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Our Team:	Len wo from beautiful Kosrae! The Kosrae Pacific Voices team leader, Lipton Tilfas from Sansrik Elementary School, Kosrae DOE Science Specialist, Tulensru Waguk, and Pacific Voices trainer, Lillian Segal headed over to Utwe for a week to work with Utwe Elementary School teachers, Eldon Joseph, Larry Alik, Patrick Benjamin, Roland Andrew, Rosina Joseph and Vernet Waguk on a book making project about the "I" tree ("Indian Mulberry" or "Noni" in Hawaiian) for beginning Kosraean readers. Some of the team members mentioned above, along with Fraizer Albert of Tafunsak School, Lydon Sigrah of Sansrik School, Sunia Arson of Malem School and Tara Tara of Kosrae High School also had fun producing iMovie projects. See their projects below!

Our Projects:
Sak I Book	Sak I, more commonly known as the Indian Mulberry tree is a very important medicinal tree in Kosrae. All parts of the tree are used, from the green and ripe leaves and fruit to the bark and roots for preventitive medicine as well as to treat various ailments such as toothaches to aiding women with childbirth. Teachers thought about some of their classroom needs such as reading books in the vernacular language with science and cultural content and came up with the book below. They decided on a topic and worked together to map out their pages, draw the images they needed and get them scanned onto the computer. The images were then inserted into Powerpoint and text was added. Each slide printed out as one page. The pages were laminated to make them more durable and a hole puncher was used to make openings for yarn to hold the pages together. The end result was this sweet and simple reading book that even students will have fun making and reading!
*Natural Colors*	Using natural colors is a creative and inexpensive way to get students exploring nature and while also having a lot of fun learning! Charcoal was used to produce black, mangrove seeds to make yellow, annato seeds for red, clay for brown and tangerine peels for green. The natural colors were used to draw a rainbow then cut into different patterns and arranged to shape a plant.
*Utwe School Fair*	The Utwe School Fair was a big success as students, teachers, staff, parents and community members came together to produce and sell arts and crafts, vegetables, lunch plates and many other local favorites in addition to putting on a variety show later in the evening to raise funds for the school's track and field day and graduation.
*Toad Dissection How To*	Biology High School teacher, Tara Tara, needed some visual aid to help prepare his biology students on a "how to" dissection lesson. Kosrae doesn't have frogs, but there are plenty of toads so with the help of his team members, some sharp tools and a USB microscope that connected to the computer and took magnified snapshots of the subject matter, a movie was produced on how to dissect a toad.

Kosrae

Our Team:

Len wo from beautiful Kosrae! The Kosrae Pacific Voices team leader, Lipton Tilfas from Sansrik Elementary School, Kosrae DOE Science Specialist, Tulensru Waguk, and Pacific Voices trainer, Lillian Segal headed over to Utwe for a week to work with Utwe Elementary School teachers, Eldon Joseph, Larry Alik, Patrick Benjamin, Roland Andrew, Rosina Joseph and Vernet Waguk on a book making project about the "I" tree ("Indian Mulberry" or "Noni" in Hawaiian) for beginning Kosraean readers.

Some of the team members mentioned above, along with Fraizer Albert of Tafunsak School, Lydon Sigrah of Sansrik School, Sunia Arson of Malem School and Tara Tara of Kosrae High School also had fun producing iMovie projects.

See their projects below!

Our Projects:

Sak I Book

Sak I, more commonly known as the Indian Mulberry tree is a very important medicinal tree in Kosrae. All parts of the tree are used, from the green and ripe leaves and fruit to the bark and roots for preventitive medicine as well as to treat various ailments such as toothaches to aiding women with childbirth.

Teachers thought about some of their classroom needs such as reading books in the vernacular language with science and cultural content and came up with the book below. They decided on a topic and worked together to map out their pages, draw the images they needed and get them scanned onto the computer. The images were then inserted into Powerpoint and text was added. Each slide printed out as one page. The pages were laminated to make them more durable and a hole puncher was used to make openings for yarn to hold the pages together. The end result was this sweet and simple reading book that even students will have fun making and reading!

Natural Colors

Using natural colors is a creative and inexpensive way to get students exploring nature and while also having a lot of fun learning! Charcoal was used to produce black, mangrove seeds to make yellow, annato seeds for red, clay for brown and tangerine peels for green. The natural colors were used to draw a rainbow then cut into different patterns and arranged to shape a plant.

Utwe School Fair

The Utwe School Fair was a big success as students, teachers, staff, parents and community members came together to produce and sell arts and crafts, vegetables, lunch plates and many other local favorites in addition to putting on a variety show later in the evening to raise funds for the school's track and field day and graduation.

Toad Dissection How To

Biology High School teacher, Tara Tara, needed some visual aid to help prepare his biology students on a "how to" dissection lesson. Kosrae doesn't have frogs, but there are plenty of toads so with the help of his team members, some sharp tools and a USB microscope that connected to the computer and took magnified snapshots of the subject matter, a movie was produced on how to dissect a toad.