Spotlight on the 1996
SIGTel
Online Award Winners and Honorable Mentions
Water Quality and
Communication
Dottie
Herd
Ten Mile Elementary School
Route 2 Box 5
Ten Mile, TN 37880 USA
This series of lessons were student initiated. The STS teaching
strategy was
implemented. Students began by collecting and testing water samples
from tributaries
to the Tennessee River and conveying their results to other students
in the
Tennessee Valley Project (a statewide telecommunication project) using
e-mail.
They originally planned to compare findings at various locations
(before Watts
Bar Dam, etc.), but students then became interested in water across
the United
States and began an all-out campaign using technology to see if they
could collect
samples from every state using technology.
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