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CULINARY HERB & PLANT GARDEN
$1,000, Mary Anderson, Karen Stavalone and Chris Casey,
Manchester High School, Grades 9-12
The Art, Family & Consumer Sciences, and Technology Education
Department, will work together creating a garden in the central
quad at MHS. The Art Department will create pottery, statuary
and plant labels. The Technology Department will design and
build raised wooden beds for plants and the Family & Consumer
Sciences Department will order and plant the herbs.
NUTMEG @ NIGHT
$600, Lisa Plavin, Library Media Department, All Elementary
Schools, Grades 4-6
Elementary librarians, working with the Town Libraries will
expand the Nutmeg@Night. During the first half of the school
year, students will read Nutmeg books (10 titles selected by CT
students and librarians). On the designated night, the students
will gather at the public library, where they’ll be assigned to
teams. Teams will be quizzed on the details of the Nutmeg
books. The winning teams will receive prizes and copies of the
Nutmeg books.
HISTORY VS. HOLLYWOOD – ENGLISH TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
$500, Charlie Vousden and Jayne Urso, Manchester High School,
Grade 12
History vs. Hollywood will be an alternate class to traditional
Senior English. Students will research film clips and other
visual materials and research their authenticity, artistic and
thematic merit. Students will review films to determine which
parts are historically accurate and what parts are fictionalized
or sensationalized. Students will complete a research paper and
presentation as part of their grade.
READING COUNTS
$1,500, Sandy Lambert, Tammy O’Malley and Kim Lewis
Washington Media Arts Magnet School,
Grades K-5
On
the first day of school, all students in K-5 will receive a
book, reading log and digital timers to track how much time they
read. Parents will also be invited to the first day to learn
about the importance of reading with their children, and hear
about the “Reading Counts” program. Throughout the year,
students and families will read together nightly and monitor
their progress. Teachers will monitor reading time through the
logs and evaluate student progress.
MULTIMODAL VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT THROUGH MULTICULTURAL TEXTS
$250, Tara Lemkin, Highland Park Elementary School, Grade K
Each month, teachers will read students a book about a different
culture, then follow up with a vocabulary lesson. To help
students better understand what they have been reading, the
lessons will use more than one modality of experience (hearing,
felling, moving, etc.). This ties in with current research on
the importance of early vocabulary expansion, and ties into the
school’s theme of multiple intelligences.
CHUCKLES GOES TO COLLEGE
$1,000, Eileen Griffin, Mathew Atkins and Chelsea Jasek,
Verplanck
Elementary School, grade 5
Following up on a book written last year, about Chuckles the
Groundhog going to school on Groundhog Day, students will write
a sequel focused on diversity. Students will work on a book
together, beginning a research project in September, reading and
searching for Internet for information, interviewing family
members to understand cultural histories.
HOVERCRAFT
$1,500, Beth Penney, Manchester High School, Grades 11-12
Students will build a personal hovercraft allowing students to
apply theoretical knowledge acquired in the classroom. Students
will complete a semester of theory learning, lab experiments and
exams, and during the second semester will be devoted to
designing and building a hovercraft. Students will demonstrate
ability to work in a team, trouble shoot and apply knowledge
learned during the year.
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