“We are Four and We are Fit!”
Cindy Ellett
Arrow Springs Elementary
$391.45
Fact – Four year olds grasp concepts more quickly and retain more information if allowed and encouraged to have large motor activity during their school day.  With our movement CD’s and new physical education equipment, we will exercise our bodies as well as our brains.

“Boarding the Arc”
Stacie Blackward
Arrow Springs Elementary School
$420.50
Pre reading materials that focuses on the prevention of reading difficulties through instruction in phonological awareness, letter recognition, letter sounds, and oral language in a fun way!

“Wipe Away Your Mistakes”
Jodi Garland
Arrow Springs Elementary
$147.13
I would like a class set of small white boards to use during oral instruction. Each student would have their “own” white board to work on math and science problems that are assigned for the day.

“Different is Good”
Katy Cook
Arrow Springs Elementary
$157.93
By differentiating instruction in my classroom, I will more effectively reach all my students. Everyone in my classroom will be engaged, will take an active role in their education and will be working on assignments that are designed for them!

“Get Out the Vote!”
Katy Cook
Arrow Springs Elementary
$210.38
Students will experience the presidential election like never before!  They will be immersed in the democratic process that chooses our nation’s leader by researching, holding an election, and promoting voting in the community.

“For the Love of Literature”
Robi Parker
Arrow Springs Elementary
$219.83
This project is going to get kids excited about reading with imaginative ideas designed to spark their love of literature.  The activities include fun projects such as creating accordion books, story quilts, pop-up books and many more kid-friendly activities that will encourage critical and creative thinking about literature.

“Figuratively Speaking!”
Robi Parker
Arrow Springs Elementary
$148.77
Figuratively Speaking is a project designed to increase student’s knowledge of figurative language, such as, similes, metaphors, hyperboles, and personification.

“Get Your Thrills with Comprehension Skills!”
Robi Parker
Arrow Springs Elementary
$356.24
This project will allow students to receive direct and differential instruction specifically targeted to their individual reading ability.  Students will be thrilled as they actively engage in small group and individual activities designed to enrich their reading skills.

“Know Your Nyms!”
Robi Parker
Arrow Springs Elementary
$76.87
This project, Know Your Nyms, is deigned to increase student’s knowledge of antonyms, synonyms and homonyms.  The games and activities purchased with this grant will be used to teach the “Nyms” in a fun and exciting way that students will remember!

“Be an Ethnographer”
Sharon Petrik
Arrowhead Elementary
$996.86
Students will pretend that they are an ethnographer, and explore, observe, research, and learn about other people and their cultures.  The student ethnographers will increase their cross-cultural understanding and appreciation for human differences, and build an appreciation of the diverse cultures that share our school and our planet.

“Rhyme Sublime”
Pam Wood
Arrowhead Elementary
$705.76
“Rhyme Sublime” allows students to play with language to enrich their vocabulary, increase their knowledge of how our language works, increase awareness the sounds letters make in isolation, within words, and how letter sounds fit together to make words.

“Up and Down, Walk Around”
Pam Wood
Arrowhead Elementary
$705.76
“Up and Down, Walk Around” is a project to develop students’ balance, coordination, and aid gross motor development.  Students will lay textured, multi-level jointed beams and steps in patterns to balance one.

“Reading, Math and Games…Oh My!”
April Hegdale
Arrowhead Elementary
$985.18
My students need additional “FUN” educational resources to reinforce the objectives being taught. Classroom reading and math activities will help accommodate the learning styles of all students.

“Perfect Fit”
Kelly Zilmer
Country Lane Elementary
$918.72
Perfect Fit will be a leveled Bookroom designed for early readers and English Language Learners.  The Bookroom will provide teachers the opportunity to find “perfect fit” books for each child along with enhancing personal interests, building background knowledge, and foster comprehension.

