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Elementary Methods
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Elementary Teaching
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Oregon Adventure
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Curriculum Design: Oregon Adventure

URL: http://inkido.indiana.edu/oregon

Context	This project was a collaboration between the IST department and the Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Dr. Sasha Barab had developed a working relationship with the Children's Museum. The director of the science works at the museum, Justin Armstrong, wanted to take a trip to Oregon but have his trip feed back into the K-12 community.
Conditions	This project required very quick turn around and was undertaken to help bolster the relationship between the School of Education and the Children's Museum. The central aspect of this project was to engage elementary school children with Justin as he traversed the country. We worked with two second grade classrooms as they logged onto our website to ask Justin questions concerning his trip. In response, Justin would pose challenges for the students to investigate with the goal that the students would help or ask Justin to stop by a landmark and send back what he learned about that particularly area or landmark.
Scope	This project occurred over the course of four weeks while Justin traveled from Indianapolis to Oregon. Nearly every day of the trip Justin and his traveling companion Greg would send back journal entries and pictures of their surroundings. I would quickly get these placed on the website so students in the two 2nd grade classrooms would be able to learn about Justin's and Greg's adventure.
Role	I designed and did nearly all of the development for the website. I also conducted research on the route that Justin was traveling and developed resources to help students respond to Justin's challenges. I feel that this project allowed us to develop a strong working relationship with the Children's Museum of Indianapolis which has been beneficial to both the School of Education and the Children's Museum.