Expeditionary learning.FOUR BONNER SPRINGS-EDWARDS DISTRICT (www.usd204.k12.ks.us) elementary schools elementary school: see school. and one middle school in Kansas have a five-year grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for an Outward Bound-based curriculum (www.outward-bound.org) called Expeditionary ex·pe·di·tion·ar·y adj. 1. Relating to or constituting an expedition. 2. Sent on or designed for military operations abroad: the French expeditionary force in Indochina. Adj. 1. Learning (EL). Teachers began training last summer for the new curriculum, which was instituted for the 2007-2008 school year and is expected to take five years to completely implement. The EL curriculum includes project-based experiences, called investigations, such as tagging monarch butterflies monarch butterfly Species (Danaus plexippus, family Danaidae) of milkweed butterfly, occurring worldwide but mainly in the Americas. It is the only lepidopteran species to make a true migration (a two-way flight by the same individual). , studying wild animal tracks Animal tracks are the imprints left behind in soil, snow, mud, or other ground surfaces that an animal walk across. Animal tracks are used by hunters in tracking their prey and by naturalists to identify animals living in a given area. , and creating Web pages based on the projects. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Principal Cindy Lockyear of the new Delaware Ridge Elementary School, "changes are already noticeable, from daily learning targets to classroom meetings" that now focus on team-building experiences and include collaboration, integrity, trust, quality and passion. "This program is designed to provide gifted education Gifted education is a broad term for special practices, procedures and theories used in the education of children who have been identified as gifted or talented. Programs providing such education are sometimes called Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) or for everyone," says Superintendent Robert Van March. "The lessons will involve being active, doing things, researching topics of interest, and creating products memorable in students' eyes." |
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