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The Community Discovered: The Search For Meaning Through The Integration Of Art And Technology In K-12 Education - Annual Progress Report No. 3, Kathy Coufal, Neal Grandgenett, Westside Community Schools Dec 1997

The Community Discovered: The Search For Meaning Through The Integration Of Art And Technology In K-12 Education - Annual Progress Report No. 3, Kathy Coufal, Neal Grandgenett, Westside Community Schools

Teacher Education Faculty Publications

This third evaluation progress report concerns a 5-year project that links technology and the visual and performing arts with other subject areas to transform the education of K-12 students in Nebraska and nationwide. The report states that the "Community Discovered" project is continuing to make substantial and consistent progress in its training, classroom integration, and evaluation activities. It explains that the project focuses on enhancing education by developing interdisciplinary constructivist curriculum units that deliver the arts and art resources to the classrooms of Nebraska and the world via the use of the Internet, describing the project as a multi-element education …


Science Learning Museums As An Extension Of The Elementary Classroom, Aaron Ward Jan 1997

Science Learning Museums As An Extension Of The Elementary Classroom, Aaron Ward

Honors Theses

The lack of good science education in the American school is a problem that will affect the future of the United States. Not only is the decline of science-based teaching of elementary school students due to lack of funds and increase of class size, it is caused by a deficiency of creative teaching methods. One possible method that has and can be cultivated and developed is the use of Science Learning Museums (SLM) as effective teaching tools. The integration of classrooms and science museums can bring about positive, creative, fun, and exciting ways to learn, bringing an unenthusiastic textbook example …