Learner-Centered

Girls Communicating Career Connections

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Girls Communicating Career Connections (GC3) is a youth-produced, video series and companion educator materials on science and engineering careers, developed by and for middle school aged girls.

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GC3

"Internet Photo Essays" Project

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Goals: 

Project participants will accomplish the following goals:

    • Increased ability to understand and present information on social issues from expressive and analytic perspectives
    • Increased ability to perform in a collaborative work environment
    • Increased ability to present information in multimedia formats
    • Increased skill in using multimedia authoring software and the Internet

"Our Neighborhood" Project

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The "Our Neighborhood" project introduces kids to structured ways of thinking and expressing ideas about the people, places and things that matter most to them. The lessons build on the information and experiences that the children and the instructors already have about the culture around them. Click below to see the lesson plan for each of the eight sessions.

Goals: 

Children doing this project will achieve the following goals:

    • Increased vocabulary as they describe and come to understand some of the people, places, events and things in their family, peer group and community
    • Increased ability to perform such social skills as sharing, listening, taking turns and helping others
    • New factual and qualitative information about the people and places in their neighborhood that are important to children
    • Increased ability to present concrete and abstract information in multimedia formats
    • Increased skill in using multimedia authoring software and the Internet
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