“Classics Club”
Jennifer Dunmire
Indian Springs Elementary
$360.00
A Classics Club will be implemented in the library to encourage students to read the classics of children’s literature which are often passed by in favor of new titles.  These are stories that shouldn’t be missed and with this program fourth and fifth graders will be motivated to try them.

“Hard of Hearing and Deaf Education Communications Skills”
Tamara Kirkley
Indian Springs Elementary
$652.59
The purpose of this project is to increase the communications skills of the children in the Hard of Hearing and Deaf Education elementary classes.  Increasing vocabulary and understanding of grammar is important to expanding a hard of hearing or deaf child’s receptive and expressive language skills.

“Push, Pull and Roll”
Kena Kephart, Nancy Dowe
Leisure Park Elementary
$488.16
Students will develop a better understanding of simple machines through exciting hands-on learning activities which supplement, reinforce and extend classroom lessons.  This grant will provide materials for problem-solving activities based on simple machine concepts.

“Let’s Take a Closer Look”
Rhonda Bennett
Liberty Elementary
$556.95
Students will explore objects that they can not see with just their own eyes.  Their observation skills will improve with the aid of a microscope.

“Math Connections”
Tracy Reynolds
Liberty Elementary
$336.23
This grant will provide exciting hands-on math materials that will connect classroom lessons into tangible concepts.  These investigative materials bridge the gap between classroom learning and everyday living by providing the students with skills in adding, subtracting, telling time, counting money and measuring.

“SMART KIDS – Learning Lab”
Samantha Summers
Liberty Elementary
$823.75
The Geo Movement Lab is an interactive academic program targeting the young developing brain to improve student performance. Geo Movement incorporates learning numbers, the alphabet, colors, directions, body awareness and fitness.  Brain research demonstrates that what makes us move is also what makes us think. Neuroscientists are advocating the importance of movement and physical activity in the learning process.

“Crayola Dream Makers in 3-D”
Kimberly Slater
Liberty Elementary
$752.50
Crayola Dream Makers in 3-D will use the Crayola Dream-Maker lesson guides to create three dimensional work or art influenced by the subject areas of language arts, math, social studies, and science.  Sculpture and ceramics will be the main methods of execution.

“Life Cycle”
LaDawn Johnson, Shirley Chatman, Rhonda Fisher, Robyn Howell, April Nold, Kristi Schaefer, Teresa York
Liberty Elementary
$991.30
The project enables First Grade Team to simultaneously introduce their first grade students to science and develop a much deeper level of understanding and appreciation for the environment. The students will learn about three different life cycles while using critical thinking skills to compare differences and similarities.

“Caution!  We’re Reading”
La Dawn Johnson
Liberty Elementary
$459.14
A variety of activities utilizing vocabulary building, alphabet recognition, and phonic exercise will increase a student’s speed, smoothness, and ease of oral reading  Providing “hand-on” activities that enhances a student’s ability, skills, and knowledge to recognize words on sight rather the word is in a sentence or other written expressions.

“I’ll take Classroom Jeopardy for $1,000”
Jennifer Colvin
Liberty Elementary
$977.90
Research shows that interactive learning helps students retain information at a higher rate and perform better on standardized tests.  With Classroom Jeopardy, 4^th grade students at Liberty Elementary will pave the way for increased scores while having fun!

“Linking Learning to Meaningful Manipulatives”
Lindsay Little
Lynn Wood Special Education
$352.00
Many students learn best with hands-on materials.  Reading manipulatives build literacy skills by providing structured materials that keep students engaged and cover all aspects of the targeted language arts skills.

“Learning Preschool Skills through Learning Games”
Terri A. Dershem
Oak Crest Elementary
$67.60
Using magnetic fishing games the students will fish for colors, shapes, numbers, and the alphabet and say what they have caught.  The students will be learning core curriculum materials with these fun activities.

