National Educational Computing Conference Workshop
Meeting at the Crossroads:
Enhancing Cross-Curricular Projects with Technology
June 27, 2000
Presenters: Dr. Serena Roberts and Erin Thaler
This workshop explored instructional strategies that draw on students' multiple intelligences and promote interdisciplinary thinking through project-based activities. Participants used the Internet to collaboratively organize Web-based resources and generate authentic assessment instruments. They were to bring an idea for a unit and potentially related Web resources.Agenda
- Anticipatory Set
- Interdisciplinary Activities
- Multiple Intelligence Activities
- Assessment Instruments
Participants' Listserv
Selected Participants' Preliminary Unit Tracks
Name Educational Organization Grade level/
Content AreaTrack Title Track ID Katie Creamer Ola Elementary School 2nd / All Australia 16541 Vicki Uebele Ola Elementary School 4th / All U.S. Constitution 16549 Maxine Allen Ola Elementary School 5th / All Immigration 16547 Mary Bouck Battle Creek Schools Middle school / Math Area and Perimeter 16568 John Harmon Holy Innocents' Episcopal 7th / Social Studies Oregon Trail 16526 Valerie Hardy Horace Mann, Math, Science, & Technology 7th / Science and Reading Solar System 16530 Melissa Bohmer Wyoming High School 9-12 / Social Studies An Expedition to a New Land 16545 Jodi Fauver Idaho Falls School District 9-12 / Science and Technology Cool, Clear Water 16524 Jalynn McDonald Lee County Senior High 10 / Biology Metamorphosis 16543 Philip van Tienhoven C.P.S. 10-12 / Modern Languages Une semaine à Paris 16546 Mike Rapatan Info Warehouse Tertiary / Communication and Media Literacy Mediamorphosis 16528 Mike Oswalt Battle Creek Schools Administrative Life of a Water Droplet 16527