Contract Closed

The Between the Lions Digital Den

NCER

Program: Small Business Innovation Research

Award amount: $99,974

Project director: Daniel Shanahan

Awardee:

Sirius Thinking, Ltd.

Year: 2006

Award period: 6 months (06/15/2006 - 12/15/2006)

Project type:

Phase I Development

Contract number: ED06PO0911

Purpose

Phase I Project

In this project, researchers iteratively developed and studied the Between the Lions Digital Den, an intervention for kindergarten and first-grade English- and Spanish-speaking students aimed to improve students' literacy through computer-based software that had word games, songs, music videos, interactive stories, and an audio/visual dictionary.