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[Mark Gillespie]

Hi

As a teacher I have used the Tighar site on a number of occasions when there has been a connection to my lessons. It's great for all sorts of things: as a starter for inquiry activities, logic and reasoning, today I used it as a provocation for reading strategies...  my question is: has a page especially designed for school students been considered? I feel it would be immensely useful, and not just to US students (I teach international kids).

My apologies if this has been discussed before.

cheers
Mark

[Alfred Hendrickson]

What would be on the student page?

[Ric Gillespie]

has a page especially designed for school students been considered? I feel it would be immensely useful, and not just to US students (I teach international kids).

Thanks for raising this subject. As you have discovered, The Earhart Project is an ideal vehicle for teaching a wide range of subjects and principles - from geography, to meteorology, to mathematics, to history, to critical thinking, to the scientific method of inquiry.
Amelia Earhart is also a popular National History Day project for Middle Schoolers and doing an interview is often one of the requirements. We get dozens of requests and I always make time to do interviews with kids via email, phone, Skype, or in person.  In fact, there are two 14 year-olds scheduled to come here tomorrow to interview me.

We have long struggled to find a way to create a product that will be of value to teachers and students.  At the simplest level we could create a Students' Page on the TIGHAR website with links to a suggested selection of research bulletins, TIGHAR Tracks articles, and historical documents on the website.  (The full 20,000 page archive is pretty daunting.)
What we would really like to do is create a package of digital materials that TIGHAR could market to schools through one of the large purveyors of academic programs such as Scholastic. Something like that would serve TIGHAR's educational purpose and could be an important income stream for the organization.  If anybody out there has contacts in the business please let me know.