Our fall programs are now posted and registration is open! For full program descriptions, please go to: http://www.magpi.net/programs/. Here are a few of our October and November opportunities… unless noted, programs require MAGPI connectivity and H.323 videoconferencing capabilities.
STUDENT PROGRAMS
Brain Awareness: What is Neuroscience? (Grades 6-8)
October-November 2008
A project from the University of Scranton! Neuroscience is an important and vibrant area of science that is quickly expanding, yet many, especially our youth, have no awareness of it. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and nervous system. Answers are being sought for questions such as: What is the mind? Why do we feel emotions? How do we learn and remember? What are the underlying causes of neurological disorders? Through this interactive program your students can learn more about the fascinating world of neuroscience! More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/neuroscience.html
A project from the University of Scranton! Neuroscience is an important and vibrant area of science that is quickly expanding, yet many, especially our youth, have no awareness of it. Neuroscience is the study of the brain and nervous system. Answers are being sought for questions such as: What is the mind? Why do we feel emotions? How do we learn and remember? What are the underlying causes of neurological disorders? Through this interactive program your students can learn more about the fascinating world of neuroscience! More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/neuroscience.html
Creative Minds: Michele MackHenry Fickle’s Mysterious Puzzle Contest
Date: Friday, December 19, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: 3-5
Join this challenging, educational and mind-stimulating event! Virtually meet new children's book author, Michele Mack, and talk about her debut novel Henry Fickle and the Secret Laboratory (the first novel in a three volume series). She will share her inspirational tale of how the book idea just 'popped' into her head, fully-formed, at exactly 3 a.m. There will be plenty of time for students' to ask questions. Prior to the videoconference, students will be sent on a puzzling journey through the book Henry Fickle and the Secret Laboratory. At the end of the videoconference, the answer to Henry Fickle's riddle will be revealed.... but only to those classes who sign up and participate in this fundiferous event! More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/mack.html
Date: Friday, December 19, 2008
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: 3-5
Join this challenging, educational and mind-stimulating event! Virtually meet new children's book author, Michele Mack, and talk about her debut novel Henry Fickle and the Secret Laboratory (the first novel in a three volume series). She will share her inspirational tale of how the book idea just 'popped' into her head, fully-formed, at exactly 3 a.m. There will be plenty of time for students' to ask questions. Prior to the videoconference, students will be sent on a puzzling journey through the book Henry Fickle and the Secret Laboratory. At the end of the videoconference, the answer to Henry Fickle's riddle will be revealed.... but only to those classes who sign up and participate in this fundiferous event! More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/mack.html
Creative Minds: Mary Quattlebaum (Grades 3-5)
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: 3-5
I haiku. Can you? Join us for an engaging presentation about poetry and the book-making process! Award-winning author Mary Quattlebaum will lead students in a discussion of poetry, using her book of poems, Family Reunion, and sports poems, shaped poems, and others to focus on rhythm, sound, and other poetic elements. Students will write a haiku and talk with Mary about their process. More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/quattlebaum.html
Date: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: 3-5
I haiku. Can you? Join us for an engaging presentation about poetry and the book-making process! Award-winning author Mary Quattlebaum will lead students in a discussion of poetry, using her book of poems, Family Reunion, and sports poems, shaped poems, and others to focus on rhythm, sound, and other poetic elements. Students will write a haiku and talk with Mary about their process. More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/quattlebaum.html
Digital Flat Stanley ProjectFor students in Grades K-2 * Open to National Participation
What happens when a normal boy finds himself flattened by a bulletin board and is sent through the mail to places all across the country? Your students can find out during this fun project, based on the 1964 book written by Jeff Brown! Classes across the country will participate in this project and send their Flat Stanleys around the USA to visit different students. Every month, one school’s Flat Stanley will visit another partner school. Students will take their new flat friend on different adventures near their school and record the adventures in a journal. At the end of each journey, partner schools will meet via videoconference for 30 minutes to greet one another, discuss their hometown and experiences with their flat friends. At the end of the project, Flat Stanley will have visited 4 places and - - and so will your students! More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/flatstanley.html
Famous Americans
Date: November 5, 2008
Times: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
Grade Levels: 2-3
Have your students explore American History as they research and portray famous Americans as part of this engaging, interactive videoconference! Each participating class will give three "60 second" presentations about three different famous Americans. Snapshots should include pertinent facts about the famous American - - and the student representing the famous American should be dressed like the person they are portraying. After the presentations, there will be a 5 minute "reflection period" where teachers can facilitate classroom discussion and students can deduce which famous Americans were being portrayed. More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/famousamericans.html
Date: November 5, 2008
Times: 1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET
Grade Levels: 2-3
Have your students explore American History as they research and portray famous Americans as part of this engaging, interactive videoconference! Each participating class will give three "60 second" presentations about three different famous Americans. Snapshots should include pertinent facts about the famous American - - and the student representing the famous American should be dressed like the person they are portraying. After the presentations, there will be a 5 minute "reflection period" where teachers can facilitate classroom discussion and students can deduce which famous Americans were being portrayed. More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/famousamericans.html
Mask Making (Grades K-8)
Date: October 31, 2008
Times/Grade Levels:
Grades 6-8: 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. ETGrades K-2: 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET Grades 3-5: 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. ET
Cost: Free!
