2014 Russian Student Program

General Information

• STARTALK Student Program Flyer (PDF)
• Russian 499 Student Program Syllabus
• Russian STARTALK 2014 Student Program Curriculum

Example Lesson Plans:

• July 22, 2014 - STEM: Building a Mars Rover
• July 28, 2014 - Communication Warm-Up: What Makes a Good Essay
• July 28, 2014 - STEM: Writing an Essay about Mars Exploration
• July 29, 2014 - Communication Warm-Up: How to Read a GraphPPT Handout (Eng)   |   Class Handout (Russ)
• July 29, 2014 - STEM: Evolution of Stars
• July 30, 2014 - Communication Warm-Up: How to Introduce Yourself and Others
• July 30, 2014 - STEM: Model of the Solar System in Scale
• July 30, 2014 - STEM: Evolution of Ideas of the Universe Structure

Elective Projects:

Students had the opportunity to choose to participate in one of three elective projects during the afternoon STARTALK Sessions.

• Historical Project "Russia in the 20th Century"
• Unit Plan
• Lesson July 28, 2014 - The Bolshevik Revolution and Civil War
• Lesson July 29, 2014 - NEP and the Rise of Stalin
• Lesson July 30, 2014 - Soviet Union in the Late 1930's and Beginning of WWII

• Linguistic Project
  • Unit Plan
  • Lesson Plan July 28, 2014 - Dictionaries as a Research Tool: Russian and English Online Dictionaries
  • Lesson Plan July 29, 2014 - Dictionary as a Research Tool: Field Trip to the UW Library
  • Lesson Plan July 30, 2014 - National Corpora of Russian Language as a Linguistic Tool

• Lego Robotics Project
  • Unit Plan
  • Lesson Plan July 28, 2014 - The Main Ideas of Robotic Software
  • Lesson Plan July 29, 2014 - Creating LEGO-Robot which can Solve Target Goal of Team Project
  • Lesson Plan July 30, 2014 - Studying of EV3 Software for LEGO Rover Control

Museum of Flight:

Students had two field trips to the Museum of Flight to participate in the Voyage to Mars simulation in the Challenger Learning Center and Aviator for a Day in the Aviation Learning Center. For their final afternoon, they took a self-guided tour of the Museum in pairs with a camera and recorded their impressions of exhibits in the museum.

• Museum of Flight in the Eyes of Students