USC/USCA Educational Technology Program AEET/EDET 650 Internship Contract Internship Site: South Carolina Virtual School Program

1401 Senate Street, Suite 201 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 803-734-8039 Contacts: Maja Fickett Science Instructor 843-619-7081 mfickett@ed.sc.gov Michelle New 843-991-0575 pmnew@usca.edu

Context This program offers a variety of classes online to high school students that they are required to have for graduation for FREE. They can either take the classes for initial credit or for credit recovery. These students have to be enrolled in a public or private school within the state (or homeschool), and they do not receive a diploma from this program, they will just earn course credits from SCVSP. The students, however, can only take up to 3 units of credit per year with SCVSP or a total of 12 units towards their high school diploma. This program offers courses throughout several sessions including fall, spring, year long, and summer. Specifically for my internship, I plan to work with the teachers in the science department. I will help with their course redevelopment in their Physical Science course. The project available for me to help with would be taking text from an editable textbook site and using it to create interactive lessons in Soft Chalk to replace what is currently being used which is simply linking to the textbook website. Learning Goals and Objectives During the internship, I will develop and refine my skills, knowledge and ability to: Physical Science course development Creating interactive lessons in Soft Chalk program Learning to manipulate an online editable textbook site Creating a Flexbook on CK12 site Responsibilities and Tasks To achieve my objectives, I will: Take content listed in the CK-12 online Physical Science textbook, align it to the South Carolina High School Science Standards, and update the existing standards alignment document.

 Take content listed in the CK-12 online Physical Science textbook and use it to create interactive lessons in Soft Chalk for each section of material. Create a downloadable Physical Science Flexbook on the CK12 site that is completely aligned to the SC Science Standards. Deliverables To demonstrate achievement of my objectives, I will submit to my portfolio: New downloadable Physical Science textbook Soft Chalk lessons Schedule and Milestones Week September 10-14 September 17-21 September 24-28 October 1-5 October 8-12 October 15-19 October 22-26 October 29- November 2 November 5-9 November 12-16 November 19-23 Unit and/or Project 1: Introduction 2: Matter 3: Periodic Table 4: Nuclear 5: Solutions 6: Acids & Bases 7: Bonding 8: Reactions 9: Motion 10. Forces 11: Work & Energy 12: Electricity & Magnetism Details Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson *Formative Assessment Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson Formative Assessment Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson Formative Assessment Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson Create Soft Chalk lesson Formative Assessment Take material from Soft Chalk lessons and create a new FlexBook. Each unit will be a chapter in the book.

Begin working on creating downloadable textbook with all units

Week November 26-30

Unit and/or Project 13: Waves Continue work on textbook

Details Create Soft Chalk lesson Update standards alignment document. **Summative Assessment

December 3

Finish downloadable textbook

* For the formative assessments, the mentor will look over and conduct a test run of the lesson to make sure all components work and are correct. ** For the summative assessment, the mentor will review all 13 units created and ensure that all lessons are cohesive and flow together and that there are no errors.

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