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Recipient: Sandi Sherman "Students Learning from the Dead" Arizona Daily Star Article |
Project Description: The purpose of this grant is to encourage Prince Elementary 5th graders to think like real researchers. The students will work with a local software developer to create a program that they will load on their laptops before they head to a local cemetery to collect data. The information gathered will be analyzed to provide a window into the history of their community. For example, what happened in 1918 that lead to an increase in deaths? Do women really live longer than men? Has the average age at death changed over the last century?
Arizona Daily Star Article about Mrs. Sherman's Project "Students Learning from the Dead"
Recipient’s Bio: Sandi Sherman has been an educator for 32 years. Sandi has a BA in Elementary Education and a MEd in Gifted Education. Both degrees are from the University of Arizona. She began her career in Sahuarita, Arizona as a classroom teacher and for the past 23 years she has worked for Amphitheater Public Schools as a gifted specialist. Career Ladder Facilitator and Staff Developer. Sandi has helped facilitate a change in gifted services in Amphitheater over the past 23 years and most recently helped to implement the cluster model for providing services. That means the identified gifted students are clustered in the regular classrooms and the gifted specialist provides support and training to the classroom teacher, with the goal of providing services for gifted students all week long, not just once a week during a pull-out session. Sandi wrote this grant with the help of the fifth grade cluster classroom teacher. The proposed project is an example of the interdisciplinary, differentiated units that provide standards based learning for all students.
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Recipient: Alison Campbell-Woodward District: Deer Valley Unified School District School: Paseo Hills Elementary Project Title: GLOBE at Night Grant Amount Received: $ 9,381 |
Project Description: Paseo Hills will participate in a school wide investigation of light pollution. Kits have been ordered for student activities at all grades 1st through 8th. Students will also use sky quality meters to measure the light pollution shooting into our dark skies around the community. All data will be entered into an online data base that will contribute to an international picture of our GLOBE at night.
Recipient’s Bio: Alison has been teaching 7th grade Science for 6 years. Graduating from the University of Arizona with a BS in Science Education, she began teaching at a Title 1 school in Tucson. She eventually made her way back home to Phoenix where she is currently teaching at Paseo Hills Elementary. Alison is always looking for new and inventive ways to push her students academically. She is a life-long learning attending trainings from the AVID program, training for the International Baccalaureate program, working with the GK12 Program through ASU, attending training STEM for Teachers at Biosphere 2 and she usually dedicates her summers to teaching Biology at Xavier College Preparatory. Every year is different, but her class room is always filled with engagement.
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Recipient: Dave Flack
High School World History & Biology |
Project Description: Using Adaptive Curriculum, Second Life and a Ning Community, high school students will collectively explore, report, and publish for international audiences of teens. The class will have the ability to collaborate on projects that allow them to build their own interactive within a 3D gaming environment, Second Life Teen Grid. This environment will allow them to build interactive cell structures, viruses, life cycles, and other key biological concepts through a larger than life avatar experience. Experts from around the world will be invited into the virtual Second Life Teen Grid to serve as guest speakers and offer encouragement. Guests including NPR Science Fridays Host and PBS/Scholastic Magic School Bus animation producer will be invited to speak with the class.
Recipient’s Bio: Dave Flack has been teaching for over 16 years. Dave is currently an Inclusion Special Education Teacher who teams with teachers in the Biology and World History Department.
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Recipient: Shauna Hamman and Bethany Sole District: Apache Junction Unified School School: Gold Canyon Elementary School Project Title: Dark Skies Protectors Grant Amount Received: $ 8,750.38 |
Project Description: A collaborative group of second and fifth grade students will study the effects of light pollution in their community. They will use a variety of technologies to conduct research, compile data, and communicate their results, and will participate in the GLOBE at Night citizen-science event. Students will work with an astronomer to create and deliver educational presentations, in order to educate other students and community members about this issue. It is hoped that through this project, students will observe first-hand that relatively small changes make a large difference in combating an environmental problem.
Recipient’s Bio: Shauna Hamman is a fifth grade teacher at Gold Canyon Elementary School in the Apache Junction School District. She graduated from Northern Arizona University. Shauna spent the first 18 years of her working life as a paralegal in a law office, and started her teaching career only three years ago. Teaching is a new and exciting challenge every day, and she loves the way it allows her to exercise her creativity. She is married and has two daughters, one a sophomore in college and one a senior in high school.
Bethany Sole is in her third year of teaching at Gold Canyon Elementary School. She graduated from a tiny liberal arts college, Albright College, on the East coast where she was born and raised. Upon graduating with a degree in Elementary Education she did the ultimate road trip with her father to AZ. She found her nitch in the small town of Gold Canyon teaching 2nd graders. She is also an assistant swim coach for Lifetime Fitness Scottsdale.
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Recipient: Erik Hanchett District: Safford Unified School District School: Safford High School Project Title: Gila Valley Water Monitoring Project Grant Amount Received: $ 5,687.74 |
Project Description: Students from Graham, Greenlee and Cochise Counties that participate in the yearly Eastern Arizona Science Initiative (EASI) Summer Science Camp, will use Labquest technology to assist in conducting authentic science investigations in the Gila Valley Watershed Area. These activities will be assisted by partners from Eastern Arizona College, The Bureau of Land Management, Arizona Game and Fish, and the University of Arizona GLOBE representatives. The central purpose of this project is to assist EASI efforts to increase student involvement in STEM careers.
Recipient’s Bio: Erik Hanchett has been teaching Science and Math at Safford High School for 10 years and in the Gila Valley for 12 years. Erik has a deep interest in finding ways to involve students in authentic scientific activities. From 2007 to 2009 Erik was able to participate in the University of Arizona's AZSTART summer research program where he was able to assist scientists at the U of A Safford Agricultural Center in a variety of agricultural research projects. Using this and other experiences as a model Erik is currently developing projects that will give students real scientific research experiences. Last summer Erik had the unique opportunity to participate in the development and implementation of a science summer camp under the direction of the Eastern Arizona Science Initiative (EASI) organization for 5th – 8th grade students from the Tri-County Areas of Graham, Greenlee, and Cochise Counties. The camp was a huge success due to the collaborative efforts of many motivated and qualified individuals and organizations in the Tri-County Area. This year the camp will be extended to include scientific investigations of The Gila Box Riparian Area. The grant received will significantly increase the effectiveness of this project.
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