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Student Presentation (No formal paper)

Bridging Informal Learning Centers to Classrooms:Flash Based Virtual Field Trip for Middle School Life Science Education
 * //John Paulin, Graduate Student, Educational Technology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA,// jpaulin@hawaii.edu**

The purpose of this instructional design project is to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of an instructional design module posted and delivered from an informal learning center’s educational website as a curriculum enhancement tool for teaching a biological science topic to middle school students in Hawaii. The goal is to build an instructional design module that will bridge the gap between an informal learning center and formal learning centers. A possible method to accomplish this goal is to design an instructional module as a virtual field trip to the Honolulu Zoo. The module is designed for middle school science teachers to use the module as a pre- and/or post-visit curriculum enhancement tool. The instructional module is not meant to be a substitute for classroom instruction but is meant to supplement a field trip to the Honolulu Zoo. The module will be an interactive Flash module with video, audio, and graphical objects amplifying the text and focused on the Hawaii Content and Performance Standards (HCPS) strand learning objectives.

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