • Career matching, One or more than one?, Which worker?, Label the worker: plumber

Day 4 • Roll a career, One or more than one?, Career subtraction, Let's draw

Day 5 • My Journal, Would you rather?, Let's create, Make a list, Dictionary

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Lost & Found: New Harvest, Owen Gottlieb, Ian Schreiber

Presentations and other scholarship

Lost & Found is a strategy card-to-mobile game series that teaches medieval religious legal systems with attention to period accuracy and cultural and historical context.

Set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the 12th century, a great crossroads of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. The Lost & Found games project seeks to expand the discourse around religious legal systems, to enrich public conversations in a variety of communities, and to promote greater understanding of the religious traditions that build the fabric of the United States. Comparative religious literacy can build bridges between and within communities and prepare learners to be responsible citizens …

An Integrated Framework Based On Latent Variational Autoencoder For Providing Early Warning Of At-Risk Students, Xu Du, Juan Yang, Jui-Long Hung

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

The rapid development of learning technologies has enabled online learning paradigm to gain great popularity in both high education and K-12, which makes the prediction of student performance become one of the most popular research topics in education. However, the traditional prediction algorithms are originally designed for balanced dataset, while the educational dataset typically belongs to highly imbalanced dataset, which makes it more difficult to accurately identify the at-risk students. In order to solve this dilemma, this study proposes an integrated framework (LVAEPre) based on latent variational autoencoder (LVAE) with deep neural network (DNN) to alleviate the imbalanced distribution of …

Using Technology To Support Student Learning In An Integrated Stem Learning Environment, Dazhi Yang, Sally J. Baldwin

Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper provides the first review and illustration of technology-use strategies for supporting student learning in different integrated science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning environments. An integrated STEM learning environment may focus on integrating and learning science and mathematics or integrating and learning engineering and technology simultaneously for multiple levels of learners. An integrated STEM learning environment breaks down disciplinary boundaries and allows students to apply multidisciplinary knowledge in solving problems. This study illustrates four technology-use strategies to support student learning in an integrated STEM learning environment: a) providing authentic learning contexts, b) offering web-based inquiry environments, c) expanding …

Phase Ii Spacescape Mobile Game For Learning Space Science 2020 Report, Sa Liu, Mina Gabriel, Brian Grey

Harrisburg University Presidential Research Grants

This project is the phase II of the awarded 2019 Presidential Research Grant Project SpacEscape (PRG 2020-07; https://www.harrisburgu.edu/spacescape/). By working with teachers and students from Mechanicsburg School District, Susquehanna Township Middle school, Crossroads Middle School, and Pequea Valley High school, the research team published the mobile science learning game SpacEscape to Google Play Store, introduced the game to more than 1,000 middle school students even during the pandemic, collected more data to understand how learner conduct problem-solving using mobile games, and presented the research at the Games for Change 2020 Virtual Conference to more than 500 attendees. In this report, …

Public Librarians' Adoption Of Technology In Two Southeastern States, Ashley Ea Dowdy

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Public libraries have become community hubs of technology, changing the responsibilities of public librarians. The problem is a gap between public library technology needs, the skills librarians have with technologies, and the strategies they use to acquire skills. The purpose of this predictive, sequential, explanatory mixed method study was to examine public librarians' attitudes about learning new technology and their behavioral intention to adopt it. Two frameworks guided this study: the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology model and the diffusion of innovations theory. Quantitative data (N= 202) were collected by survey and analyzed through multiple linear regression …

Effect Of Chemoscan Creation On High School Students' Attitudes Toward Science, Deborah Mcpherson Ezell

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Whether the activity of creating digital art influences high school students' attitudes toward science is unknown. The purpose of this study was to determine if the creation of artistic digital chemoscans by high school students influences their attitudes toward science. In this study, ninth grade high school students' attitudes toward science were examined after participating in the creation of chemoscans in their science classroom. The theory of affective domain helped explain the process that leads to a person's behavior toward a certain phenomenon in the educational setting. The research questions concerned the use of chemoscan creation in the physical science …

Improving Motivation In Arabic Language Arts Classrooms Through Technology Integration, Rima Chamout

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Many Lebanese teachers struggle to make the Arabic language enjoyable for their students to learn, therefore many Lebanese children use either French or English in their daily lives. Students' dislike of Arabic affects the way they relate to their society, which causes problems of belonging and identity—an important issue in Lebanese society. The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand how technology can motivate teachers' creativity in their teaching practices and explore student perceptions of learning the Arabic language with the support of technology. Rogers's diffusion of innovation theory and Dörnyei's L2 motivational self-system were used to understand how …

Teachers' Perceptions Of A One-To-One Teacher Laptop Program And Teacher Technology Efficacy, Johnson Kulangara Jacob

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

Schools all over the world are embracing technology because they view technology as a catalyst to improve teaching and learning, leading to further investment in technology initiatives for school improvement. The 1:1 teacher laptop program is one such initiative that continues to gain interest and momentum. Despite widespread adoption, teachers continue to face challenges with the use of technology. Furthermore, while research has indicated that teacher technology efficacy is a significant enabling factor for technology use, there is limited evidence for how the 1:1 teacher laptop program has influenced teacher technology efficacy. The purpose of this qualitative pragmatic study was …

Success Stories: Community College Teachers Using Technology To Engage Online Students, Alice Louise Dieli

Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies

For online students to be engaged in learning process, best practices include teachers using appropriate technology. However, it is unclear how some teachers who initially face challenges to adopting new teaching technology have overcome those challenges, adjusted their instructional practices, and adopted innovative technology to successfully engage students online. The purpose of this case study was to describe how teachers overcame challenges of using instructional technology tools for online learning. Rogers’s diffusion of innovations theory and Kolb’s experiential learning model provided the framework for this study. The research questions explored why teachers initially resisted the use of technology tools in …