About this Project

This project was created during the summer of 2004 while taking an online course, Ways of Knowing: Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology, offered by Walter McKenzie, author of Multiple Intelligences and Instructional Technology: A Manual for Every Mind. The course examined Dr. Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences within the context of today's digital technologies.

The time frame for the unit is 8 weeks, although it may not take you as long, depending on how many class hours you devote to it. I suggest that you divide the project into a Democrat and Republican team using two classes, but it could be done within one class. Classroom teachers will need access to computers for the project.

Schools that participate in the project will be listed on this website with links back to their school. Voting results will be listed on the website as well.

For the group creating campaign posters, slogans, buttons: See this lesson from Scholastic.

STEPS TO SUCCESS:

Register for project by September 5th. See directions below.
Set up a wiki in wikispaces or pbwiki for your class. Use the wiki to house the products students create. We will share wiki addresses for our "Virtual Election Rally".
Enter your class into our frappr map on the homepage of this project. Please be sure to do this so that all participating classes can see where other classes are located!
Divide your class/classes into the two parties, Republican and Democrat.
Break each party into the three teams.
Have students complete the tasks as outlined in the project.
Upload/embed all student products into your wiki.
Contact me if you want to share student work through sharing your wiki with us (and we will share with you, too). After sharing work, arrangements can be made for students to communicate with each other via blogging (we use Blogmeister) or a skype videoconference session. Communication can be ongoing through blogging; videoconferencing would occur sometime during the last two weeks of the project.
October 30TH is voting day. Set up a poll in your wiki using polldaddy, surveymonkey, paper ballots, or any other plling tool you choose. EMAIL ME THE RESULTS OF YOUR VOTE BY THURSDAY NIGHT, 10/30!! I will post the results from each school on this website!!
THE FINAL RESULTS OF THE ELECTION VOTE WILL BE POSTED ON THIS WEBSITE BY FRIDAY 10/31/08, 1:00 PM EST.

Would you like your class to participate in our project??

Deadline to join is: September 5th, 2008. Project must be completed by October 31st. To join:

Email Karen Kliegman, Library Media Specialist, Searingtown School. Please include:

Your name
Grade/class you teach
Your school and where it is located
Your email address and skype address (if you have one)
Any other pertinent information
Include any questions you may have.

Standards Addressed: (New York Learning Standards, 5th Grade)

Social Studies:

History of the United States and New York, Intermediate, Key Idea 1
- ...explore the meaning of American culture by identifying the key ideas, beliefs, and patterns of behavior, and traditions that help define it and unite all Americans
Civics, Citizenship, and Government; Intermediate; Key Idea 2
- ...value the principles, ideals, and core values of the American democratic system based upon the premises of human dignity, liberty, justice, and equality

Language Arts:

Language for Critical Analysis and Evaluation, Intermediate, Speaking and Writing
- ...use standard English, precise vocabulary, and presentational strategies effectively to influence an audience
Language for Social Interaction, Intermediate, Reading and Writing
- ...use appropriate language and style for the situation and the audience and take into account the ideas and interests expressed by the person receiving the message

Herricks Elementary Schools Information Literacy Scope & Sequence Indicators Addressed:

What is the information problem to be solved?
- Analyze the audience in preparing and presenting a final product.
- Compare and select possible presentation formats for a final product.
- Determine types of information, i.e. textual, pictorial or numerical, needed to complete task.
Information-Seeking Strategies: Which resources can I use?
- Analyze and compare content of electronic resources, e.g. CD-ROM, the Internet.
Location and Access: Where can I find these resources?
- Locate within the school library media center, collection catalog, picture books, informational and fiction books, audiovisual materials, periodicals, general reference, and any special collections.
- Use location skills for finding print and non-print sources, e.g. alphabetical order, book spine information, the Dewey Decimal Classification number, relationship between call number and location.
- access information within print resources, e.g. copyright date, volume number, guide words, glossary, bibliography, author’s notes, introduction, footnotes, appendixes, preface.
- Demonstrate knowledge of procedures for accessing information in electronic resources.
Use of Information: What can I use from these resources?
- Recall and organize previous knowledge of subject and build on that knowledge base.
- Determine significant concepts and details gained through reading, listening, and viewing.
- Apply note-taking skills, e.g. highlighting most significant information
- Paraphrase or summarize information to avoid plagiarism
- Record information sources in an approved bibliographic citation format.
Synthesis: How can I share what I have learned?
- Organize and integrate information, e.g. using sequencing, webbing, outlining
- Organize and record information sources in a bibliography using approved citation format for bibliography
- Gather feedback and discuss strengths and weaknesses of presentation and review accordingly.
Evaluation: How will I know I did my job well?
- Use personal criteria such as quality of product and level of personal effort to evaluate the product and justify assessment.
- Summarize the final product, what went well and what should be improved in future products.

For Student ISTE Technology Standards click here.

For more information about Multiple Intelligences, please visit Walter McKenzie's Multiple Intelligence Pages