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WEB INTEGRATED MATH/SCIENCE SMART96 PROJECTS CURRENTLY BEING DEVELOPED BY TEACHERS FROM VARIOUS RHODE ISLAND SCHOOLS:

• LASERS

  Project Authors:
  Steve Skuba
  Sam Moffat

  Revised:8/8/96 
  
  

  Mt. Hope High School
  Bristol, R.I.
  

  Project Overview: Since Lasers are a part of everyday life the objective of this project is to familiarize the student with lasers. The students will explore lasers and how they work along with proper safety procedures. The students will view an experiment using the laser and then perform experiments of their own. The Internet will be used to explore laser use; including but not be limited to the following areas: practical applications, products, and occupations.
  

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• Bio Ethics: Assessing the Impact of Technology on Society

  Project Author:
  Pat O'Donnell, ride0941@ride.ri.net
  Tolman High School, Exchange Street, Pawtucket, RI.

  
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  Project Overview: As science has progressed through the 20th Century, it has had a tremendous impact on our world. Genetic engineering, test tube babies, organ transplants ---- impossible dreams of the past have become our reality. And those dreams and that reality continually fill our novels and viewing screens. At present a heated debate has begun about the nature of those technological "improvements" and their impact on our society. The following project will take students through an examination of some of those trends and will attempt to help them form valid criteria for judging the merit of additional advances in the future.

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• COLLABORATIVE ROBOTICS and DISTANCE LEARNING

  Project Authors:
  

  • Don McCabe
  • Maureen Walusiak
  • Mark Hedden

  
  

This humble location serves as a communications hub, resource, and update vehicle between all participating students, teachers, and interested human beings.

In addition, this website will enable you an opportunuity to contact us directly with your questions and comments as well as linking you directly to other support pages on the Internet.

It is the general purpose of this collaborative project to assist in the design, construction, and competition of a "reprogrammable, multifunction manipulator designed to move material, parts, tools, or specialized devices through various programmed motions for the performance of a variety of tasks. The robot shall be entered into the U.S. FIRST ROBOTICS COMPETITION

The Code of Life: An Introduction to DNA

Project Authors:

• Deirdre London, Cranston High School East, Science Department
  Cranston, Rhode Island
  
• Linda Lorenzo, Cranston High School East, English Department
  Cranston, Rhode Island
  

PROJECT OVERVIEW: Using the Internet as a primary resource, students will understand the structure and function of DNA, as well as some of its effects on heredity and its applications in forensics.

Investigating Periodic Properties

Project Authors:

• Lynne Davis Exeter-West Greenwich High School, West Greenwich, Rhode Island. - smart025@ride.ri.net
  
• Doug Wilson Exeter-West Greenwich High School, West Greenwich, Rhode Island. - smart024@ride.ri.net
  

PROJECT OVERVIEW: In this project, students will do a scavenger hunt on the Internet to answer questions about chemical elements. These questions may relate to the history of the elements, their uses in health and technology, and their environmental effects.

Students will then use the Internet to gather chemical data relating to periodic properties of the elements. They will then compile, graph, and analyze the data to discover the periodic trends of these properties.

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Teens Coping with Stress in a Stressful World

Project authors:

• Constance Zeeland, Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program, Providence, Pawtucket, East Providence, RI - smart046@ride.ri.net
  
• Maureen Farrell, Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program, Providence, Pawtucket, East Providence, RI - smart047@ride.ri.net

Project Overview: This project asks students to investigate the role stress plays in their lives. Students will learn about the effects stress can have on their physical systems. They will determine their heart rates during exercise and they will examine nutritional choices that also effects how their bodies can deal with stress. The Internet activities are interdisciplinary and students will collaborate with other schools and adolescents in this project.

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THE REBIRTH OF NARRAGANSETT BAY

Project Authors:

• Rosemary Casale, Mount Pleasant High School, Providence, RI - casaler@ride.ri.net
  
• Margaret Coleman, Mount Pleasant High School, Providence, RI - colemanm@ride.ri.net
  
• James Snead, Mount Pleasant High School, Providence, RI - smart043@ride.ri.net
  

PROJECT OVERVIEW:

This unit is designed as part of a multi-disciplinary telecommunications unit on wastewater management. The activities have been developed in the areas of science, math, and technology and can be enhanced with the addition of social studies, art, health, and language arts components. The students will investigate an historical background involving a perspective on health issues as related to wastewater management. This will lead them to identify the need for creating a system of wastewater management that will successfully maintain a healthy environment in the Narragansett Bay. Finally the students will work in cooperative learning groups representing the separate components that will produce an actual design of a catch basin sufficient for the wastewater treatment of the Narragansett Bay. Costs of the project will be determined and a budget will be developed.

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comments to: Jeannette Mulholland 8/96 jmm@uriacc.uri.edu

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