| Date | Document | Comments |
| 12.18.2000 | Field Guide description, version 1 | Tom's initial description of the Field Guide intervention, before meeting with teachers. Includes description of follow-up activities and schedule. |
| 12.18.2000 | Notes of meeting to discuss version 1 | Janet, Marilyn, Joanna, and Tom discuss changes to version 1. |
| 12.18.2000 | Field Guide description, version 2 | Tom hacks up a revised activity description based on the meeting. Starting to identify the standard components that ought to be in every unit that we develop, but much more work to be done. |
| 12.19.2000 | Tentative outline for January Field Guide activity | Assuming we receive our IRB approval, here's a very tentative timeline. The idea was just to get the major activities listed; I haven't really space them out in time yet very well, and we're missing some items. |
| 12.20.2000 | Empirical studies Spring 2000, version 1 | Tom's brief description of the two "threads" we'll pursue during the Spring. One thread focuses on refining the science inquiry assessment (and maybe making some claims about inquiry learning); the other is about math learning and the hypothesis that "walking the walk" makes a difference in what the kids learn. |
| 12.20.2000 | OPRS approves research protocol! | Got the news today. If we get hard copy, we'll distribute permission slips before vacation. |
| 2.7.2001 | Distributions activity description, version 1 | First-cut description of the distributions lesson. |
| 2.7.2001 | Illinois Learning Standards Goal 10 | Mathematics: data analysis & probability |
| 2.7.2001 | Illinois Learning Standards Goal 11 | Science: Inquiry & design |
| 2.7.2001 | Illinois Learning Standards Goal 12 | Science: concepts & principles |
| 2.7.2001 | Distributions 1 Meeting | Planning on doing distributions activity on Betsy's class ASAP without doing VR. |
| 2.8.2001 | Meeting at Lincoln | Joanna, Marilyn, Yongjoo, Alex, Marlynne and Tom talk about sequencing of post-VA activities |
| 2.9.2001 | Distributions 1 Meeting | Alex, Yongjoo, and Tom talk about sequencing, representations, and leading up to metrics |
| 2.12.2001 | Distributions 1 Meeting Distributions 1 Meeting #2 |
Joanna, Marlynne, Yongjoo, and Tom talk about sequencing the discussion of distributions; decide to move some of discussion to before VA exploration. |
| 2.22.2001 | Draft: Lesson 1 | The first of two lessons preceding the VR activity: comparing distributions of the same size. |
| 2.22.2001 | Draft: Lesson 2 | The second of two lessons preceding the VR activity: comparing distributions of the unequal size and motivating the exploration (USDA) |
| 2.25.2001 | Material for the first lesson |