The West Windsor-Plainsboro Education Foundation has announced the following grant awards to teachers in the WW-P district. More than $5,”000 in funding for nine innovative and cutting-edge classroom programs in elementary grades through high school was approved. The science grants are being sponsored by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Integra Foundation.##M:[more]##
“The West Windsor-Plainsboro Education Foundation is proud to be able to provide resources for creative, innovative projects that promote excellence in teaching and learning,” said Marcia Smith Fleres, executive director. “We thank all the teachers, staff, and students who are willing to try a creative approach, to risk doing things a new way, and to challenge themselves and their students.”
The WW-P Education Foundation is a private, nonprofit organization that has funded more than 240 programs in the district with contributions of more than $181,”000 to support teacher and student-generated ideas that enhance classroom learning and promote excellence in education.
The new grants include:
Big Books for Preschool, Diane Kosar, Millstone River School’s who are language-delayed, both expressive and receptive, depend upon the pictures in order to comprehend the story.
Up Close with Nature, Judy Breitenbach, Dutch Neck School. The grant will allow elementary grade students heightened visual awareness of specimens found in the Dutch Neck Community Garden.
Electricity and Magnetism, Marie Bresnahan and Lisa Cray, Village School. Liberty Science Center will present an assembly for third grade students followed by workshop sessions that provide additional hands-on experiences, support a variety of learning styles, and extend the content of the electricity kit.
Science Mysteries and Musicals, Rebecca Saba, Community Middle School. Seventh grade students will perform science-content musical plays, such as “Geology Rocks,” “Name that Internal Organ!” and “The Nutrition Show: Hansel and Gretel Eat Right!” for their peers and parents.
Virtual Eye Dissection for the Culturally Diverse Classroom, Denise Weber, Community Middle School. With plastic models of the human eye, students with cultural or religious objections involving dissection of animal tissue, will still be able to use models to increase their understanding of the three dimensional structure of the human eye.
Modeling Through Mentor Texts To Support Writing and Reading Workshops, Stacey Friedman, Grover Middle School. Books that will be used for writing and reading workshops, based on the Columbia Writing Program, will improve the quality of student’s writing.
Helping ESL Students Acquire English, Suihua Zhao, Chinese bilingual teacher, Community Middle School and High School South. Chinese speaking ESL students will use English to teach mainstream classes about their culture.
Lab Pro Control Boxes, Rich Therkorn, Carolyn SooHoo, and Regina Celin, High School North. The Venier LabPro control boxes will allow teachers to make better use of technology they already have and students will be able to design and implement testing and application experiments with better accuracy in physics and engineering.
