GRANT
AWARDS
Round 30 - Spring, 2002 (Page 1
of 2)
PRIMARY/ELEMENTARY LEVEL AWARDS
Title: Watch-It-Grow, Window Greenhouse
Level: Elementary
School: California K-8, California Area School District
Contact: Elaine Shannon
In this project students will study plant cycles. Using greenhouses that can
be hung on the classroom windows, students will be able to plant their own
seeds and keep logs of their daily observations of their plant.
Title: Hats Off to Uncle Sam
Level: Elementary
School: California K-8, California Area School District
Contact: Elaine Shannon
This grant will create a new unit of study for third graders, Hats Off to Uncle
Sam. Children will learn about various US symbols of freedom and a brief history
of the Declaration of Independence. Through videos, students will visit important
landmarks of our nation, National holidays will help the study focus on important
people and events of our history. With PTA assistance, students will make a
special T-shirt with the patriotic symbol of their choice to be worn at the
culminating activities day.
Title: A Victorian Tea With The Authors
Level: Elementary
School: Charleroi Area Elementary School, Charleroi Area School District
Contact: Barbara Pepper
In this grant project, writing, language arts and social studies combine as
students author and illustrate a fiction book and then present their work at
a Victorian Tea. For the tea, the students will dress in period hats (ladies)
and vests (gentlemen), perform a dance relevant to the era and read their original
fiction pieces. A formal tea will complete the gathering.
Title: Science Extravaganza
Level: Elementary
School: Westinghouse Elementary School, East Allegheny School District
Contact: Kelly Santimauro, Deb Gutwald
In this project, students will participate in five different activities such
as designing a spinning top, building a pasta tower to support a given weight
or balancing a board on a rounded surface. These activities will enhance their
present science lessons and will require students to be active observers, communicators,
predictors, problem solvers, model makers, and experimenters.
Title: May My Book Friend Sleep Over?
Level: Elementary
School: Central Elementary School, Elizabeth Forward School District
Contact: Karen Simon
This grant project hopes to encourage families to spend time together reading.
Flannelette bags made by the middle school home economic students will contain
a beanbag friend, a book about that friend and an activity to do at home. These
home activities will be integrated with the accelerated reading program at
school.
Title: Get Fit with G.W. First Grade
Level: Elementary
School: George Washington Elementary, McKeesport Area School District
Contact: Donna Berger, Barbara Carey, Linda
Holland, Kelly McCloskey, Margaret Sigler, Shirley Willard
This grant program has a dual purpose – to promote the importance of physical
fitness and proper nutrition and to demonstrate the importance of community
helpers. Students will participate in a variety of activities and will increase
their fitness. With the help of community people they will understand nutrition
and exercise, sportsmanship, and community resources in these areas. A culminating
activity will be a mini-Olympics.
Title: Envirothon 2002
Level: Elementary
School: Monongahela Elementary Center, Ringgold School District
Contact: Rosemary Bucchianeri, Gary Hamilton, Dr. John Shimkanin
This grant will assist in the creation of new environmental learning stations
and the enhancement of the nature trail at the elementary school. During a
two week period in the spring students participate in a variety of activities
prepared by Cal U students that reinforce environmental lessons. Along the
nature trail, pools will be created to introduce salamanders and frogs to the
trail. A butterfly garden is also under consideration. The nature trail at
the school will be enhanced for more outdoor classroom opportunities.
Title: The Outdoor School
Level: Elementary
School: South Allegheny Primary School, South Allegheny School District
Contact: Rose Eckman, Joan Adams, Aimee Jackson, Terry Martin
This grant will help expand the present hands-on science curriculum, ASSET
by creating an opportunity for study in the life sciences – characteristics,
life cycles, and environment of organisms. A flowerbed will be made to plant
spring bulbs. Children will observe, measure and record data of the growth,
blooming and decomposition of the various bulbs. These lessons will be integrated
with the weather unit as well as math, reading, writing, and social studies.
Title: Muffins, Manners and More
Level: Elementary
School: Park Elementary School, Steel Valley School District
Contact: Carole Smart, Sandy Fry
This grant project is designed to incorporate the writing process and manners.
Students will learn several writing formats such as short stories, poetry and
letter writing. A booklet of class writings will be made and readings from
it will be presented to family and community members at a tea. Preparations
for the tea will include lessons on manners and etiquette.
Title: Math and Music
Level: Elementary
School: Mendon Elementary School, Yough School District
Contact: Cathy Donohoe
This grant project is designed to help children reach their intellectual potential
by combining music with mathematics. Research has shown that higher brain functions
of abstract reasoning are enhanced by music and music activities. This project
will join music and math together to promote the connection between right and
left brain activity and to create a powerful force for learning.
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