“Learning That Leaves its Mark and Sticks”
Wanda Phillips
Oak Crest Elementary
$365.20
Learning that “sticks” is every teacher’s wish.  By utilizing whiteboards and magnetic math sets, students will be ensuring just that, as they use markers and magnets to make certain math skills they have learned “sticks”.

“And the Answer is……”
Wanda Phillips
Oak Crest Elementary
$858.02
One goal that teachers have for their students, is that they be actively engaged in their learning and enjoy doing it.  A classroom response system will allow the entire class to be engaged in a fun way while giving invaluable “real time” feedback to the teacher so instruction can be adapted and adjusted during the lesson, as well as being used for a variety of other applications in the classroom.

“Giddy for Grammar”
Robyn R. Carey
Oak Crest Elementary
$141.05
“A Mink, a Fink, a Skating Rink,” fun-filled and educational books expand students’ knowledge of grammar in a high-interest, entertaining way with the 13 books included in the Giddy for Grammar project.  This project will build skills necessary for students to be successful in writing assignments, assessments, and future writing endeavors.

“Literary Lowdown”
Robyn R. Carey
Oak Crest Elementary
$86.60
Shining a spotlight through the Literacy Lowdown project will help students take an in-depth approach to learning about plot, setting, character, point of view, figurative language, theme, foreshadowing, flashback, tone, and mood.  Specially selected stories and skill-building activities in this all-in-one program help even struggling students enjoy learning about literary elements.

“Taking assistance for those that can’t speak for themselves”
Terri A. Dershem
Oak Crest Elementary
$137.00
For students that have limited and/or no verbal language skills and require assistance to make their wants and needs known using a recordable device coupled with a picture to demonstrate the verbal request the students will be more independent in the school setting and be able to actively participate in classroom activities.

“The Puzzler”
Melissa Armstrong
Oak Crest Elementary
$58.46
The Sentence Description of Project (If project is funded, description may be used in brochure): The Puzzler allows children hand-on, tactile experiences which are fun and challenging.  These puzzles help promote appropriate behavior interaction critical to developing needed social and problem solving skills.

“Clue in to Comprehension”
Robyn R. Carey
Oak Crest Elementary
$221.60
The Clue in to Comprehension project focuses on the 8 keys of reading through high-interest activities that put each concept into action.  This project includes ready-to-use graphic organizers, hands-on interactive learning games, as well as extension activities to use for tutoring students that struggle with reading.

“We Like to Move It – Move It!”
Melissa Armstrong
Oak Crest Elementary
$30.95
Children will skip, stretch, hop, wiggle and giggle their way to coordination and physical fitness with this fun interactive program which is designed to get the whole class moving. So, if you are ready for a brain break then just get up and “Move It”!

“Wiggling Wonders”
Melissa Armstrong
Oak Crest Elementary
$131.95
The Wiggling Wonders project allows young learners the opportunity to discover one of the Earth’s most amazing recyclers – worms.  Students will be able to see how worms turn waste into soil, watch them dig tunnels to create drainage for plants, and perform countless hands-on, exciting experiments with these wiggling creatures as they use scientific reasoning and critical thinking to deepen their understanding of science.

“Time and Money Well Spent”
Kristine Weyher
Park Lane Elementary
$432.20
This project builds a solid foundation in math by involving young students in a variety of mathematics materials. Through a hand-on, minds-on approach, students have opportunities to learn and grow at their individual level.

“An Adventure through Tropical Terrain”
Kristine Weyher
Park Lane Elementary
$549.54
Through hands-on exploration and experiences with non-fiction tests, students will learn about the tropical rain forests of the world.  Students will learn about the layers and animals of the rain forest while developing an understanding of the Earth’s climate and environmental differences.

“Sing and Learn to Read!”
Kristine Weyher
Park Lane Elementary
$457.83
Through songs written into books, young children will be exposed to many components of phonemic awareness.  These experiences will further their pre-reading development and build self-confidence.

