| The cohort has designed and implemented a joint assignment between the two courses mentioned above. Groups of teacher education students in Teaching Kansas Government designed a TrackStar, a software program that enables the user to develop a guided search of the internet, on an issue before the session of the Kansas Legislature. The initial TrackStar consisted of the following components: an overview of the issue written by the teacher education students; an internet page that further introduced the high school students to the issue; internet sites that provided information in support of and in opposition to the issue; and, a site that pulled together the issue. The teacher education students also developed a set of questions for the high school students to answer about each site and a lesson plan for use by the participating high school government teachers. |
