NETS+1

Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity

- Promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness

- Engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources

- Promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes

- Model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and cirtual environments

__Sources of Evidence:__

Relating to this standard, I considered the faculty to be my students. I developed and modeled a way to make a children's nonfiction book interactive. For this project, I used Google Earth (the sky feature) to "illustrate" the book "Once Upon a Starry Night." It tells the story of 10 constellations and the history behind them. It took students from just listening to the book, to seeing connections between the book and the actual stars. The Google Sky tour actually takes participants to each constellation to see what it looks like in relation to the rest of the universe. [You will need to have access to Google Earth to open this file. When you open the file, choose to stay on Earth and double click on the starting location.]