“Creating Child-Made Masterpieces”
Kristine Weyher
Park Lane Elementary
$330.00
The integration of the arts into early childhood education is a worthwhile and valuable way to enrich the lives of young students.  Through the unique process of doing art, young children learn the importance of following directions while creating a masterpiece of their own!

“Blast Off! An adventure out of this World!”
Kristine Weyher
Park Lane Elementary
$937.52
This in depth science study of the Solar System will provide young children with a hands-on introduction to space.  Students will learn about planets, stars, and space exploration through a variety of experiences with manipulatives and learning tools while learning across the curriculum.

“Tarps! An All Inclusive Out Of The Box Activity”
Jason Black
Park Lane Elementary
$161.00
Tarp activities help students to build cooperative and problem solving skills through the use of ordinary tarps. The tarps will provide purposeful fun that will have great outcomes.

“T² – Terrific Teambuilding”
Jason Black
Park Lane Elementary
$695.00
Six-team building activities that will be used to challenge teams of 10-12 students to communicate, plan, and cooperate together I order to solve a specified task.  In each challenge, the team will work together to retrieve objects, move objects, create objects and solve math problems by showing teamwork.

“Golf, The Frisbee Way”
Jason Black
Park Lane Elementary
$701.94
The sport of Frisbee Golf will be taught to each grade level with the use of actual Frisbee golf equipment.  This is a sport that will benefit students their whole life by teaching them math concepts, percentages, distance calculation, teamwork, targeting, throwing, and strategic thinking as well as activity that they can do outside even past their school years.

“Differentiation Stations”
Renae Smith
Park Lane Elementary School
$383.76
Students travel in small groups, pairs or independently to literacy stations located throughout the classroom.  The differentiated literacy stations allow the teacher to manage small groups during flexible guided reading sessions with minimal interruptions for maximum learning.

“Fifty Nifty United States”
Renae Smith
Park Lane Elementary School
$183.82
This North American geography postcard project makes map studies more interesting and relevant for young learners. Hands-on activities provide students with materials that promote unique ways to learn the 50 states and capitals, US landmarks and destinations, and the historical importance of each state.

“OKLAHOMA is OK!”
Renae Smith
Park Lane Elementary School
$143.74
The OKLAHOMA is OK project has a dual purpose. It is an ultimate curriculum package that provides many resources and activities specific to our state to assist both the teacher and the student in better understanding our great state.

“Author of the Month”
Renae Smith
Park Lane Elementary
$387.43
Author of the Month studies will be enhanced with a collection of resources providing opportunities for students to explore popular books by favorite authors/illustrators. Students will develop an ability to compare, analyze and enjoy an author’s literacy and artistic style.

“Play For Understanding”
Christy Bennett
Rhoades Elementary
$423.98
“Play for Understanding” is a dramatic play center in which children use their imagination while playing as a way of making sense of the world around them.  Students learn through hands on experience about the world around them through social skills as negotiation, cooperation, and sharing.

“One Two Buckle My Shoe”
Christy Bennett
Rhoades Elementary
$212.70
“One Two Buckle My Shoe” will give kindergarten student’s age appropriate practice tying, zipping, buttoning, lacing, snapping, and fastening.  It will also provide students opportunities to work on and master other dexterity and other fine motor skills.

“Is This Handwriting?”
Courtney L. Cook
Rhoades Elementary
$530.34
Students will be engaged in activities that will build pre-writing skills along with proper letter and number formation.  Students will have the chance to experience fine motor skills through different types of manipulatives and various activities using hands-on methods.

“In Like a Lion Out Like a Lamb”
Christy Bennett
Rhoades Elementary
$485.55
This program is designed to help children explore their environment through meaningful experiences.  The materials in this project can help build their weather and seasonal knowledge and vocabulary.

“Am I Magic?”
Jennifer Jones
Rhoades Elementary
$118.44
“Am I Magic?” will allow students the opportunity to demonstrate the mysterious forces and wonders of magnetism through a comprehensive magnet study program.  Every student, regardless of learning styles, will be able to learn through unlimited exploration and discovery of numerous and varied materials.

