Essential Elements

Name of Project:  Should be interesting and helpful to recognize project (5 Points)

Description of Project: Should include brief description of process and content.  How will you insure that your project is interactive and dynamic? What TEKS will it cover? (15 Points)

Learner Objectives to the Address:  What will the learner learn?  What mastery levels will the project demand that they be engaged?  How deep will the student be required to deal with the content? What SCANS skills?   (15 Points)

Students Involved:  What age level,  describe the grouping process, and what type of student involvement will be necessary for this project. (10 Points -- more points for more age groups, cultures, varied backgrounds and expertise)

Resources Needed to Accomplish Project Objective:   What types of technologies, time, facilitators, books, software, hardware...will be needed?  (10 Points --complete budget for up to $100 and in exemplary cases $200)

Team Members:  Who will be collaborating on this project? How will the global database of knowledge grow as a result of this project? (15 Points -- more collaboration & outside entities the more points)

Process of Evaluation and Assessment of Project Objectives:   Who will create the criteria for the project?  What are the criteria?   How will you know if a student has accomplished the criteria? How often will you evaluate (formative & summative). (20 Points -- include the evaluation instrument(s) that you will use)

Training / Planning Sessions Needed for Project:   What type of skills training will be involved, who will give it, when will it be given?  Do you need a facilitator? How many planning sessions will you need to meet with collaborators?   (10 Points)

Timeline: Give a brief overview of a timeline for your project.  When will it begin and end.  When do you expect to reach milestones and what are they? (10 Points)

Email project descriptions to:  joy@arp.sprnet.org