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| 2003 Grant Summaries for implementation during the 2003-2004 School Year |
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DVDs In The Foreign Language Classroom
Sue Mandell – Foreign Language Teacher
Natick High School
This grant is funding a equipment and DVDs for a new DVD library for foreign language students at Natick High School. Thanks to the library, students can listen to native speakers and colloquial language, be introduced to foreign cultures, be provided with material for structured exercises and discussion. |
Fostering Fluency: Second Grade Classroom Fluency Kits
Anne LaPlace Zernicke – Literacy Coordinator
Kerry MacIsaac – Reading Specialist
Kristen Blake – Grade 2 Teacher
Karen Cotter – Grade 2 Teacher
Johnson School
Second grade teachers at Johnson Elementary School designed this project because research suggests fluency is one of several critical factors necessary for reading comprehension. The grant funded the purchase of Fluency Kits - resources and materials to promote and develop students' reading fluency – which are being used three times each to complement classroom reading instruction. |
Camerascope for Use in High School Life Science Classes
Kathi Browne – Science Department Chair
Natick High School
A camerascope for use in the life science classes at Natick High School was purchased through this grant. The camerascope projects, through the use of a monitor, cell samples that are under study to an entire class. It also allows instructors the option of demonstrating dissections as well as showing the action of live specimens to the entire class via the projection of the sample to a monitor. |
Computer Based Music Learning
Heather Moretz – Music Teacher
Marjorie Roberson – Technology Teacher
Wilson Middle School
The software purchased through this grant allows fifth and sixth grade students to experiment with musical notation, rhythm, melody, harmony, and composition. Students are able to work independently; and the multi-level software accommodates differing learning styles and speeds. |
Mini-Grant:Read-Along/Listening Center
Kathleen Ryan – Reading Specialist
Lisa Hayes – Grade 3 Teacher
Lois Hochberg – Grade 3 Teacher
Nina LaPlante- Grade 3 Teacher
Bennett Hemenway Elementary
The Read-along/Listening Center funded by this grant is designed to provide a range of curriculum related materials (books and tapes) for Grade 3 readers to develop and enhance literacy skills. Fiction and non-fiction texts support the core curriculum across subject areas. |
Using Digital Cameras with Microscopes
Lisa Blomberg – Biology Teacher
Dan Hinnenkamp – Biology Teacher
V. Larkin – Biology Teacher
Natick High School
The digital cameras purchased through this grant are being used in conjunction with other technology to record microscope observations. Students can enhance resolution and magnification, expose details of cell structure impossible to see at the highest magnification power of the microscope, and take a micrographs of specimens. |
Science Enrichment at Kennedy and Wilson Middle Schools
Kathi Browne – NHS Science Department Chair
Ken Henderson – Grade 7 Science teacher
James Brown – Grade 7 Science Teacher
Kennedy & Wilson Middle Schools
Thanks to this grant, students can now use balances of varying sensitivities to learn about the complexities of measurement. |
Classroom Classics
Jed Stefanowicz – Grade 3 Teacher
Michael Albert – Grade 3 Teacher
Denise Young – Grade 3 Teacher
Bev Melchiorri – Grade 3 Teacher
Brown School
This project has third graders at Brown Elementary School digitally recording and producing a CD of original songs that support materials used in the classroom Each student will receive a copy of CD that looks and sounds like a professional product and that will reinforce key concepts across all areas of the curriculum framework. |
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