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James Edward Clark
8142 East 6th Street ~ Tucson, Arizona, 85710 ~ United States of America
Home Phone (520)-722-7082 ~ Email [email protected]

P E R S O N A L
I am a recent graduate of college looking for a career in teaching. I believe I am a positive influence for students and committed to invest my time into student growth and development.

E D U C A T I O N
High School Diploma, Ray High School, 1987
Associate of Arts, Northland Pioneer College, May 2000
Bachelor of Science in Education, Northern Arizona University, Dec. 2002

E M P L O Y M E N T
Electrician, Complete Electric 1998- 2000 I worked as an electrician to help put me through school at Northland Pioneer College. My skills increased and I worked by completely wiring new houses and old houses as needed. I also installed ceiling fans, light fixtures, switches, receptacles, and breakers w/ panel and worked with the phone wiring/ troubleshooting. I finished working at Complete Electric when we moved to Tucson.

Pool Technician, Crown Pools 2000- Current
To help move me through school at Northern Arizona University, I worked at Crown pools. The skills I brought and use are to include: pool pump repair and installation; Pool filter repair and installation; Pool tile repair and installation; electrical; plumbing etc. of pools as needed.

C O M P U T E R S K I L L S
I worked with both IBM and Mac computers. Extensive knowledge in all windows applications i.e. 95, 98, 2000, NT, etc. Worked with Some Software including Power Point, Works and Word operations, Microsoft Excel, Access, Publisher and programming methods. Also have knowledge in some repair and finding computer problems. Furthermore I have Knowledge in the use of the Internet for its use for research and school tools. My experience in computers started about 12 years ago and continuing to learn.

I N T E R E S T S & A C T I V I T I E S
I love to watch and coach football and have been coaching youth football for several years. I also play tennis and maybe interested in coaching and teaching tennis one day.

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Lesson Plan

Solar System on Distance scale

Purpose / Goal and / or Behavior Objectives:

5th graders will relate and model the distance between the planets by placing their clay models out in the recess yard to show distance to scale by the end of class.Must use research and computer skills to find scale distances of planets.

Pre-Assessment:
Must know basic aspects of planets and solar system.

Anticipatory Set: Yesterday we made models of planets; today we will see how far, to scale, they are away from each other using astronomical units.

Materials:
Clay models
Meter or yardstick
Table of astronomical units

Specific Objectives:
Understand astronomical units and distance between planets.

Procedures:

1. Anticipatory set
2. Explain what a astronomical unit is. (Average distance between sun and earth).
3. Computer lab to find scale of planets.
4. Have students take clay models outside and start at one end of playground.
5.. Place mercury at 4 inches or centimeters, depending on what you want to use, away from the sun model.
6. Continue with all planets.
7. Have students stand by the planets to see the relationship in distance between planets.
8.. After all planets, gather all students, discuss what has happened. Have them compare and think of the scale of all planets.
9. Gather all materials and go inside.
10. Discuss lesson and opinion of it.

Evaluation:
I will assess them by their involvement in lesson. Mark down who hasn’t participated properly.

Remediation: Peers and peer group first will try to help understand concepts. One on with teacher to help student(s) who have problems understanding.

Enrichment:
Have students to scale other stars or moons, asteroids belt.

Assessing the Lesson:
See procedure 9.

Pluto

Neptune

Uranus

Saturn

Jupiter

Mars
Earth
Venus
Mercury
Sun

Closure:
Close with discussion on unit so far and tomorrows lesson.

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Virtual Library

A link to the NAU library at the Cline Library. Flagstaff, AZ - http://www.arizona.edu/shared/libraries.shtml#libraries
A link to the ASU library (main campus) - http://www.asu.edu/lib/
A link to the U of A library - http://www.nau.edu/library/
A link to articles about telecommunication crimes - http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/html/cpu-cri.htm
A link to Assistive technology in the K-12 classroom - http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~adorich/index.htm
A link to articles about copyright laws - http://www.fplc.edu/tfield/copynet.htm
A link to articles about freedom of speech via the Internet - http://www.ciec.org/
A link to technology in the curriculum - http://edweb.gsn.org/stories.intro.html
Lesson plans, general teaching sites and tools to aidin teaching. http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_digests/index

