1. CTAP 295 Presentation - Accessing Water Quality in a Local Creek by Sampling Macro Invertebrates By: Charlie Crannell Science Instructor Foothill High School ccrannell@suhsd.net

2. CTAP 295 EXPECTATIONS Three weeks of absolute hell! Six units $500

3. What Really Happened Developed an understanding of the Internet. Found some cool web sites. Reinforced CTAP 100 lessons. Formalized and improved a lesson into an integrated unit. $1,000 and 6 units.

4. Learning Expectations for the Students Reinforce ecological principals. Apply Scientific Method. Facilitate independent learning. Break up the tedium of the traditional learning environment.

5. Student Learning Successes Motivated students explored web sites and developed their own experiments from what they learned. All students developed a better understanding of ecological principals. Students did something they had never done before.

6. Student Learning Failures Plagiarism - some of them just don’t get it! Independent learning frustrates the hell out of some students. Difficulties within groups.

7. Assessment Data Pre-Lab - 72% Post-Lab - 83% Improvement of 11% Pre-Lab Low - 54% Post-Lab Low - 66% Improvement of 12% Pre-Lab High - 90% Post-Lab High - 98% Improvement of 8%

8. Conclusion The positives of this experience have been: I have learned to better integrate technology into my lessons; The Standards-Based Lesson forced me to more clearly identify the objectives of my lesson; I found that technology based projects facilitate higher level learning. My lesson focuses on application, analysis, and synthesis of a final conclusion.

9. The Internet allows students to dive deeper into a subject by providing research capabilities not available in a traditional classroom; Spread sheets save time and remove most of the drudgery from analyzing data; And kids like technology! Return to web siteReturn to web site