Utah Educational Technology Core Classroom Examples

Life History

Linda Morgan, a teacher at Cottonwood Elementary School, Granite School District conducted an after-school project involving K-2 students. Children and their parents met in the school lab twice a week for six weeks to help children create personal history books. They used scanners to digitize pictures of themselves as infants and tots. Then they used HyperStudio to create simple multimedia presentations about their life.

Community History

Mostly pheasants, coyotes, horses and cows lived in Graves Valley. In 1882 some people came by wagon to a valley called Graves Valley. The man who was leading this group of people was Ebenezer Hanks. After they got settled here in Graves Valley the people started to build houses. A while later a lot of people started to move in after the valley was filled and 150 people lived in this valley. Ebenezer Hanks died in 1884 he only lived in Graves Valley for two years. The people realized that Ebenezer Hanks was the first person here so they named this place Hanksville and that's how Hanksville got its name.

Technology Integrations

A cooperative field experience between Rich, North Summit and South Summit school districts was taken to Yellowstone National Park. The purpose of the trip was to integrate science and technology into a real life scientific applications and methods course. The trip combined Apple E-Mate technology and probes in observation, data recording, organization and analysis of biological and earth science subjects.

Real World Experiences

To fulfill the ecology section of the Biology core requirement in the most authentic way possible, students at Escalante High School went into the field to compare a healthy and a non-healthy riparian area. To assure claims of health were valid, and to give students an idea of how "real world" people actually would have to do this activity as part of their jobs, Gregg Christensen from the local BLM office accompanied the students. He brought along the actual BLM checklist that he would use to enable students to ask the right questions and look at the correct components to determine riparian area functionality.