“Destination Earth”
Sharon Thomson, Linda Acee, Amber Boley, Kayla Cardenas
Rhoades Elementary
$953.75
This project is designed to teach map and globe skills in small cooperative groups.  It is a true hands-on project with children locating, marking and manipulating models of the Earth as well s three-dimensional maps.

“Never Bored with Graphing Boards!”
Kayci Smith
Vandever Elementary
$58.89
“Never Bored with Graphing Boards” is a hand-on learning project that can be applied to the third grade curriculum throughout the school year.  Students will be able to use a graphing board to find coordinate pairs as well as create various types of graphs

“Please Sign In”
Teresa Smith
Westwood Elementary
$107.90
To further enhance language, reading and vocabulary in my classroom by incorporating sign language learning into the curriculum.  The complete sign language learning kit would also bridge the gap in communication between my English speaking children and my ELL children.

“I’m Not Scared…I’m Prepared!”
Heather Hankins
Wolf Creek Elementary
$188.99
With the best selling series of reading board games made by Learning Well Games, students will gain confidence as readers. These games focus on specific reading skills that are often trouble areas for students including:  following directions, recognizing the main idea, predicting outcomes, reading for details, etc.

“The Wonder of Words”
Heather Hankins
Wolf Creek Elementary
$93.69
Students will enjoy the wonder of words as they participate in various word games. The games are designed to focus on phonics, spelling, vocabulary, parts of speech, and word decoding.

“Student-Directed Literature Circles”
Kren Bennett
Centennial Middle School
$324.21
In the Student-Directed Literature Circles project, middle school students will engage in small group reading and discussion of contemporary works of fiction.  This project is student-centered and student-directed, in that each class member will choose a Literature Circle of interest, and then work together with his or her group to make decisions regarding the reading, discussion, and other related activities of the Literature Circle.

“The Math Behind Kites”
Sherry Girard
Centennial Middle School
$124.20
Students will use real life application of math.  Students will see the importance of measurement skills, angles and area in application.  Students will build a kit that will integrate several math concepts that students routinely struggle to understand.

“Cars”
Sherry Girard
Centennial Middle School
$145.80
Students will use real life application of math.  Students will see the importance of measurement skills in application.  Students will build a car that will integrate several math concepts that students routinely struggle to understand.

“Unlocking Language”
Krista Wright
Centennial Middle School
$463.32
Students will be using science dictionaries as a study companion for learning the key concepts of science.  By understanding science vocabulary, students will deepen their basic science knowledge.

“Small Stories / Large Concepts”
Tricia Melgaard
Centennial Middle School
$697.50
Picture books are used with middle school students to understand and recognize literary devices and to encourage the use of literary devices in their own writing.

“Exothermic Chemical Reactions “Sizzling Livers”
Sarah Bacon-Kellogg
Centennial Middle School
$39.69
Students will gain a hands-on understanding of chemical reactions, scientific method, experimental design, and data analysis.  Students will compare the chemical reactions of chicken liver in hydrogen peroxide versus beef liver in hydrogen peroxide.

“Fossil Identification, “Amazing Amber”
Sarah Bacon-Kellogg
Centennial Middle School
$127.82
This project is designed to improve students’ identification and classification skills while increasing understanding of the Earth’s fossil record.  This project is enhanced with video, fossils, and student created lab records, drawings, maps and presentations.

“Layered Map of Westward Expansion”
Gloria Blankenship
Childers Middle School
$260.14
This project is designed to allow students to see the progression of the territorial claims made by the United States as they realized manifest destiny. This hand-on approach gives the students a great visual masterpiece of Westward Expansion.

