Mattoon's Teams Project Introduction Page

Welcome
to "Mattoon's TEAMS Project"

This website was developed by Ron Ghere and Nancy Brachbill, fifth grade teachers, with the help of their students at Riddle Elementary School in Mattoon, Illinois.

It is associated with a program entitled the TEAMS Project (Technology Enhancement and Applications in Math and Science) which is a collaborative project funded by the Illinois Board of Higher Education as part of the Improving Teacher Quality Program. Through this project, the teacher teams will be engaged in formal sessions that focus on the integration of mathematics and science in their curriculum through student centered projects that incorporate the techniques of conducting environmental monitoring, species identification, data presentations and analyses, digital library inclusions, and inquiry-based investigations related to the inventories. Each team of teachers will select a habitat to monitor with their students and will utilize the technologies of GPS, hand-held computers, scientific probes, and digital cameras for this program. The concrete end product will be the production of a web-based electronic field guide, their own web page, and a series of scientifically and mathematically based research investigations that could be accessed, referenced, and expanded by not only other students, but also scientists in Illinois and the local community. The project directors are Dr. Marylin Lisowski and Dr. Robert Williams.

For more information about the TEAMS Project, visit: