I am working on a contract with Jane Fisher, Project Director for Voyages Through Time (VTT) at the SETI Institute. VTT is a one-year high school (9th or 10th grade) standards-based integrated science curriculum, centered on the unifying theme of evolution and delivered on CD ROM. SETI's partners in development are NASA Ames, the California Academy of Sciences, and San Francisco State University. The project is primarily funded by an NSF Instructional Materials Development grant. You can see more at http://www.seti.org. This curriculum is outstanding and exciting. My job is to recruit field test sites and teachers for the national field test in the 2001-2002 school year. I am looking for 9 potential school sites and teachers who are willing to field test the entire full-year curriculum (all six modules in sequence), and 60 other potential teachers to field test at least one (or more) of the modules in either integrated science or subject-specific (earth science, biology, etc.) classes. SETI will make the final determination on sites and teachers, selecting a total of at least 30 teachers based on criteria from their NSF grant. Final decisions will be made by mid-February, 2001. Field teachers and sites need to be demographically (ethnically, socioeconomicallly, academically) and geographically diverse. We are hoping that some of the field test schools will be involved in innovative or reform curriculum, such as urban and rural systemic initiative participants, but we are also looking for traditional schools. Since this is a technology-based curriculum, teachers need to have access to and know how to use computers with CD-ROM drives, LCD projectors, and printers. Teachers also need good internet access on their own either at school or home to communicate with the project and complete online evaluations. It would be preferable to have at least 2 teachers at each school who are field testing VTT, but it is not mandatory. The time commitment will be in the planning (summer 2001, minimal), insuring proper computer, projection and net needs, and then completing online evaluations of each module and activities within the module on an ongoing basis as the activities are taught. Most of the activity and lesson evaluations are done online via WestEd's EdGateway network, and should take no more than 10-15 minutes per activity. -- ******************************************************************** Frona L. Kahn Vice-President DesignWorlds for Learning, Inc. Heritage Village Offices 51 East Campbell Ave. Suite #101-H Campbell, CA 95008 (408) 370-5280 Fax (408) 516-9920 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.designworlds.com Feature on Frona: IN BRASS RING.com http://www.brassring.com/cgi-bin/texis/vortex/newsletter/newsarticles?artfil ******************************************************************** -- This is the ISTA-talk mailing list. To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For more information: <http://www.ista-il.org/about/mail_list.html> To search the archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/>