“The Amazing Race Through Reference Books”
Laura Benware
Childers Middle School
$377.48
On your mark, get set, RACE!!  Students – grab a pencil and a partner and gear up for the race of the school year.  The Amazing Race Through Reference Books is a journey through various reference sources that teaches students to master eight different reference sources.

“The Root of Vocabulary Building!”
Loretta LaFon
Haskell Middle School
$441.00
Students are given a hands-on approach to building vocabulary from learning word origins (roots, prefixes, and suffixes) to matching words with their counterparts (similes). Card activities provide a fun way of using the vocabulary in meaningful contexts.

“Bottle Biology – Let’s make an Ecocolumn!”
Janice Coldwell
Haskell Middle School
$367.05
The students will explore their world using recyclable soda bottles and other materials in order to design and crate an Ecocolumn.  They will observe the biotic and abiotic factors that make up the world and the interaction between organisms.

“Unlocking the Key to Mineral Identification”
Deborah Coffman
Oliver Middle School
$549.75
Students will learn how to identify and classify known and unknown mineral samples. They will learn how to test the minerals for the following physical and chemical properties, color, hardness, streak, luster, cleavage/fracture, specific gravity and special properties such as reactivity to acid, response to magnets and their ability to Fluoresce under ultraviolet light.

“Human Genetics – Could taste be a part of the Genetic Code?”
Leslie Cadenehead
Oliver Middle School
$64.93
Students will discover how genetics plays a part in even their ability to taste when they test themselves and their family members’ ability to taste three different chemicals.  The students will better understand how certain dominant and recessive traits are passed from parents to offspring upon completion of this genetic experiment.

“Broken Bones!”
Leslie Cadenehead
Oliver Middle School
$52.63
The students will compare a set of life size human x-rays to a set of broken bone x-rays.  They will be able to arrange the 18 life size human x-rays together to reproduce the entire body of a young adult.

“SOS @ Sequoyah (Seeking Our Success at Sequoyah)”
Jamie Bendure
Sequoyah Middle School Counseling Office
$215.60
Handbook of study skill ideas to assist remediation students and reinforce information presented by Learning Coaches to increase student learning.

“SOS @ Sequoyah (Seeking Our Success at Sequoyah) 6^th Grade”
Jamie Bendure
Sequoyah Middle School Counseling Office
$220.00
Handbook to assist incoming 6^th grade students and new students to Sequoyah Middle School on how to be successful in middle school.

“SOS @ Sequoyah (Seeking Our Success at Sequoyah) Parent Edition”
Jamie Bendure
Sequoyah Middle School Counseling Office
 $220.00
Handbook to assist parents to Sequoyah Middle School on how to be successful in middle school.

“Measuring Physical Properties”
Brenda Magette
Sequoyah Middle School
$873.07
This application is for measurement supplies for our laboratory so we can learn to use our measuring skills and the tools.  The project will help the students understand density, weight, mass, time and force.

“DVD for MS (Developing Vocabulary Descriptively for Middle School)”
Judy Ortwein
Sequoyah Middle School
$191.81
This project allows for materials necessary for developing higher vocabulary knowledge in low achieving middle school students which has been shown to improve student performance in other academic areas.  Research based materials to teach and reinforce vocabulary skills included in Oklahoma Pass objectives as well as Broken Arrow Public Schools Benchmark Objectives.

“The Heat is On”
Marsha J. Howard
North Intermediate H.S.
$720.00
Biology teachers at North Intermediate High school make the microbiological world come alive to the students by using pure cultures to view and test in many ways as well as culturing microbes from our own environment (“Did that really come form the water fountain?”).  Incubators will be utilized be every student that comes through North Intermediate as they learn about the microscopic world that is all around them, and all over them.

“Moths Away”
Dusty Fuller
North Intermediate H.S.
$228.58
Students will assume the role of a carnivorous predator as they search for well camouflaged variant models of the peppered moth against a dark background which represents trees in a forest ecosystem.  The new predatory role, of the students, will simulate natural selection of peppered moths that actually occurred in a soot laden forest in England.

