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**Using Technology with Native Students ** ======

**Written by:** // Deana Dugi, Shonto Preparatory School Vikki Tomas, STAR School Nancy Kastning, Shonto Preparatory School //

//Shonto Prep School students enjoyed researching information about the planets on the internet. We used an on-line// Solar [|System Calculator] //to do a scale model of the distance between planets and relative planet sizes. Then we went to the football field and every student went to the place where the planets would be. Here is the photograph. When the sun is 10 foot high, Pluto is clear at the other end of the field.// Fifth and Sixth grade students from STAR school created a plant fieldguide. They took digital photographs and enhanced them, and are researching about Navajo uses of plants. This is a hands-on activity which combines technology with culture and language. The students have to include pictures, scanned artwork, research, and graphic design to complete the project. Check [|SaltBush.rtf] for some student work on this project.  Quotes from other 08-09 NATICC Coaches from Ezines Discussion Board
 * Students are usually not very talkative or speak up during class discussion, set up students to play with smartboard exploration helps students become vocal - Kim Gonazales
 * Using podcast to encouage students to use voice to express themselves without having to get up in front of the room and talk spontaneously - Nancy Kastning
 * Smartboard simulations of animal dissections for science honors Navajo cultural boundaries - Steve Sartain

Responses to Quotes: One way to be able to have live dissections is if the animal is if students can visit a Navajo family while they are slaughtering and butchering a sheep. Students can then identify the organs of the sheep and take small samples to look at under the microscope without crossing cultural boundaries. As long as the animal is being eaten it is all right to examine the internal organs.  // **Useful Websites** [|Native American Strategies] on Literacy Net Technology in Science [|lesson plans] //