Celebrate Halloween with this exciting new workshop! After an ADHK artist demonstrates archetypes and the triangle of communication (which is the relation of the hands and the mask while acting), participants put ideas into practice themselves using masks and costumes hand-painted by Alan Bell, ADHK’s artistic director. Participants then make their own masks and continue to practice the movements learned. They are encouraged to use their imaginations, observations, memories and interests while making their masks. ADHK artists will assist participants where needed.
Date: October 31, 2008
Times/Grade Levels:
Grades 6-8: 9:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. ETGrades K-2: 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET Grades 3-5: 1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. ET
Cost: Free!
Celebrate Halloween with this exciting new workshop! After an ADHK artist demonstrates archetypes and the triangle of communication (which is the relation of the hands and the mask while acting), participants put ideas into practice themselves using masks and costumes hand-painted by Alan Bell, ADHK’s artistic director. Participants then make their own masks and continue to practice the movements learned. They are encouraged to use their imaginations, observations, memories and interests while making their masks. ADHK artists will assist participants where needed.
Masks and Movement (Grades K-8)
Date: November 11 , 2008
Times/Grade Levels:
Grades K-2: 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. ETGrades 3-5: 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ETGrades 6-8: 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET
Participants are shown a series of painted masks in various emotions and asked to pick the mask that attracts their attention. Each is given the opportunity to manifest the emotion that the mask embodies, which becomes a revelation of invisible feelings. The communication as each participant reveals their issue of feeling bonds the group into a new relationship. The exercise teaches how to objectify a subjective emotion and attain an art form and communication with peers. Participants’ differences are brought into harmonious relativity. This project is brought to you by ArcheDream.
Date: November 11 , 2008
Times/Grade Levels:
Grades K-2: 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. ETGrades 3-5: 11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ETGrades 6-8: 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. ET
Participants are shown a series of painted masks in various emotions and asked to pick the mask that attracts their attention. Each is given the opportunity to manifest the emotion that the mask embodies, which becomes a revelation of invisible feelings. The communication as each participant reveals their issue of feeling bonds the group into a new relationship. The exercise teaches how to objectify a subjective emotion and attain an art form and communication with peers. Participants’ differences are brought into harmonious relativity. This project is brought to you by ArcheDream.
Storytime with Katherine Ayres (Grades PreK-1)
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Time: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: Pre-K thru 1
Katherine Ayres brings the 2008 Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child title, Up, Down and Around, to the classroom. The author will present the story and several songs and activities to children in PreK through grade 1. Included in the program--a reading of the book by the author, some fun with bugs, a story about sugar peas and a fingerplay about peas, a chance for children to vote for favorite veggies, and 4-5 songs about vegetables and how they grow. Ayres will also talk about how she creates her stories, both the where the content comes from and how she likes to play with language. And how children can begin to create their own stories--about things they enjoy. More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/ayres.html
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Heather Weisse Walsh
Applications Coordinator
MAGPI
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 233A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Email: hweisse@magpi.net
Phone: 215-573-6417
www.magpi.net
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008
Time: 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. ET
Target Grade Levels: Pre-K thru 1
Katherine Ayres brings the 2008 Pennsylvania One Book, Every Young Child title, Up, Down and Around, to the classroom. The author will present the story and several songs and activities to children in PreK through grade 1. Included in the program--a reading of the book by the author, some fun with bugs, a story about sugar peas and a fingerplay about peas, a chance for children to vote for favorite veggies, and 4-5 songs about vegetables and how they grow. Ayres will also talk about how she creates her stories, both the where the content comes from and how she likes to play with language. And how children can begin to create their own stories--about things they enjoy. More information: http://www.magpi.net/programs/ayres.html
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Heather Weisse Walsh
Applications Coordinator
MAGPI
3401 Walnut Street, Suite 233A
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228
Email: hweisse@magpi.net
Phone: 215-573-6417
www.magpi.net