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Resource Material Collected By Joe

Following is a list of educational resource material collected by Joe on his bicycle trip. The material is for you to use in your classroom. Please contact David at (606) 725-4860 or at teacher@AppalachianHeritageAlliance.org to make arrangements for acquiring the material. Please return it when you are through so other teachers can have a turn.

Items will be added as Joe sends them.

Although we are targeting fourth and fifth grade students, we will gladly accommodate any classroom teacher, student, or grade level. For example, if a high school class is interested in a "hands-on", real world, lesson in journalism, marketing, web and graphic design, advertising, etc, contact us. 

Remember: Cash Prizes for best large classroom maps following Joe's big ride. All elementary schools, from anywhere, are eligible. 

$100 First Prize, $50 Second Prize, $25 Third Prize. 

Photographs

Joe's Photographs from his trip- 

Joe has taken thousands of photographs. I am currently editing and organizing them onto CD's covering individual states. If you want them sooner, I can easily make you a CD and you can edit them yourself. These would be great for: adding to your maps, using in reports on various states, using in reports on specific topics, making a slide show to post on your school website.

Telephone Conference/Speakerphone Calls

Joe is happy to call your classroom on the telephone to talk to the students and answer questions. Pam Miller's class used a speakerphone and each of the students got to ask Joe a question. It was a wonderful learning experience. To make arrangements for Joe to call your class, contact David. 

Fossil Footprints of the World

by Martin Lockley, illustrated by Judy Peterson. 120 pages. 4th grade to adult. The title says it all. For those of us who like this sort of thing, it's pretty cool.

Mount St. Helens, the story behind the scenery

by Thom Corcoran. 48 pages. Large 9x12 format. 4th grade to adult. Amazing pictures.

Mount St. Helens, the continuing story

by James P. Quiring. 48 pages. Large 9x12 format. 4th grade to adult. Mt. St. Helens area making a slow recovery. Before, after, and now photos.

Petrified Forest, the story behind the scenery

By Sidney Ash. 48 pages. Large 9x12 format. 4th grade to adult. Story, history, geology, archeology and cool pictures of the Petrified Forest in NE Arizona.

Olympic, the story behind the scenery

by Henry C. Warren. 64 pages. Large 9x12 format. 4th grade to adult. Book on Olympic National Park in Washington State. From seastacked shoreline to temperate rain forest to snow capped mountains- a truly remarkable place.

Carving a Dream, a photo history of Crazy Horse Memorial

by Robb DeWall. 60 pages. Large 9x12 format. 4th grade to adult. Mountain carving. A monument in the making. Amazing story.

First Encounters, Indian Legends of Devil's Tower

legends recounted by various Native Americans. 32 pages. 4th grade to adult. Great short stories!

Volcanoes, 101 questions

by John Calderazzo. 32 pages. 4th grade to high school. If you knew the answer to all 101 questions, you would certainly know a lot about volcanoes. Small but  informative book.

Aztec Ruins, a trail guide

National Park Service. 32 pages. Small format. 4th grade to adult. The actual trail guide for a tour of Aztec Ruins National Monument in New Mexico.

Ticket to Toltec

by Doris B. Osterwald. 128 pages. High school to adult. Everything one would want to know about the restored Cumbres and Toltec scenic narrow gauge steam powered train- a moving museum. 

Sacred Images, a vision of American rock art

by Leslie Kelen and David Sucec. 112 pages. High school to adult. A study of drawings and paintings on cliffs and rocks by early Native Americans of the Southwest. 

Canyon Country, explorer #2

by F. A. Barnes. 112 pages.  High school to adult. Study of natural wonders and recreation possibilities surrounding Moab, Utah. Includes story and pictures of our own Joe Bowen and friends water skiing behind an airplane. Black and white photos.

The Tree Army

by Stan Cohen. 180 pages. High school to adult. A pictorial history of the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1933 - 1942. This is an interesting chapter in American history.

A Biography of Sitting Bull

by Michael Crummett. 48 pages. High school to adult. The history, importance and influence of Tatanka-Iyotanka, known as Sitting Bull, in the history of the United States.

The Night the Mountain Fell, the story of the montana yellowstone Earthquake

by Edmond Christopherson. 88 pages. Middle school to adult. The story of the 1959 earthquake in the Yellowstone Park area- one of the most severe to hit the North American continent.

History of the Devil's Tower, the First National Monument

by Ray H. Mattison. 20 pages. Middle School to adult. A history of our first National Monument. It is an amazing geological formation located in Wyoming. 

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

by Mark L. Gardner for the Western National Parks Association. 24 pages. Middle school to adult. History, the major players, and the battle. Nice pictures and diagrams.

Along the Trail with Lewis and Clark

Teachers, this is a modern tourist, advertisement, travel guide. Even so, there are lots of maps and good information on the Tour of Discovery. Nice short stories followed by where you can eat and sleep. 112 pages.

