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2001-2002 Grant Awards
Math/Science/History
The Outdoor Classroom/Butterfly Habitat
Garden -
Cottage Lake Elementary ($641). The new Outdoor Classroom at Cottage
Lake Elementary will feature classroom seating, raised planter boxes,
composting area and salmon and butterfly habitat gardens. This grant
will fund butterfly habitat educational signage for the classroom and
printing of student researched and designed educational brochures
focusing on butterfly development and habitat.
Sciencing Workshop
- Cottage Lake
Elementary ($300). The grant will provide scientific equipment and
materials for student experimentation for 3rd graders. Sciencing
Workshop lessons are student centered and follow a format that
includes: mini-lessons, hands on individual exploration, recording,
sharing and publishing.
Sciencing with Children: Observation
Stations -
Crystal Springs ($824). NPEF Grant funds will purchase scientific
equipment: microscopes eye loupes, gear sets, mini-motors, geo blocks,
platform scales and magnetic marbles. Through experiments, the
students will learn science content through investigating and learn
how to answer their own questions in a scientific setting.
Science Garden
– Kokanee Elementary ($650). Funds will provide materials to build a
12’’x6’’ raised-bed garden to use to teach science. This bed will join
a previous garden “ which greatly enhanced students’ excitement and
learning and learning, but one bed was not sufficient for 24 students
to work in”.
Kokanee Reforestation Project
- Kokanee Elementary ($400). This is a continuation of project begun
by 4thand 5th graders this past year, which brought together students,
parents, and business community to reshape the barren hillside. The
funds will be used to purchase native shrubs and trees. The students
will begin the fall by surveying the hillside. After mapping of the
site a plan will be drawn up. Plants will be purchased in February and
planted in March.
CO2 Car: Problem Solving for Speed!
- Kenmore Junior High ($850). Kenmore Junior High will purchase a new
CO2 racetrack with this grant. 7th and 9thgrade Tech Ed. students
design and manufacture a CO2 racecar that meets PITSCO Design
Specification. The utilize information gathered through studying
aerodynamics, use CAD to draw a side and top view of the car and
analyze their design using a wind tunnel. After they manufacture their
car using power equipment, the culmination of the project is the
pitting of their car against another in a race.
Computer Assisted Learning Stations
- Woodin Elementary ($882). The NPEF grant will provide a portion of
the funds to design three Computer Assisted Learning Stations for
in-class use by first and second graders. They will be used in several
ways by classroom adults and students to support in-class directed
lessons, to allow students alternative access to learning beyond paper
and pencil, and as cooperative student workstations.
Model United Nations
- Inglemoor High School ($1,000). This grant will provide funds for
registration for Inglemoor students to participate in the Model United
Nations in Berkeley, CA and Washington, D.C.
Literacy/Language
Jump into Reading and Writing
- Frank Love Elementary ($1,000). This grant will provide books,
skill cards, and I love to read and write pencils for first graders.
Students and parents are invited to a series of evening workshops
promoting reading and writing. Teachers present practical strategies
that can be used by parents as they work with their children to
practice reading and writing.
Summer School - Jump Start
- Frank Love Elementary ($1,000). Frank Love entering first,
second and third graders, who are at risk for meeting standards in
reading and writing, will be invited to participate in a summer “Jump
Start” program. This program includes a June-August reading/writing
requirement, with completion of a journal, and a two-week intensive
program prior to the opening of the school in August. Funds will
provide Rigby Sales Literacy Series.
Literature Enrichment
- Wellington
Elementary ($600). Janet Wong, an award-winning poet will be hired to
work with 4th-6th grade students. Following a 45-minute assembly, the
students will have the opportunity to write a poem focusing on family
using metaphor-simile style in a series of 45-minute writing
workshops.
Students, Seniors, and Sunshine
- Westhill Elementary ($500). Fourth, fifth, and sixth grade special
ed. students from Westhill Contained Learning Center visit with senior
citizens at Northshore House. The funds will provide art and craft
supplies which they use along with the seniors. This project helps the
student to work on both communicating ideas clearly and effectively
using communication strategies and skills to work effectively with
others.
Leemos espanol! And Building Blocks for
Newcomers
- Woodin Elementary ($1,300). These funds for two separate projects
will purchase paperback books; games and puzzles; and tapes for
kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade ESL students and
families. The goal is to foster academic preparedness with students as
well as develop a life long love of literature.
Book Bags for Home
- Woodmoor Elementary ($1,000). Book bags for home is a project to
increase reading skills, encourage parent involvement and enjoyment
with their child, and promote growth in IEP language arts objectives.
After fall testing, each student will provided with a book bag, parent
journal and appropriate reading materials. There will be an incentive
program to celebrate the time spent reading with families. Community
volunteers will also be utilized.
Media Literacy
- Woodinville High School ($804). Project creates an intensive
literacy unit for eleventh graders. It will teach advertising
techniques, media stereotypes, and allow students to explore the
subtle aspects of American culture. An emphasis will be placed on
professional films to lead discussions and build curriculum about body
image, make and female roles and society, and living in the
multicultural age.
Music/Art
After School Enrichment - Brown Bag School
- Kenmore Elementary ($300). The funds will provide materials for
after school enrichment projects for students who may be without
childcare and would otherwise return home to an empty house. Children
would have no-cost opportunities to explore areas of interest such as
Spanish, gardening, pottery, drawing, photography, environmental
investigations, and technology.
Aesthetics as a Life Pattern
- Inglemoor High School ($1,000). These funds will provide a
variety of art reference books, general art supplies, art curriculum
guides, and maps for an Intensive Senior English class. “teachers at
IHS are requesting a grant that will allow us to enhance our
curriculum with art and guide our students towards and aesthetic
perception that has probably been neglected by formal education and
may seem revolutionary by traditional standards”.
Greenstage performs Macbeth at WHS
- Woodinville High School ($1,000). Greenstage is a group of Seattle
actors who perform Shakespearean plays. They will perform Macbeth, the
Shakespeare text taught to all Woodinville Juniors. Following the
performance, which will be attended by all juniors, there will be
discussion of the play, allowing the students to question particular
interpretations and issues presented.
Physical Fitness
Digi-Walking
to a Healthy Lifestyle
- Woodmoor Elementary ($992). This grant will provide 30 Digi-Walker
kits to encourage 10,000 steps a day. The Digi-Walkers count the
steps. Students will be able to gauge their level of activity.
Teachers will wear the Digi-Walkers along with the students. Fun
competitions are planned with PTSA, Rotary and other community groups.
The Foundation also awarded:
*$1,700 for Book Bags
for Home (Wells Fargo Grant)
*$3,500 for Developing
Mathematical Ideas casebooks (Washington Mutual Grant)
*$4,500 for District Literacy Link Summer School
Program
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