I am looking for flexible seating options for my classroom of students with special needs. My students would benefit from flexible seating because of the different sensory needs that they have. The furniture in my classroom is not conducive to their personal learning styles or sensory needs.
First Year Teacher Functional Classroom
I am a first year teacher looking to recreate a classroom that I took over. My goal is to create a functional room that meets the unique needs of my students by dedicating spaces to call their own. I plan to design a layout that is flexible and organized that benefits their learning styles. In addition, I want to create a comfortable learning environment where students feel at ease.
Increasing Student Interest and Achievement in Computer Science
In hoping to increase achievement and expand opportunities for Computer Science students in Saline Area Schools, I am writing this grant to purchase highly rated curricular materials from A+ Computer Science. At the high school level, the materials will help to bolster the already thriving and successful Computer Science 1 and AP Computer Science A programs. Additionally, the materials will help to increase interest and achievement for the AP Computer Science Principles class. Lastly, the materials provide a pathway for middle school students to expose them to Computer Science at an early age using developmentally appropriate programming languages and environments.
Backyard Brains: Neuroscience in the High School Classroom
Backyard Brains allows students to experience first-hand how neural impulses operate in our muscles. Instead of simply studying neural communication in a textbook, students will be able to use real neuroimaging technology to detect their own neural impulses in real time. The technology connects to an app on any device so that students can see, hear, and manipulate their own neural impulses firing throughout the body. Additionally, the human-to-human interface allows for one student’s muscle and nerve pathways to control another students’.
Here is a link to the website and product: https://backyardbrains.com/products/HHI
Here is a five-minute TedTalk in Detroit where the founder demonstrates this technology: https://www.ted.com/talks/greg_gage_how_to_control_someone_else_s_arm_with_your_brain
Physics Competitions
AP Physics C students will create, test, and modify an autonomous vehicle in class and then perform tasks at U of M’s M-City. In the past, my students have been involved in Physics competitions and have been able to cover the funding. The funding model has now changed and we are expected to fund more of these projects.
Microbiology Glassware
As we continue to develop and implement science curriculum that is laboratory based, we would like to have the option to recycle as many materials as possible. The current use of the plastic petri dishes are use and dispose. With these glass dishes, we can recycle the dishes year after year after year.
National Secondary Schools Writing Association Conference-Consultant Training
Funding will support the travel and training of 4-8 SHS Writing Center consultants at the National Conference of the Secondary Schools Writing Centers Association. These students will then return to SHS to implement and share ideas, practices, tools, and activities with our full consultant staff and all of the students through the SHS Writing Center.
Classroom Calculators
We are in need of a classroom set of calculators. Students are encouraged to have their own, but that is not always possible for families. Also, 8th graders may forget their personal calculator at home and need one for that day’s class period.
Secondary Schools Writing Association National Conference
Funding will support the travel and training of 6 SHS Writing Center consultants at the National Conference of the Secondary Schools Writing Centers Association. These students will then return to SHS to implement and share ideas, practices, tools, and activities with our full consultant staff and all of the students through the SHS Writing Center.
Fitness Development in K-3 Building: Rogue Fitness Folding Power Racks
In the gym at Pleasant Ridge we are dedicated to teaching our students about the benefits of a fitness based curriculum. With the introduction to many forms of exercise, our students are learning about what types of movements they can and will be completing for a lifetime for their own personal health and wellness. It is always our mission to give our students the necessary resources to complete these goals. With the addition of these Rogue Fitness Power Racks that will fold into the wall, we will be well on our way to completing our mission. Because of this, our unique K-3 environment will continue to meet the needs of all students and ability levels. These racks will be a huge upgrade over our current outdated pull up bars and will give us endless variability to what we are trying to accomplish from a station based fitness approach to teaching all students in our gym. I firmly believe that these racks will take our gym and the future of our students learning objectives in the gym, to the next level.
