Students benefit from active hands on learning projects with the help of Toshiba.
May 25, 2005
Press Release: Students learn about their home through technology and field research. This spring, students of Little Wound School learned how to use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) with satellite triangulation, with the help of Toshiba Company. Gwen Foote worked with Toshiba representatives. A lesson module written by Gwen Foote was implemented when she wrote a grant request to Toshiba and was awarded funding to assist in the Module of Wildlife Management and Location through with GPS.
May 25, 2005Press Release: Students learn about their home through technology and field research. This spring, students of Little Wound School learned how to use GPS (Global Positioning Systems) with satellite triangulation, with the help of Toshiba Company. Gwen Foote worked with Toshiba representatives. A lesson module written by Gwen Foote was implemented when she wrote a grant request to Toshiba and was awarded funding to assist in the Module of Wildlife Management and Location through with GPS.
Gwen Foote, TAG Instructor/ Grant Writer, took students in collaborative groups on a field study to Kyle Dam, on Pine Ridge Reservation. Sixth graders mentored and helped younger students in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade learn about navigation with compasses and GPS handheld equipment. 
They had prepared for this field study after several classes of math activities in the TAG classroom and Math Meets, Lakol Wowiyukcan (Lakota: Math Thought Process), a teachers’ collaboration project with hands on active learning centers. Teachers Reva High Horse, Val Charging Eagle, Gwen Foote, and ISD Theresa Mendoza volunteered their time and materials for students to participate in a math competition/ festival.
Lessons are integrated in a Module that focusing on Science, Math, and Presentations with Technology with collaborative, cooperative learning groups, older classes mentoring younger classes. Field Practice takes place at Kyle Dam a short distance form Little Wound School in Kyle, SD Curriculum Module written by Gwen Foote. Grades 1-6 work in the field as mentors and collaborators in data collection for analysis and interpretation through computer technology for presentations.Gwen Foote wrote the grant awarded to Little Wound School from NASA. This is a whole school approach in bringing NASA programs to the students and helping teachers with professional development through NASA.
Display Presentation by 6th Graders of GPS Location through Triangulation at INMED Science Fair.
(Joseph Rosales &
Jason Feather Earring Jr.)
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