2008 Spring Innovative Classroom Grants Awarded
Rosewater Award Books
Penn High School – Grade 9
Mary Kizer, PHS Media Specialist
Total Project Budget: $1,400 — Amount Requested: $1,000 — Amount Funded:
$1,000
This grant will allow students to participate in a
program called the Eliot Rosewater Award by providing
funding to purchase a large number of duplicate copies
of 20 high quality young adult books chosen by a
statewide committee. The project promotes academic
excellence by encouraging student to read for fun and
instill a love of reading that will in turn improve test
scores.
Adding a New Dimension to Science
Penn High School – Grades 10 - 12
Diane Bowersox, Chemistry Teacher
Total Project Budget: $697.68 — Amount Requested:
$697.68 — Amount Funded: $697.68
This grant would purchase 38 books entitles
The Story of
Science Einstein Adds a New Dimension for us as
supplemental reading in the first year Chemistry course
at Penn High School. Highly readable to anyone in middle
school and beyond, the book is exceptionally engaging
and captivating. It will be used in 50 25-minue reading,
writing and discussion periods spreading throughout the
school year.
Multisensory Genres
Moran Elementary School – 2nd Grade
Alecia Conrad, Teacher
Total Project Budget: $661.36 — Amount Requested:
$661.36 — Amount Funded: $661.36
This grant will provide 8 sets of specific readers for
second graders. The types are fantasy, original
fairy-tales, drama, myths, fables, legends, and science
fiction. These genres will be teamed with specific art
instruction and hand-on activities that will teach the
story elements that identify the genre type which
normally are more difficult for children to grasp. This
project promotes academic excellence by creating a
multisensory environment, through which connections are
made through art and creativity while developing an
appreciation for different types of literature.
Web-Based Cameras for Language Lab
Penn High School – Grades 9 - 12
Delicia Huckleberry, ASL Teacher
Total Project Budget: $2,046 — Amount Requested: $2,046
— Amount Funded: $2,046
Real-time communication through a web-based camera will
impact the American Sign Language (ASL) and World
Language students by providing practice of their current
and prospective language skills. ASL especially, with
the need for eye-to-eye communication, will be directly
impacted by this step into Deaf culture. The project
promotes academic excellence by significantly expanding
the exposure students receive from native, professional,
and expert users of the languages they’re striving to
learn.
Conflict Resolution
Horizon Elementary School – Grades K - 5
Laura Lehner, Youth Service Bureau
Counselor
Total Project Budget: $365.95 — Amount Requested:
$365.95 — Amount Funded: $365.95
This grant will purchase two conflict management
programs to promote respect, tolerance, and peaceful
resolution. This project promotes academic excellence by
decreasing fighting and distractions in the classroom
and teaches students to positively resolve disputes
before escalation occurs.
Let There Be Night
All Schools K – 8 (will be offered at Penn)
Art Klinger, Planetarium Director
Total Project Budget: $30,000 — Amt.
Requested: $4,000 – Amt. funded by Grants Comm. $1,300 —
Amount funded by the Foundation’s Corporation-Wide
Initiatives: $2,700
Total funded:
$4,000
This project will introduce students
to outdoor lighting issues and coordinate a
district-wide experiment in which students quantify
local sky glow. PHMEF funding will complement a grant
from Toyota for the groundbreaking
Let There Be Night
program. After visiting the P-H-M Planetarium, over
6,000 students in grades 3-8 will measure the darkness
of the night sky by comparing their backyard
observations of Orion with online star charts. In the
classroom, teachers will guide students in analyzing the
data and discussing the side effects of lighting
technology.
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