"Let us think of education as the
means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a
private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for
everyone and greater strength for our nation."
- John F Kennedy
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."
- Malcolm Forbes
"The great aim of education is not
knowledge but action.
- Herbert Spencer
"The biggest gap in life is the one
between 'I wish' and 'I did'. Stop wishing and start doing."
- Tiffany Mehrmann
"The direction in which education
starts a man will determine his future life."
- Plato
"The very spring and root of
honesty and virtue lie in good education."
- Plutarch
"Education is an ornament in
prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
What ignites the
imagination and sparks motivation in a child?
There is a world
outside the classroom that can be alluring, exciting, complex and magical in the
eyes of a K-12 student. For some, the window to that world is television, books,
movies or games. How much of their experience is influenced by entertainment?
How much is their education influenced by what is meaningful and important to
them?
Motivation Education
Motivation
Education brings Teachers and Students in touch with real world applications and
environment, creating personal connections that inspire and motivate.
Students
come in direct contact with Science, Nature and Technology in an environment
that challenges and encourages them with curiosity and self-confidence. What
better way to appreciate science than to hold it in your hands and experience
it?
When students are challenged with
'hands-on' creative lessons, they enjoy learning to apply math and science in a
three dimensional "real world" setting. They learn to work out problems and
think beyond the textbook. They also practice important social skills in
supporting and assisting one another.
Field
to Classroom brings Informal Education (museums, aquariums, and community
programs) into the Formal Education experience (classroom and school).
Imagine
an environment in which K-12 students have access to educational software and
computers to build their own websites about their own academic acceleration.
http://www.fieldtoclassroom.com/camps/sa
Imagine
Software that mirrors common email and word processing applications, but
contains adjustable parental controls. Imagine the interest of a child to
incorporate their own pictures, voices and creativity in their development, and
rushing home to do homework because it "feels like a game".
http://www.toolfactory.com
What if computer programs were
not only fun and entertaining, but could also increase Math Scores 15%?
See the Results!
If
you have ever witnessed a child stare with wide eyes in awe of a shark,
jellyfish or stingray at an Aquarium, then you know how they can be fascinated
by the experience. What would happen if they could visit the Aquarium, bring the
experience back into the classroom, and actually assist in oceanographic
research with scientists studying and creating life in a reef?
Business Community
Accelerated Academic Network
ECRC is proud to offer a comprehensive set of
consultant services on how to do a practical and measurable program that will
serve as the catalyst for student acceleration. This is a proven set of goals
and objectives that can be applied to your particular location. We will bring
over 40 years of experience working in difficult environments with students that
need acceleration, not simply remediation. Please review our
BCAAN
visuals and then contact ECRC Director Bob Keddell at
bkeddell@aol.com to discuss your
particular set of circumstances and how we can apply a range of services that
will impact your educational setting.
What is Your Interest?
Attached is an
organization chart for Motivation Education TM. For more information
on how you can support these efforts, please contact the Projector Director Bob
Keddell, JHU at
bkeddell@aol.com
Triple T Website Productions provides an exciting way for a group
of participants to learn to manipulate Multimedia Lab V software in order to
develop, create and post a website of over 100 pages in less than 20 hours of
teamwork. This model has been used for the past several summers to allow ECRC
camp participants ages 7-11 to post websites and document ECRC’s Exploring
Extremes, Aqua Havens and Sailing Through History Summer Camps. It is a software
of interaction and action that turns young novices in website building from
novices to successful webmasters. It is an ACTION PACK
for success with PC computers.
AquaHavens
Aqua Havens is the theme that is meant to capture participants’
hearts in order to capture their minds. Biotype aquariums, animal husbandry, the
properties of fresh and salt water, and the human factor all are available to
the instructor to excite and motivate the learner. This theme of four ACTION
PACKS and over sixteen MOTIVATOR MAPS gives the instructor the
ability to bring to life the age-old student thought...”I want to be a marine
biologist.” Aqua Havens for Education features ECRC’s most tried
and successful set of learning maps.
Exploring Extremes
Exploring Extremes is an ECRC theme that takes participants from the
top of Mount Everest to the deepest hydrothermal ocean vents found on the bottom
of the ocean. The learning action emphasizes both the human plight in trying to
operate in these unique environments, as well as the past and present ecosystems
found there. There are seashells on Everest and worms seven miles ocean deep.
Two ACTION PACKS and twelve
MOTIVATOR MAPS in one handbook can provide the teaching background and
action for an educator to excite and motivate their students as they try to
place themselves into the world’s harshest environments.
Sailing through History
The Great Age of Sail provides the take off points
for inciting and providing the action to fuel participants’ involvement in a
rich period of world history. Actions within the three ACTION PACKS and
fifteen MOTIVATOR MAPS
place participants onboard sailing vessels crossing the Atlantic Ocean,
discovering the Pacific Ocean, passing the time at sea, dodging pirates, sinking
in a hurricane and discovering the artifacts of history as they sail through the
times at hand.