“Crash!”
Jennifer Jones
South Intermediate H.S.
$839.13
This activity allows students to explore the concepts of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum by performing collision experiences.  Students CAN control multiple variables and observe how these variables effect elastic and inelastic collisions.

“Zingo-Where Does All of the Energy Go?”
Tracy Green
South Intermediate H.S.
$723.12
Using roller coasters, students distinguish between potential and kinetic energy as well as explore the concept of the law of conservation of energy.  Students will discover how height relates to speed and how potential energy is transferred to kinetic energy.

“Global Warming: Law of Chemistry: Or do the Numbers Lie?”
Sandra Angelo
B. A. Senior High School
$613.08
Students will perform calorimetric (heat) measurements and apply the results to the laws of thermodynamics and global warming.

“Virtual Frog Dissection”
Karen Tanner
BA Senior H.S.
$190.00
This project will allow biology students to experience frog dissection.  Using computer software students will progress self-paced through a virtual frog dissection using video form an actual frog dissection.

“Yeastie Beasties”
Janet Brewster
BA Senior High
$599.13
Research on bio-fermentation in yeast will lead to greater understanding of life cycles and genetic processes I microorganisms.  Valuable lab skills acquired will prepare students for college-level laboratory work.

“Project “SWAP”-School Wide Against Plastic”
Donna Gradel
BA Senior High
$696.75
Students will use “Project Swap” (School Wide Against Plastic) as a means to implement, monitor, collect data and maintain a campus-wide plastic bottle recycling program on the senior high campus.

“Isn’t it Ionic?”
Laura Achireddy
BA Senior High School
$686.07
Chemistry students will u se plastic chips printed with element symbols to successfully write formulas for ionic compounds. The abstract concept of balancing positive and negative charges to make an electrically neutral compound will become concrete as students simply make matching pairs.

“Quadratics Have A Slope”
Cindy Panke
BA Senior High School
$935.00
Algebra II students believe that the only graph that has a slope is that of a line.  Through the use of technology, the students will discover that the graph of a quadratic function will also have a slope.

“Rocket-Scientist-Having a Blast in Match & Science”
April Blamires and Jack Castle
BA Academy
$931.12
This project will incorporate science, mathematics, and technology education using graphing calculators.  Students will build and launch rockets, then use the calculators to find statistics such as altitude, speed and a variety of other launch related calculations.

“Music, Medley: Stirring Up the Beats”
Julie Allen, Jack Castle, April Blamires, Terrill Hendrix, Cindy Coleman, Tonya Standley
BA Academy
$628.68
This project will introduce students to the influence music has on our society throughout history.  We will also study the scientific and mathematic workings of instruments in making sound by creating instruments and learning to play them.

“Math Art Pieces: Please Give Me a MathArt Combo…super sized!”
Juli Allen, April Blamires
BA Academy
$870.96
This project will involve both math and art students immersing them in exercises that utilize comparison and parallelism skills while performing various activities in experimentation, problem solving, and enrichment.  Students will use these skills to create an endless variety of projects that emphasize the importance of the relationship bonds that math and art share.

“From Palette to Page”
Julie Allen, Linda Rubin, Mark Cooke
BA Academy
$804.12
Students will create books that will highlight historically famous artists including a study of their unique individual style, famous works of art, and diverse cultural perspective.  Students will acquire bookmaking skills, develop creative writing style, utilize publishing software, and apply a variety of illustration techniques that will together enhance the publication and applicability of their work as it is used with elementary students in our Turn-about tutoring program.

“Connect with K’Nex”
Cindy Coleman, Jack Castle
BA Academy
$932.40
Getting connected with K’nex will offer students learning based discover, problem solving, organization, and cooperative learning while enhancing key objectives found in Science curriculum.  K’nex targets student imagination and creativity while supporting basic principles of motion, forces, energy, space of exploration, and simple machines.

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