Pamphlets, Brochures and Visitor's guides

Tatanka, a guide to South Dakota's Custer State Park

Canyon of the Ancients- Lowry Pueblo

Canyon of the Ancients- Painted Hand Pueblo

Canyon of the Ancients- National Monument

The Vore Buffalo Jump

Mount Rushmore

Lewis and Clark Trail

Buffalo Bill Dam (and the Shoshone Project)

Chimney Rock Archeological Area (Pagossa Springs, CO)

Four Corners

Aztec Ruins National Monument

Ute Mountain Tribal Park (Cortez, CO)

The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Black Hills Museum Alliance (South Dakota)

Black Hills Institute of Geological Research. Inc. -this pamphlet and the following ones produced by the Black Hills Institute are pretty good. Short, to the point and nice graphics.

---what is a Crinoid

---what is aTrilobite

---what is an ammonite

---what is a Fossil

---what is a Dinosaur

The City of the Presidents (Rapid City, SD, known for its bronze statues of 20, so far, presidents. We also have about a dozen post cards with pictures of individual statues.)

Arches National Park- Visitor guide

Mt. St. Helens Volcano Review 1- Visitor Guide

Mt. St. Helens Volcano Review 2 - Visitor Guide

Yellowstone Park, 2005 Visitor's guide

Mammoth Hot Springs Trail Guide (Yellowstone)

Old Faithful Area Trail Guide (Yellowstone)

Mud Volcano Trail Guide (Yellowstone)

Canyon Area Trail Guide (Yellowstone)

Grand Teton Visitors guide (commercial)

Newspapers

Navajo Times, The Newspaper of the Navajo People, Aug. 25, 2005. This offers a  perspective a bit different from our local papers'. Interesting.

Yellowstone Today- newspaper of Yellowstone National Park, Spring 2005 and Summer 2005

Park News- Grand Teton National Park

Presna Hispana, Arizona's #1 Hispanic Newspaper, 9/14/05. Newspaper for the Hispanic community. In Spanish.

Maps

Rocky Mountain National Park

Yellowstone

Discovering the Legacy of Lewis and Clark

Mesa Verde

Arches National Park

Colorado / Wyoming road map

Colorado Bicycling map

Stuff

Three pounds of mudflow, ash, soil from Mt Saint Helens Volcanic Eruption.

First account of the Custer Massacre- Reprint of front page of the Tribune Extra, Bismarck, Dakota Territories, July 6, 1876.

Teachers, for this learning opportunity to be successful, it has to work for you. It has to meet your needs and augment your curriculum. Teachers know best how to teach. Therefore, we are asking you to design the program.

After Testing is over, we will get together and discuss the educational possibilities of Joe’s adventure. I know you are too busy to concentrate on Joe’s trip at the moment, but I want to tell you about some of the ideas floating around.

Several ideas have already been implemented. Clay City Elementary has added a “Joe” page on their web site 
http://www.powell.k12.ky.us/clay/NewWeb/Ride%20with%20Joe%20Bowen.htm
 Bowen Elementary is starting a school-wide “Where in North America Is Joe” theme. Kelly Marcum and the tech teachers in Powell County have developed a list of “Expected Technology Skills Outcomes.” (See below)

One of the expected outcomes will be that the students know how to send e-mails. Along that line, our e-mail campaign to Governor Schwarzenegger is already bearing fruit. No, he has not yet agreed to meet Joe but the students who sent him an e-mail are getting an e-mail reply from him. They are pretty excited about that. I did not receive a reply so maybe its something especially for the kids. This is a tech lesson, a writing lesson and a civics lesson. Cool.

As I see it, the real “Classroom” part of the trip will begin when the kids come back to school after summer break. We can still do many educational things throughout the summer.

Here are some ideas I have collected, mostly from you all. Some are things that teachers have said they are going to do. Some are basic to the format. Many fall into the category of, “wouldn’t it be great if someone did….” Those are available for claiming.

1. Tracking Joe on a classroom map by following “Where’s Joe?” on the website.

2. Joe’s narratives and pictures of places he has visited.

3. Adding curriculum based questions to the narrative (science, geography, history, math, social studies, health, arts and humanities, science.) These questions need to be specific to things you want your kids to know. We will work it into the narrative and make it applicable to a real-world situation.

4. Expected Technology Outcomes. Things the students will have to know in order to participate in this on-line adventure. The tech potential for this project is unbelievable. There will be some really cool spin-offs.

5. Nationwide Treasure Hunt

6. Quest for Knowledge Game

7. “Where I’m From” Poems. These will take on added consequence when we start making connections to other schools across the country.

8. GPS Mapping. When our budget allows, we will get Joe a Global Positioning device. The one he needs, including the accessories, is about $900. If we can get this to him while Cliff Cantrell is still riding with him then Cliff can teach Joe how to use it. Otherwise, it won’t happen. This could be a really cool educational tool.

