Our goal is to design a package which would enable students/readers to understand the mechanics of home mortgaging.  Information provided covers some of the following issues (but not limited to):

Differences between loan types (subsidized vs. conventional)
Financial requirements of acquiring a mortgage
Tax advantages/disadvantages
Factors involving decision-making process
Where loans can be found
Information regarding various costs involved (ex: points, closing costs,abstracting, insurance, etc.)
Methods used to calculate payments
On-line business calculator for demonstrating the different monthlypayments with different loan amounts, interest rates, and terms.  How these numbers are determined, mathematically.

The cultural, social, political and economic milieu of the 1920s & 30s in Oklahoma is the focus of an instructional unit which will be comprised of an overview and several units which feature specific elements such as art, music, oral traditions, which we plan to  connect to the social, economic and political realities in Oklahoma.  Narrowing the time frame to the decades of the 20s and 30s  will give us a very broad selection of materials to draw upon, from the Greenwood experience, to the burgeoning Indian renaissance represented by the Kiowa 5, to the political power of those who were appointed to  dministrate the government relief and art projects, and perhaps even such phenomenon as the Medicine Park social mecca. Our vision is to provide an introduction which will point out not only the intricate connections of different aspects of our daily lives, but also the richness of the developing Oklahoma culture in the early years of this century, the acute awareness of Oklahoma's landscape and history.

Although the comprehensive theme is yet to be finalized, a couple of possibilities include (1) the images of self as reflected in music,  folklore, artwork and photography and (2)  the political realities of the relationship between Federal administration and local implementations of decisions on the national level.

 A major problem in biology courses is student understanding of the chemistry that underlies many biological mechanisms. Our goal is to create a module that explains chemical concepts, principles, and mechanisms as they relate to biological processes. It is our intent that this module be useable for a wide diversity of courses. 

The Education Group project is focused on preparing an informative, 
multimedia presentation, for administrators and reading teachers, on 
reading readiness and what children choose to read.  Emphasis on 
determining reading interest, reading attitude, and reading 
competency levels, through diagnostic assessment, will be followed by 
reading improvement strategies.

Our group project will be entitled "BAD CHARACTERS?" and will be a study of various characters, both real and fictional, throughout the ages who have been considered evil.  Students tend to perceive Richard the Lionheart as a great hero, since that is how he has been portrayed to most western generations vis-a-vis the Robin Hood legends, etc., when in fact he was a ruthless, blood-thirsty murderer of thousands of Muslims, all in the name of God and the Crusades.

Our plan is for each of us to research and write a 
biographical/historical/political/social sketch of the character and then ask open-ended questions for students to respond to, each question leading to some major thinkers' "take" on that particular aspect of "evil."  The idea is to provide students with a Socratic exploration of the nature of evil and to see how a person can be simultaneously hailed as a devil or a hero, depending upon the times, the milieu, and the audience doing the perceiving.