http://www.usgs.gov/ Excellent science lesson plans http://www.edhelper.com/
Crosswords, Math Sheets, Reading Lessons http://www.abcteach.com/
Printable worksheets for student teachers http://www.ed.gov/
U.S. Department of Education. http://www.pbs.org/kcet/publicschool/
You can explore the American Public Education System.http://www.edgate.com/
Internet for research.http://www.mhln.com/
Offers educational help for teachers, students, and parents regarding student progress.http://www.innovativeclassroom.com/
http://www.middleschool.net/

A website built by teachers for teachers.http://dnie.com/
This website offers weekly lesson plans intended for using newspapers and other public information periodicals for educational purposes.http://www.proteacher.com/
This site offers interaction for the student and teacher. Teachers can communicate with one another to generate ideas for their classroom in Social Study, Math etc. Parents can voice their opinions and visit with other parents, teachers, and children. Students can get extra help on homework.http://www.dogpile.com
This search engine is grea When you find the right words, you can search over 300,000,000 search engines at one time. This site has been a big help with every class that I needed to find information quick and fast.http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

It has great lesson Science plans for teachers and parents.http://dir.lycos.com/Reference/Education/

Answers any question about education.http://www.education-world.com/
Lots of info. for teachers to use http://www.educationindex.com/
Annotated guide to the best links on the web for educators.http://wwww.google.com Search engine

EVENING CLASS
This is a link to an introduction for a thematic unitshowing what would be involved to colonize Mars. It is targeted for 5th and 6th graders http://www.alternative parenting.com/lesson_plans/K_through_3/science_nature/dinosaurs.htm

Easy to create, Easy to update websites for Educators. teacherweb.com/

This article described the bodies of the solar system. http://www.lessonplanspage.com/ScienceSSMars1IntroSolar56.htm

Other Web sites for teachers
http://www.abcteach.com/
http://www.lessonplans.com/
http://www.historychannel.com/tdih/index.html
http://www.discovery.com/stories/science/sciencetitanic/sciencetitanic.html
http://www.scholastic.com/index.asp
http://www.abcteach.com/Portfolios/portfolioTOC.htm
http://www.siteforteachers.com/search.cgi?c=computers&sp=internet
www.teachnet.com/lesson.html
http://www.crayola.com/index.cfm
http://www.gamekids.com/
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/
http://www.proteacher.com/030000.shtml

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Projects

Projects that I did for Mrs.Susan K. Jahns Class at NAU in ETC 447 Technology in the Classroom include the following:

Copy/Paste

We learned Copy different documents and either import them are transfer them to a different place and then paste them. I thought that this copy paste lesson was rather simple to use and can be done at any level of teaching.

Self Portrait

We learned to use the microsoft Paint program to make a self portrait and then copy anbd paste that portrait to Word and write a essay about ourselves. This lesson was interesting in that itcan definitly be used in the classroom to learn about your students. The level of learning this has to be I would think no lower that 3rd grade.

Newsletter

In the newsletter lesson we used word and made a two column newsletter using different fonts shapes colors. Use ful to students who are interested in make a newspaper of sort.

Gradebook

Using Microsoft Excel we created a gradebook that met several criteria. Includes grades, percentages, averages etc...
Can be useful to a teacher who does not have software that can do this for them rather they can make it themselves. See below:

Database

We created a database using 10 students. With Microsoft Access we had their names, address, parents birthday and so on in the data base. This too would be helpful to the teacher to help either find info on a particular student or to print out info on all and/or compare.

Storyboard

Using the toolbar of Microsoft Word we made a cartoon in six boxes. This was to help us learn how to use the drawing toolbar to our advantage. I thought it was rather tedious work but it got the point of learning it acroos which was there are other things on Word we can use besides the keyboard.

Powerpoint

In poewrpoint we created an instructional presentation. We had sounds, images, menu slides, graghics, foward and back and home buttons. I loved playing with this software. It was fun to do. The only thing we had [problems with is saving it and taking it to another computer.

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Dallas Cowboys Football

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