9. US and world map showing where participating schools are located. (We have already picked up a school in Thailand.)

10. Appalachian music. (Carmen Billings)

11. Traveling Box of Appalachian Artifacts.

12. Student weather predicting with verification by Joe. (Becky Roach)

13. State by State student created Travel Brochures (Pam Miller)

14. School Links: list of participating schools and homepages, School to School projects, links to school and individual classroom projects.

15. Major link to schools providing a particular service to the overall project. This could include collecting news stories about Joe (there were approximately 25 on his KY Warm-Up trip and he is averaging one a day on the big ride), archiving his pictures (also, it would be a wonderful project if a school did a “Picture A Day” collection of the trip. Just a single picture a day. By trip’s end, it would be a fantastic story.)

16. Whatever and wherever your educational imagination takes you. Joe wants to work for you and your students. So make him work! He will do what you need him to do to help your project.

 Powell County Schools

Modified Technology Curriculum for Joe Bowen Project

2005-2006

The following technology guidelines are part of the Powell County School Technology Curriculum and are intended for 4^th/5^th grade teachers as they participate in the Joe Bowen Rediscover America Project.  TRTs in the district will work with classroom teachers to include Joe’s online course for students into their curriculum.  As this takes place, there will be opportunities for students to become proficient in various technological skills.  This is simply a guideline for teachers and TRTs; we recognize that there will be numerous other skills involved throughout the project. 

The standards below are based on a National Educational Standards for Students Project as set forth by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education.

The standards are divided into six broad categories as listed below:

.1. Basic operations and concepts
    -Students demonstrate a sound understanding of the nature and operation of technology systems.
    -Students are proficient in the use of technology.

2. Social, Ethical, and Human Issues
    -Students understand the ethical, cultural, and societal issues related to technology.
    -Students practice responsible use of technology systems, information, and software.

    -Students develop positive attitudes toward technology uses that support lifelong learning, collaboration, personal pursuits and productivity.

3.  Technology Productivity Tools

    -Students use technology tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity.
    -Students use productivity tools to collaborate in constructing technology-enhanced models, prepare         publications and product other creative works.

4. Technology Communications Tools
    -Students use telecommunications to collaborate, publish, and interact with peers, experts, and other audiences.
    -Students use a variety of media and formats to communicate information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.                                                                                                                                                                             

5. Technology Research Tools
    -Students use technology to locate, evaluate, and collect information from a variety of sources.

    -Students use technology tools to process data and report results.
    -Students evaluate and select new information resources and technological innovations based on the appropriateness for specific tasks.

6. Technology problem-solving and decision-making tools
    -Students use technology resources for solving problems and making informed decisions.
    -Students employ technology in the development of strategies for solving problems in the real world.

Powell County Schools

Student Technology Standards and Skills– Fourth/Fifth Grade

Original Posting 

Following is a list of what we have to work with: An Eastern Kentuckian named Joe Bowen who is going to ride across America with a laptop computer. A web page. Help from the Appalachian Heritage Alliance. Help from Berea College Department of Education. Resources of the UK Appalachian Center. A lot of smart, local teachers.

The following potential scenario has developed from phone conversations with teachers and principals. Please add your thoughts. Remember that this is OUR Project. The story is about an Eastern Kentuckian coming home to Eastern Kentucky and telling stories to Eastern Kentucky kids. The focus is on us. However, people all over the country, and even the world, are going to be interested.

Please, please, please add your suggestions and comments to the following list. This is to make the program work for you.

1) At least once a week Joe will upload to the web page several pictures of interesting places he has visited . He will include several paragraphs (how many is appropriate for fourth and fifth graders?) of dialogue and descriptions.

2) We could then pose (how many?) questions for the students to answer. These questions could refer to the actual place visited- such as literature questions when he visits Jack London's Museum- or math questions (we have mileage, altitude, money, and no doubt lots more, to work with.) Or Social Studies. Or History or Science or Geography. Do we need a set format? One question linked to each discipline? Whatever you think.

3) A weekly discussion question.

4) Charting Joe's progress on large classroom maps.

5) Establishing links to other schools along the way. For example: Our Mountain students send pictures of trees and waterfalls to the Desert students, who send back pictures of, well, whatever they think is appropriate to represent their region.

6) Ms Marcum, Technology at Powell County, recited a whole list of tech related possibilities and expected outcomes. So the tech people need to share ideas and organize that. We have a real-world, technology based, hands-on learning experience to work with.

7) Some sort of long-range Treasure Hunt with Joe picking up clues along the way.

8) Students e-mailing Joe with specific questions and letters of encouragement.

9) The Kentucky Department of Tourism wants to do a "Where's Waldo (Joe)" type of game on their web site and link to ours.

10) Please add to this list and suggest a workable format. Call me, David Musser, at 606 725-4860 or e-mail at David@AppalachianHeritageAlliance.org. I know you are busy so I will do the work. Just tell me what you want.

Following is an Preliminary Overview provided by Brannin Musser, from Wolfe County. It is a rough draft and is open to your suggestions.