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Goal

1 - Students will increase their knowledge about the various colleges and universities across the country.
2 - Students will increase US geography skills.
3 - Students will learn how to catalog and record incoming materials.
4 - Students will create a "school store" where they will sell to the entire student body the items received from colleges and universities.
5 - Students will develop math skills specific to money as they collect sales funds then deposit them with bookkeeper.
6 - Students will increase writing proficiency at the start of the project when they write to the colleges and universities and throughout the project when they report on the materials received and from which colleges and universities that responded. 

 

What will be done with my students

Students will send post cards to 600 US colleges and universities asking for information and promotional materials from their institutions. it is projected that students will receive not only informational brochures but also t-shirts, pennants, and a host of other promotional items. All print materials received will be cataloged by state and placed in binders. This information will be made available to all students seeking information on various colleges and universities. All promotional items received will be put up for sale to the entire student body. This will be an opportunity for students to showoff their interests in various universities as well as be a fund raiser for the EBD unit. 

 

Benefits to my students

This project will be carried out by students in our EBD (emotional / behavior disorders) unit. These students learn better when participating in hands-on projects. All aspects of this project will require students to be physically engaged in the activities. Skills to be worked on include but are not limited to:
* creating mailing labels - mail merge - technology
* writing the content of each post card
* pin pointing geographic location of responding
universities
* cataloging print materials alphabetically and by state
* completing district paperwork to collect funds
* marketing the nonprint items to be sold
* demonstrate customer service skills as they try to sell
items.
* collecting then depositing monies collected
* responding to writing prompts about the colleges that
responded and the project as a whole
* Collaborating with peers to determine how the funds are
spent.
 

 

Budget Narrative

This is a minimal expense for a project that will touch upon a varied number of skills from writing to geography to math. 

 

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