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2017-2018 Digital Learning Grant Results
In 2017 MSD Decatur Township was awarded an Indiana Department of Education Digital Learning Grant. The grant funded the training of approximately 48 teachers on how to currate resources to create Open Education Resources to be used in their classrooms. The teachers receieved MacBooks in addition to the training to create their Open Education Resources in iBook Author. Below are the published books by the teachers. All books are available in the iBooks store and are free! We hope you find a topic and book that you can use. Moreover we hope you are inspired by these books to create your own Open Education Resources.
| Name | School | Grade Level | Link to iBook in Apple's iBook Store |
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Hartwyk, Huffman |
Blue | 4 |
Native American Tribes in Indiana 4th grade book covering Indiana standards on Native American Tribes |
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Hanni, Powers, Barrett, Lyons |
Blue | SPED |
This is a book for 5th grade about techniques that writers use to develop ideas for writing. |
| Schoettle, Nesbit | Blue | 3 | |
| Aimee Hawley | DCHS |
This book covers an intro to biology, including the questions of what is life and what is science. |
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| Brian Nay | DCHS |
This is a life skills book dealing with possessive nouns. |
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| Courtney Rogge | DCHS |
GeoIED is a combination of Geometry with Introduction to Engineering Design (PLTW). The course is taught as a project based course and includes six projects and three sections that are smaller problem based units. |
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| Daryl Gibbs | DCHS |
This module is our unit on promoting our community garden. |
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| Emily Blue | DCHS |
This ibook was made to pair with The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. |
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| Karen Harwood | DCHS |
This unit explores the all important foundations for geometry. |
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| Kathleen Riley | DCHS |
Part one of this book is an overview of Shakespeare's life and times. Part two is the text of Hamet. |
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| Kevin Marler | DCHS |
This iBook is intended as a handbook to accompany a high school level economics class. |
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| Nathaniel Shafer | DCHS |
The sections in this book cover rational numbers, integer operations, order of operations, rational and irrational numbers, solving equations, and expressions. |
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| Weston Heeren | DCHS |
This is a supplemental OER textbook for a High School Physics course. |
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| Elaina Gibbs | DMS | Parts of a Sentence | |
| Emily Lepore | DMS |
Constructed response strategy |
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| Erin Minnick | DMS |
This is an introductory lesson about primary source materials. |
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| Joan Tejchma | DMS |
This book is an introduction to force and motion. |
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| John Hartwyk | DMS |
https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/parts-of-a-sentence/id1385216075?ls=1&mt=13 My book is an introduction to the globe and how we track location. |
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| Rachel Johnson | DMS | 8 |
Students use the included resources to research the 10 skills that have been suggested by teachers as necessary for success for life after middle school. |
| Thomas Iliff | DMS | Scientific Method | |
| Tiffany Murray | DMS | Four Types of Nouns | |
| Dennis Massengil | DMS | Algebra 2 | |
| David Caliguiri | DMS |
In this book you will learn the basic building blocks of the grammatically correct sentence. |
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| Katie Smith | DMS |
This chapter for Algebra focuses on systems of equations and solving systems of equations. |
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| Nate Bingham | DMS |
This lesson contains content on how to properly write an effective RADDD response. |
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| Jeryn Crouch | DTSE | Geometry | |
| Laurie Sheldrake | DTSE | Integrated Chemistry and Physics | |
| Jessica Hopkins | Gold | 3 | Rocks and Minerals |
| Amy Lahrman | LEE | K |
This is an interactive book that is meant to supplement the Jack Hartmann letter sound song. |
| Mills, Nichols, Casselman | LEE | K |
This is a book for preschool and/or kindergarten students. |
| Kim Edwards | LEE | K |
Insects a Preschool Mini Theme suggests ideas for circle time activities and station time activities to do with preschool aged children about insects. |
| Christy Tapp | LEE | K |
Sight Words |
| Kellie Compton | LEE | K |
Sight Words |
| Stefanie Husejnovic | LEE | K |
Sight Words Just Like Me |
| Samantha Rutherford | SD | 6 | Writing for Purpose |
| Lisa Jaynes | SD | 4 |
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| Randi Tolentino | Tech |
A guidebook for teachers who are interested in learning more about Open Education Resources. |
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| Reed, Klotz | VM | 3 | Reading Comprehension Strategies |
| Jennifer Keller | VM | 5 | Figurative Language |
| Sarah Hoffmann | VM | Sped | Basic Phonics |
| Cesnik-kight, Hofmeister | WN | 4 | Compare and Contrast |
| Kay Washer | WN | 6 | This book was written to inform students about the different forms of plagiarism and how to recognize them. |
| Susan Keene | WN | 3 |
Learn about all the unique characteristics that bats display. |