Our Spring 2011 Grant Winners
Our Spring 2011 Educator Initiative Grant Winners
Research Buffs
Kim Casali, Buffalo Trail Elementary
Building Up Facts For Students; students utilize tools of the NOOK color to access research databases, internet, read books and primary resource documents.
GeoFitness
Pam Miller, Horizon Middle School
GeoFitness package – a class set of GeoMats, which are low impact mats with numbers and symbols and instructional materials for the physical education teacher. Enhances coordination, motor skills and number sense.
Urban Gardening
Brooke Spencer, Overland High School
Students develop hands-on and relevant experience with measuring and analyzing both abiotic and biotic soil characteristics. Students will grow and distribute food grown in the program.
Rapid Prototyping 3D Design and Modeling
Brian Huang, Overland High School
Mulit-disciplinary engineering and product design unit using a rapid prototype 3D printer to provide students with immediate visual and tangible feedback on design. Build solid models and designs that would be difficult to cut or shape by hand.
LabQuest Interface
Shealyn Malone, Overland High School
Multi-disciplinary LabQuest Interface will allow students to use existing probe-ware to collect their own lab data.
Tasa Graphic Arts Enhancement Software
Jeff Neises, Overland High School
High quality educational multimedia products specializing in the area of earth sciences.
Play it Cool, Stay in School
Joe Silipo, Cherry Creek PREP
PREP Basketball Team, after-school program for high risk team.
The 4 R’s – The Real Reasons for Repeated Reading
Luanne Dunlap, Dakota Valley Elementary
Program provides struggling students with reading fluency by creating audio books for younger readers.
Literacy Stories Brought to Life
Julie Hyde-Porter, Cherry Creek High School
Creative writing and ELA students will compose a written narrative of memorable literacy experiences, format it into a picture book and use it for the basis of storytelling.
We ARE Cottonwood
Melissa Kreider, Cottonwood Creek Elementary
Using Flip video cameras, microphones, and movie creation software, K-5 students will create a digital story and history of Cottonwood to deepen the students’ understanding of writing, communication and collaboration.
Panther Co-Disciplinary Student Group
Stacey Zimmerman, Pine Ridge Elementary
A semester-long project focusing on environmental awareness and community skills while embedding important pre-vocational skills, an indoor garden.
Extended Biology Inquiry Using Data Collection Technology
Jennifer Nass-Fukai, Overland High School
Biology and environmental science students will have access to sophisticated data collection technology in order to conduct inquiries around the interdependence of organisms, photosynthesis and cellular respiration.
