Each month students will study a different occupation and see how physics and chemistry fit into these occupations. Students will learn how to use several different types of technology and share their knowledge with adults, students their age, and elementary students. Kimball Elementary is located next to Paradise Creek. This project will develop site specific curriculum for Paradise Creek and translate the information into Spanish. They will also develop a docent plan for the park and put together grade-level specific mobile lab kits for classrooms to utilize at the creek.
Students can be in personal contact with others in Mexico, France, Quebec, Spain and Germany.
Support student efforts to visit countries where their target language is spoken in a home-stay environment, and to host students from those countries in the same housing arrangement. Create a teacher training and demonstration project. The project will create a student-run Gold Rush era museum for the school and community on the James Monroe campus. That era will come to life through the artifacts in the museum and by our Living History Days. Another component of the project is to have guest speakers come to the museum, such as mountain men and other character interpreters that will bring to life the people of the past.