MU ARSI Teacher Partner Meeting February 3- 4, 2000

Room 236 Jenkins Hall - MU
Huntington, WV

TECHNOLOGY SUPPORTING QUALITY INSTRUCTION

Materials and Software Previewed at the Meeting
Contacting presenters
Vendors of Previewed Software
Websites Recommended at the Meeting
Software Recommendations from the Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

Materials and Software
Previewed at the Meeting

Carmen Sandiego Math Detective - from Broderbund, Grades 3-7 . Provides students with an environment in which they can practice discussion and problem-solving skills. Students share opinions, listen to other's ideas, and work together to create the best solutions.
Decisions, Decisions-The Environment - from ?, Grades 5-10. Skills include: computation of whole numbers, geometry, reasoning, problem solving, developing number sense, estimation and mental math. It also comes with off line activities/lessons to teach the software, enhance lessons, and tie to regular curriculum as well as links for extra math practice and research.
Fizz & Martina's Blue Falls Elementary Math Adventures- from Tom Snyder, Grades 3-4. Uses problem solving and mathematical communication skills that parallel NCTM Standards. Can get the whole class involved using only one computer.
The Graph Club from Tom Snyder, a hands-on graphing tool designed for students in grades K-4.
Inspiration Software software that allows brainstorming, planning, graphical organizing, outlining, concept mapping and webbing.
Interactive Chemistry Journal - from Prentice Hall, deals with the concepts of basic skills ( nomenclature, balancing equations, stoichiometry) energy & matter, atomic structure, molecular structure, gases, kinetics, and equilibrium. It contains lessons and exercises. It is mostly tutorial.
IPSE - by Instructional Performance Systems, expert systems software that includes Course Building, Lesson Building and Exam Building. Demo version available off their website.
Peanut software http://www.exeter.edu/~rparris/ - free software created at Exeter Academy. Includes numerous programs including a general purpose plotting utility, an integer calculator, fractal expressions, discrete mathematics applications, scatter plotting and constructing 2 and 3 dimension geometric figures.
PrimeTime Math - Cliffbound from Tom Snyder, challenging math problems set in real world problems solving. Includes worksheets for follow-up. Also websites for further research. Grades 4-9.
Science Alive - an elementary science series consisting of 18 concept packages from Shortland Publishing.
Science Court - from Tom Snyder, teaches fundamental concepts in elementary and middle school science. Includes hands-on activities, review and predictions covering: * Sound * Statistics * Water Cycle * Work & Simple Machines
Software Evaluation Form
Starry Night -
Time Liner - from Tom Snyder, A tool to create and print time lines. May be used in many subject areas K-12, to display relationships between almost any proportional items, ie. Time, size, weight, speed, distance, temperature.

Carmen-

Contact information for those presenting at the February meeting
Nancy Henson, nhenson_2000@yahoo.com
Harold Peach, hpeach@pop.uky.edu
George Watson, watson@marshall.edu

Vendors of Previewed Software
Broderbund http://www.broderbund.com/
Inspiration Software http://www.inspiration.com/
Instructional Performance Systems, Inc. http://www.ipsiep.com/
Prentice Hall http://www.prenhall.com
Shortland Publishing http://www.shortland.com
Tom Snyder http://www.tomsnyder.com/

Websites Recommendations

ARSI main website http://www.arsi.org/
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse http://www.enc.org/
From Now On http://www.fno.org/ Jamie McKenzie's website - author of How Teachers Learn Technology Best

Pictures from the February 2000 Meeting
February 2000 Meeting Agenda

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