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PROJECT DESCRIPTION & GUIDELINES
Jefferson Gifted Education students have been studying the various
sciences throughout the year. Mr. Taylor, their teacher, would
like to end this year with something really special. The
motivation for developing this project came from two sources:
A Charleston Schools Foundation Grant 2007-2008 for my Gifted
Education Program, centering on Science; the great Nobel Prize
website located at
http://www.nobelprize.org Charleston G.E.
students love the Nobel Prize.org simulations.
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Each group of 4th, 5th, and 6th grade will divide into groups of
two.
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The
group of two will then choose a Nobel Prize winner from the
Nobelprize.org website listing.
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The
team will then develop a traditional poster/dioramic type of
display of their Nobel winner, and the discovery, literature
item, or Peace Effort. Any type of Nobel Prize will work
for this project.
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Here are the elements that a successful Nobel Prize Presentation
will have:
- The
Nobel Prize winner's name, and general biographical
information: birth date; home place, including
country and city; interesting life story facts, and
whether the winner is still living and/or death
date.
- A
description of the theory, theme or idea behind the
Nobel Prize given:
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What did the winner do to deserve the prize?
What did the winner do to effect mankind?
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detailed description of what the winner did in
wording that we can understand.
The
student team is to devise:
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visual display such as poster, diorama, or model of
the Nobel Prize (Peace and literature prizes will
require something different and even more creative
such as a mini-drama or speaking presentation.
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computer game with Excel or Power Point to be
available on the workstation or by projector.
Games may be placed on the Project Arrow web page
server if quality is high.
Mr.
Taylor will provide poster board, construction
paper, markers, colored pencils, glue and whatever
materials are available in the G.E. room. Some
special materials might have to be brought in from home.
We will all work together to try to figure out how to
produce these SUPER-DOOPER projects. |
5. OPEN-HOUSES: Open-houses
will be conducted in the G.E. room during the month of May, with
daytime time-slots and an evening or two for parents and others to
view our results.
6. This project will be the
last big project to be conducted in Gifted Education classes for
Spring, 2008. Each student team will be allowed to work on
this as long as necessary, but must be finished by the end of the first
week of May.
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Learning On-Line by Howard Taylor March, 2008
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