Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 12:36:43 -0600
To: satex@mail.ed.uiuc.edu
From: mkelly@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Melissa Kelly)
Subject: insect project of mine

Hello Fellow Class Members. My project outline is as follows below. Please
provide me with feedback to improve and other ideas are welcome.

"It's A Buggy World" connects children around the world so that they can
compare and study nature and some of its inhabitants. This project is being
conducted with teachers at Fisher Grade School, in Fisher, Illinois, along
with classrooms from various countries around the world. The Fisher
teachers are in the midst of a global communication project with
international classrooms as part of a Building-Based Technology grant from
the Illinois State Board of Education. Their project is "It's A Small World
After All" and will end with a "World's Fair" May 16, where the community
and parents will be invited to observe the school's accomplishments. My
project on insects will be conducted with a few of these classrooms and
will become part of the "World's Fair" exhibits.

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This project incorporates science, social studies and math activities while
engaging the students in fun activities on the Web, outdoors, and in the
classroom.

Designed for students in grades Kindergarten - Sixth Grade.

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At some point in their lives, just about everyone has some type of
interaction with some of the smallest inhabitants of the earth - insects.
They affect our lives in many ways, some good, some not so good.  Insects
live in all parts of the world - from the tropics to Antartica.  For this
reason, this project's goal is to collect some interesting facts about
insects that live in your immediate environment. The information will be
shared with students in the participating classrooms around the world via
the web.  The information will be collected via ann online form on the web
at http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/~~~~~~~ (not yet completed).

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Activities:
The web site will provide a form for submitting answers to questions
relative to insects that live in your geographic areas. Questions such as:
"What is your favorite insect?", "Is this insect a pest or helpful in some
way?", "How is this insect a pest/helpful?", "Does this insect go through
complete or incomplete metamorphasis in its development?", "What is the
life span of this insect?" - and so on...  The web site will also provide
some other resources on the web for researching insects.

There will be activities for students to do outside of the web as well.
For example, growing butterflies from larva to adult, writing stories or
information sheets on insects, and, of course, art work.  Some of the
results of these activities will be scanned and placed on the web site for
this project.  Additional activities will be planned and displayed from
input from participating classrooms as the project progresses.

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The project begins March 24, 1997 and runs through April 15, 1997.  The
summary and results of the project will be posted on the web and shared
with parents and the community of Fisher at the Grade School's World's Fair
on May 16.



Melissa

Melissa L. Kelly
Coordinator, Information Technologies Training
Education & Outreach
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
237 Computing Applications Building
605 East Springfield
Champaign, IL 61820

Phone:  (217) 244-5606
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