Sailing Through History promises to be an ever-expanding set of
MOTIVATOR MAPS that works to bring history to a new level of understanding.
Summer Camps
ECRC implements theme summer camps in different locations each
summer. ECRC’s six camps occurred in ECRC’s home base of Howard County, Maryland
and then in cooperation with the Smithsonian Associates of Washington D.C. Four
THEMES drew from ten ACTION PACKS and nearly 50 MOTIVATOR MAPS
to bring exciting and motivating learning to all participants. Enjoy the photo
gallery of our Summer Camps.
Remember when grandparents and
great-grandparents stated that they
only had an 8th grade education?
Well, check this out. Could any of
us have passed the 8th grade in
1895?
This is the eighth-grade final exam
from 1895 in
Salina,
Kansas,
USA.
It was taken from the original
document on file at the
Smokey
Valley
Genealogical Society and Library in
Salina,
KS,
and reprinted courtesy of the
Salina
Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam:
Salina,
KS
-1895
Grammar (Time, one hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use
of capital letters.
2. Name the parts of speech and
define those that have no
modifications.
3. Define verse, stanza and
paragraph
4. What are the principal parts
of a verb? Give principal parts
of "lie", "play" and "run."
5. Define case; Illustrate each
case.
6. What is punctuation? Give
rules for principal marks of
punctuation.
7 - 10. Write a composition of
about 150 words and show therein
that you understand the
practical use of the rules of
grammar.
Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the
Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10
feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How
many bushels of wheat will it
hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs
3942 lbs., what is it worth at
50cts/bushel, deducting 1050
lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a
valuation of $35,000.
What is
the necessary levy to carry on a
school seven months at $50 per
month, and have $104 for
incidentals?
5. Find the cost of 6720 lbs.
coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60
for 8 months and 18 days at 7
percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards
12 inches wide and 16 ft. long
at $20 per meter?
8. Find bank discount on $300
for 90 days (no grace) at 10
percent.
9. What is the cost! of a square
farm at $15 per acre, the
distance of which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a
Promissory Note, and a Receipt.
U.S.
History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which
U.S.
History is divided.
2. Give an account of the
discovery of
America
by
Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results
of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth
of the
United States.
5. Tell what you can of the
history of
Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most
prominent battles of the
Rebellion.
7. Who were the following:
Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell,
Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with
the following dates: 1607, 1620,
1800, 1849, 1865.
Orthography (Time, one hour)
1. What is meant by the
following: Alphabet, phonetic,
orthography, etymology,
syllabication
2. What are elementary sounds?
How classified?
3. What are the following, and
give examples of each: Trigraph,
subvocals, diphthong, cognate
letters, linguals
4. Give four substitutes for
caret 'u.'
5. Give two rules for spelling
words with final 'e.' Name two
exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent
letters in spelling. Illustrate
each.
7. Define the following
prefixes and use in connection
with a word:
bi, dis, mis, pre,
semi, post, non, inter, mono,
sup.
8. Mark diacritically and divide
into syllables the following,
and name the sign that indicates
the sound:
card, ball, mercy,
sir, odd, cell, rise, blood,
fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly
in sentences:
cite, site, sight,
fane, fain, feign, vane, vain,
vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently
mispronounced and indicate
pronunciation by use of
diacritical marks and by
syllabication.
Geography (Time, one hour)
1 What is climate? Upon what
does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the
extremes of climate in
Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of
what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of
North America
5. Name and describe the
following:
Monrovia, Odessa,
Denver, Manitoba, Hecla, Yukon,
St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and
Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal
trade centers of the
U.S.
7. Name all the republics of
Europe
and give the capital of each.
8. Why is the
Atlantic
Coast
colder than the Pacific in the
same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which
the water of the ocean returns
to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of
the earth. Give the inclination
of the earth.
Notice that the exam took FIVE
HOURS to complete. Gives the
saying "he only had an 8th grade
education" a whole new meaning,
doesn't it?!
Motivation
Education brings Teachers and Students in touch with real world applications and
environment, creating personal connections that inspire and motivate.
Students
come in direct contact with Science, Nature and Technology in an environment
that challenges and encourages them with curiosity and self-confidence. What
better way to appreciate science than to hold it in your hands and experience
it?
Field
to Classroom brings Informal Education (museums, aquariums, and community
programs) into the Formal Education experience (classroom and school). 
Imagine
Software that mirrors common email and word processing applications, but
contains adjustable parental controls. Imagine the interest of a child to
incorporate their own pictures, voices and creativity in their development, and
rushing home to do homework because it "feels like a game". 
If
you have ever witnessed a child stare with wide eyes in awe of a shark,
jellyfish or stingray at an Aquarium, then you know how they can be fascinated
by the experience. What would happen if they could visit the Aquarium, bring the
experience back into the classroom, and actually assist in oceanographic
research with scientists studying and creating life in a reef?
