The Alliance for Excellence funded the organization and implementation of Virtual Summer Book Clubs for students entering grades 3 through 5. To enrich their reading and writing over the summer, students took part in an electronic book club that required them to read a book and then communicate with other students and teachers via an online discussion. Books, a reading schedule, and teacher feedback and instruction were provided to all students. The books clubs helped students sustain or increase their fluency rates during the summer months, all while reading and comprehending complex literary texts independently. Quantitative and qualitative data was use to measure the growth and success of this program.
Tolerance Books
Using bare books and art supplies, the 7th grade students created books on tolerance and shared them with the 2nd grade students
Vernier Probeware
These materials include:
- Vernier Lab Book (1)
- Go!Link Interfaces (7)
- Go!Motion Sensors (7)
- Voltage Probe Sensors (7)
- Go!Temp Sensors (14)
- Light Sensor Sensors (7)
- Dual-Range Force Sensor Sensors (7)
- Force Plates (2)
The Probeware and Sensors are used in the following Science Labs:
- Batteries & Voltage Lab
- Measuring Elastic Force Lab
- Measuring Gravitational Force Lab
- Force of Friction Lab
- Force Exerted by a Motor Lab
- Work and the Motor Lab
- Power of a Motor Lab
- Inclined Plane Lab
- Pulley Lab
- Lever Lab
- Newton’s Law of Motion Labs
- Motion of a Mousetrap Lab
- Motion of a Fan Car Lab
- Roller Coaster Lab
- Sun as an Energy Source Lab
- And many more!