Spotlight on the 1996
SIGTel
Online Award Winners and Honorable Mentions
Spectacle Island and the Big
Dig
Diane
Eisner
Rick Thibeault
Clarke Middle
School
17 Stedman Rd.
Lexington, MA 02173 USA
In this project, students created Web pages about the history and
revegetation
of Spectacle Island as part of the multibillion dollar transportation
project
known in Massachusetts as the Big Dig. The Big Dig is the largest
transportation
project in the history of the United States, and Spectacle Island is
the future
home of the interpretive center for the project. Students used the
Internet
to research topics related to Spectacle Island and the Big Dig,
published this
information online in the form of Web pages, and e-mailed various
environmental
and political agencies about their environmental concerns. This
project promotes
team and community cooperation, scientific and technological literacy,
writing
across the curriculum, creative writing, historical accuracy in
writing, student-to-student
cooperation, computer literacy, research and communication through
e-mail, use
of the Web as a research tool, designing and implementing HTML Web
pages, the
use of graphics and visuals within these Web pages to support other
methods
of communication, and the of learning presentation and research
skills.
Please take the time to visit our Web site, which is best viewed with
Netscape,
at http://kalypso.cybercom.net/~dhe/explorerteam.html. [Note: This URL
is no
longer active.]
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