CPS & IVS Student Work in the Collaboratory

The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Illinois Virtual School (IVS) Project is a Virtual School project with support of a US Department of Education Funds for the Improvement of Education grant from the Illinois State Board of Education. Participating schools include:

Thomas A. Edison Regional Gifted Center
F. W. Reilly Elementary School
F. W. Reilly Elementary School Annex
Jose Clemente Orozco Community Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences

This year's IVS projects offered third, fourth, and fifth grade Language Arts, Science and Social Studies students a chance to express themselves creatively with projects such as:

"Exploring Picture Books and their Authors"
"A Day in My School's Neighborhood"
"Poet's Corner"
"Nature Niches in My School's Backyard"

Classrooms participate as collaborative online learners in the four projects listed below. Teachers learn to use the Collaboratory and facilitate learning when learning how to facilitate, write courses and teach online.

CPS-IVS: Exploring Picture Books and Their Authors is a project in which students take a survey to learn about each other, read a picture book as a class, contribute individual book reviews, and use extended response to contribute their reviews and discuss the books they read to the Internet Book Club book discussions. If you have a Collaboratory account, you can see the reviews by logging in at http://collaboratory.nunet.net and searching for "CPS-IVS: Exploring Picture Books and Their Authors."

CPS-IVS: A Day in My School's Neighborhood is a project in which students take a survey to learn about each other, complete research about various schools in a Cybrary, take digital images with a camera, and share their images with others participating students. To view the work that students completed for this project, you must have a Collaboratory Login and Password. Why? Because personal information and images are posted in the "Day in My School's Neighborhood Nexus Community."

Second and Third Grades

Fourth Grades

Fifth Grades

CPS-IVS: Poet's Corner is a project in which students take a survey to learn about each other, complete research about poetry in a Cybrary, and write and share poetry others participating students. To view the work that students completed for this project, simply click the links listed below.

CPS-IVS: Natures Niches in My School's Backyard is a project in which students take a survey to collect data about natural happenings on or near their school, complete research about naturally occurring phenomena in a Cybrary, take pictures of the item they are going to write about, and write and share their scientific information with other participating students. To view the work that students completed for this project, simply click the links listed below.

Do you know about .... ?

Eyesores

How Hot? Investigating Solar Energy

How Many Birds?

How Much Dew?

Hydroponics

Illinois Prairie Path

Spring Charting

Workshop Agendas and student work: Jan 17, Collaboratory Overview, Projects Developed by Teachers

	CPS-Illinois Virtual School Student Work in the Collaboratory
	The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) Illinois Virtual School (IVS) Project is a Virtual School project with support of a US Department of Education Funds for the Improvement of Education grant from the Illinois State Board of Education. Participating schools include: Thomas A. Edison Regional Gifted Center F. W. Reilly Elementary School F. W. Reilly Elementary School Annex Jose Clemente Orozco Community Academy of Fine Arts and Sciences This year's IVS projects offered third, fourth, and fifth grade Language Arts, Science and Social Studies students a chance to express themselves creatively with projects such as: "Exploring Picture Books and their Authors" "A Day in My School's Neighborhood" "Poet's Corner" "Nature Niches in My School's Backyard" Classrooms participate as collaborative online learners in the four projects listed below. Teachers learn to use the Collaboratory and facilitate learning when learning how to facilitate, write courses and teach online. CPS-IVS: Exploring Picture Books and Their Authors is a project in which students take a survey to learn about each other, read a picture book as a class, contribute individual book reviews, and use extended response to contribute their reviews and discuss the books they read to the Internet Book Club book discussions. If you have a Collaboratory account, you can see the reviews by logging in at http://collaboratory.nunet.net and searching for "CPS-IVS: Exploring Picture Books and Their Authors." CPS-IVS: A Day in My School's Neighborhood is a project in which students take a survey to learn about each other, complete research about various schools in a Cybrary, take digital images with a camera, and share their images with others participating students. To view the work that students completed for this project, you must have a Collaboratory Login and Password. Why? Because personal information and images are posted in the "Day in My School's Neighborhood Nexus Community." Second and Third Grades Fourth Grades Fifth Grades CPS-IVS: Poet's Corner is a project in which students take a survey to learn about each other, complete research about poetry in a Cybrary, and write and share poetry others participating students. To view the work that students completed for this project, simply click the links listed below. Cinquain Free Verse Haiku Limerick Shape Poems CPS-IVS: Natures Niches in My School's Backyard is a project in which students take a survey to collect data about natural happenings on or near their school, complete research about naturally occurring phenomena in a Cybrary, take pictures of the item they are going to write about, and write and share their scientific information with other participating students. To view the work that students completed for this project, simply click the links listed below. Do you know about .... ? Eyesores How Hot? Investigating Solar Energy How Many Birds? How Much Dew? Hydroponics Illinois Prairie Path Spring Charting Workshop Agendas and student work: Jan 17, Collaboratory Overview, Projects Developed by Teachers