About Project WOW

 
Project WOW is a collaborative school-university project between Eastern Illinois University Department of Early Childhood, Elementary, and Middle Level Education and Carl Sandburg Elementary School.  ELE3340/001, Social Studies Methods for the Elementary and Middle Level School, has been redesigned as a school-based methods course with a commitment to technology integration.  Pre-service teachers enrolled in ELE3340/001 (Judy Barford, instructor) along with children of the third grade classes of Lou Conwell and Kathy Miller, coordinate their efforts throughout the semester to research value-based curriculum with technology support.  Seventy+  participants made up the Lincoln teams for spring semesters 2007, 2008, and 2009, in celebration of the 2009 Lincoln Bicentennial.   In alternate semesters, Project WOW develops various  Heroes curricula: Wonders of Wisdom. Our theme for fall, 2008 focused on the struggle for freedom in the 1800's, especially the abolitionists, through Wonders of Wisdom: Heroes of Freedom.  For the Bicentennial of the great journey west, 2002 - 2006, Project WOW teams studied the Lewis and Clark Expedition: Wonders of the Wilderness.

For Fall, 2009, each of  twelve teams is studying one of America's national parks or historic sites.  Along with Lewis and Clark, the national parks are a Wonders of the Wilderness theme.                                                                             WOW history

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