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Download full textCorcoran, Jerry – Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, 2015
The Illinois Valley Community College (IVCC) Honors Program's mission is to "promote the identification and achievement of education and/or career goals for its participants by offering a specially designed honors curriculum, by providing stimulating academic and social program events, and by facilitating and recognizing student pursuits in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Honors Curriculum, Program Descriptions, Institutional Mission
Direct linkHike, Nina; Beck-Winchatz, Bernhard – Science Teacher, 2015
Many students probably know something about space from playing computer games or watching movies and TV shows. Teachers can expose them to the real thing by launching their experiments into near space on a weather balloon. This article describes how to use high-altitude ballooning (HAB) as a culminating project to a chemistry unit on experimental…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Research Design, Space Sciences, Space Exploration
McCoy, Michelle – College & Research Libraries, 2010
The collaborative effort between two Special Collections librarians and a history professor at DePaul University led to a quarter-long undergraduate project in the archives using China Missions Correspondence. In a reversal of traditional methods that assumes archival use to answer a question, this project looks at the document as the source of…
Descriptors: Primary Sources, Archives, Qualitative Research, Librarian Teacher Cooperation
Schultz, Carol; Kim, Seung – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2008
Higher learning organizations frequently offer courses isolated from other disciplines or areas of concentration. The intent of this study was to explore collaboration practices on authentic based projects involving two distinct courses from differing programs: Instructional Technology and Educational Leadership. This paper describes the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Problem Based Learning, Faculty Development, Educational Technology
Jones, Orville E., Ed.; Swan, Malcolm D., Ed. – 1972
At a meeting in DuPage County, Illinois, in April 1972, speakers representing the PTA, students, school teachers and administrators, outdoor education, the Illinois School Boards Association, and the Open Lands Project voiced enthusiastic support for introducing environmental education into the school curriculum. One of the County's several…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Support, Curriculum Development
Williams, Robert A.; And Others – 1990
The Illinois Rivers Project was developed as an integrated, multidimensional science/technology/society pilot project designed to introduce water quality dimensions into Illinois high schools. The project involved high school science, social science, and English teachers in an integrated study of their local river and community. Science students…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Influences, Curriculum Development
