All About Me Ideas

All About Me (Scholastic)
http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail/?id=35720


All About Me Unit
http://www.kinderkorner.com/me.html

All About Me (Power Point)
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/getting-to-know-you-activities-for-young-students-HA001144331.aspx#_Toc273451634

All About Me (Handout to Recreate)
http://www.abcteach.com/free/w/write_allaboutme_elem.pdf

Volunteer EAST Students and Teams Needed, October Notice

EAST has legacy and national projects that need you. Please respond to this post with your first name (only), teacher, and the project that you are interested in volunteering to help complete. You will select anonymous to respond to this post but remember to list the information requested.

Lego and Robotics
Our former team leader, Treylin (now attends Dunbar, 6th Grade) attended EAST Night Out, Oct. 18 and hopes to attend ENO Encore, Oct. 28 to recruit a new team leader and members. You may respond to this post as well as see Treylin on the dates mentioned.

Energy
This year's National Community Service Area. Below are links to information and ideas on how you and your teammates could get our EAST program involved with the making a difference in the use of Energy in our community.

EAST National Service Project Website
http://www.eastproject.org/ServiceProject2012/

Tracking and Assessing Energy and Water Consumption
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager#estimate

EAST Conference Competitions
http://conference.eastproject.org/?id=28 (use last year's site to prepare)
Note: Check http://www.eastproject.org every class period until the 2012 Conference site and competitions are available.

AAIM Media Festival
Submit videos and other products into competition.
Details Coming Soon

King Receives EAST After Hours Grant

M. L. King Elementary EAST recently received an EAST After Hours Grant to fund King EAST Young Preservationist Mapping and 3D Workshops. The project developed from the Fraternal Cemetery/PAAC Project started in 2008 to help increase the awareness of cemetery preservation/historical importance to youth, particularly African-American youth because of their low participation in visiting cemeteries. The project resulted in the establishment of PAAC Jr. Preservation Society, and KEYP is working to build membership at the school as a model in the state through recruitment of youth as trainers and co-developers in Historical Mapping and 3D Book Workshops for local PAAC society members and teachers participating in the Little Rock School District History Academy. From October 2011 to January 2012, EAST students will be training in Augmented Reality, ArcGIS and working with select participants to co-develop examples for the planned workshops.

LRSD History Academy Workshop Dates
January - April, 2012 (Reserved 1 Hr. Sessions)

Community Workshop
February 10, 2012, 8:30-12:30 (Tentative)

This EAST After Hours project is funded by the Enhancing Education Through Technology grant made possible by the Arkansas Department of Education and is done in cooperation with the Southeast Educational Service Cooperative and the EAST Initiative. Also, with a contribution from Preservation of African-American Cemeteries, Inc.

For Info. Contact
Deidre Williams, EAST Facilitator
M. L. King Jr. Elementary Magnet
905 Dr. M. L. King Jr. Dr.
Little Rock, Arkansas 72202
501-447-5135/deidre.williams@lrsd.org

King EAST Plans Two Dates for EAST Night Out

King EAST students are looking forward to EAST Night Out. There will be two dates for EAST Night Out this year, October 18, 5:30-7:30 and October 28 during King Fall Fest. Tuesday, October 18 is designed for EAST clients (present and potential), EAST Leadership Team Parents, and King EAST Alumni. The second event, October 28 is in conjunction with the school's annual fall fest from 5:00-8:00 and everyone is encouraged to drop by the EAST Booth (Edline Help will also be available on a sign-up basis). Both events are drop-in with sessions repeating about 30 minutes.

Student Training

Check out the training opportunities available to EAST Students at http://eastproject.org/TrainingEvents/StudentTraining.aspx. You can also participate in training at school from participants who have completed System Administrator Training, Augmented Reality Training and soon, Community Mapping. Respond to this post with the title of the training you are interested in, first name and last name intial (John D.), and teacher's (Mrs. Frizle's 4th Grade).

To post, you must select comment as anonymous but be sure to follow the comment directions above in order to complete your request.

Rubric: Group Research

Here is one example rubric for group research: