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Grade |
Grant Name |
Grant Description |
Amount Awarded |
| High School |
9-12 |
International
Music Festival
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To cover the expenses of five orchestra students to attend the International Music Festival in Washington, DC. Orchestra students will spend the year working on music to be performed at the Festival, which will be held at the Kennedy Center in Washington in April of 2010. Students will sharpen their current skills and learn new skills in order to play the music. Work will be done in the regular classes as well as groups lessons and new teaching materials will be used on the newly-acquired SMART Board. |
$2,700 |
| High School |
9-12 |
Bioethics Club |
The proposed bioethics club would help to teach students about the moral dilemmas of certain biomedical controversies. Through seminars, lectureships and student run debates, club members would have the opportunity to explore in depth contemporary subjects relevant to the bioethics field. |
$1,450 |
| High School |
9-12 |
Television Studio Lighting |
The lighting in the television studio is inadequate for creating and recording television programming and because of this, the studio is not usable. The addition of this lighting equipment allow the students to use the studio room to its fullest extent. They will be able to expand upon and enhance their current programming, and expand upon the types of programming they might produce in the future. |
$2,500 |
| High School |
11-12 |
The Biotechnology Project |
To offer students hands-on experiences that will enhance and increase their knowledge of Genetic Engineering technologies. The materials requested will be utilized by students to explore, examine, and study the process of DNA separation through Electrophoresis. The equipment obtained will allow students to familiarize themselves with the skill of operating Biotechnology equipment. Students will study and understand the theory behind this separation process and will be able to explain and predict phenomena that relate to this process. |
$2,415 |
| High School |
10 |
The Telescope Project |
This project offers to give students the opportunity to carefully and protectively observe the Sun, its sunspots, its solar flares and its corona. Students will review and observe the chief characteristics of the Sun, record their observation, and summarize their responses as a class. |
$1,500 |
| SUB-TOTAL Grades 9-12 |
$10,565 |
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| Middle School |
6 |
Bells & Motley |
Building on the 6th grade social studies curriculum, students learn through music, dance, costume making and illumination what it was like to live in the Middle Ages. |
$6,650 |
| Middle School |
8 |
Hudson River Clearwater Classroom Programs |
This hand-on activity takes a look at the dynamic evolution of the Hudson River since the year 1609. Knowledge of the River's history, geology, and ecology provides the students with a real life connection and interest for both them and their family. |
$650 |
| Middle School |
7 |
Grade 7 Writers' Day |
To bring different writers into the school for a series of full-day or half-day workshops. Each writer will present what s/he does, and will then engage students in a hands-on project in which the students emulate the type of writing the professional would do in his/her daily work. Students will see the authenticity and viability of writing careers and enjoy a day that celebrates different types of writing. They will exit the session with the beginnings of a project based on their interests to be followed up in the classroom. |
$3,592 |
| Middle School |
7 |
Ashokan Field Campus |
Two groups of Grade 7 students would visit Ashokan and each group would have 5 activity periods such as pond ecology, forest ecology and watershed study as well as two evening programs. Living history activities focus on both the colonial experience and the Homestead period. Noncompetitive games, group initiatives and group problem solving activities, as well as a low ropes course would complement the character education initiatives at the Middle School. |
$15,630 |
| SUB-TOTAL Grades 6-8 |
$26,522 |
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| Main Street School |
5 |
Clearwater's Classroom of the Waves |
During a three hour sail on the Hudson River, fifth graders will have an opportunity to spend time learning about the Hudson River while being on the river, and this river experience will help recognize, reinforce and celebrate the Hudson River as a thematic unit of study during the school year. |
$5,000 |
| Main Street School |
5 |
Pay or Pollute Watershed Challenge & Water Pollution Cleanup Activity |
The Water Pollution Clean Up Activity is a hands-on activity where fifth graders come face-to-face with the realities of water pollution. This activity will be a great connection with the work the 5th graders do in their Ecosystems science unit as well as their participation in Snapshot Day 2009. It's hands-on, very practical, and is an outstanding stepping stone to the Pay or Pollute activity. Pay or Pollute Watershed Challenge is an activity that will help 5th graders better understand the delicate balance the Hudson River and people living and working in the Hudson River Valley who impact the River every day. This will help students better appreciate their future roles as river caretakers. |
$1,200 |
| Main Street School |
5 |
Lincoln Center |
Over the course of the school year, all teachers will meet with a guest artist from Lincoln Center to collaborate on classroom lessons connecting art to our study of the western hemisphere, creating a culminating activity such as an art show to showcase our learning. We are hoping students will make connections to our social studies curriculum. At the end of the unit, all students will visit a museum, and at a later time, our guest artist will help host "a gallery opening" for parents. Student work will be displayed throughout the school. |
$8,872 |
| Main Street School |
4 |
Stone Barns - 4th Grade Experience |
To allow 4th grade students to visit a working farm three times during the year. Each visit will concentrate on a different science curriculum related topic. Students will be introduced to hands-on farm work that will develop their understanding of ecological community-based food production. By visiting Stone Barn in different seasons, students will be able to observe how living things change and grow over time and how they adapt to weather and environment, and they will be able to witness the different stages of plant development and how planting in the fall culminates to large crops in the springtime. |
$4,950 |
| SUB-TOTAL Grades 4-5 |
$20,022 |
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| Dows Lane |
3 |
Family Math Night |
For one evening, parents and children will work cooperatively to solve fun-filled problems and to build an understanding of the importance of math in everyday life. The goal of this program is for students to have a deeper appreciation of mathematics while providing enriched learning time through family activities. |
$4,144 |
| Dows Lane |
K-3 |
School Bus Safety Training |
To purchase four bus safety video to be shown in classrooms and at other gatherings of K-3 students to supplement the SED-required bus drills and ensure that all students receive bus safety instruction. These videos will remain at Dows Lane for continued use in future years. |
$190 |
| Dows Lane |
K-3 |
Lincoln Center |
Teaching artists and classroom teachers will prepare students for a trip to the Katonah Museum of Art through a series of lessons that focuses on the principles and elements of art and how they relate to the pieces that they will view at the museum. Student will create individual pieces of clay art, and these pieces will be on display at Dows Lane and parent will be invited to school for a celebration of the exhibit. |
$8,800 |
| Dows Lane |
K-3 |
Intergenerational Community Garden |
To advance learning activities which demonstrate the interdependence between plants and animals in our ecosystem. Students will develop skills in cooperative learning and begin to make personal connections to their role in environmental stewardship. |
$5,000 |
| Dows Lane |
2 |
Bring Literature to Life |
The program gives all 2nd grade students the opportunity to take part in the theater process once a week over a ten-week period. Students will gain insight into theater with opportunities to write, rehearse, perform and understand the excitement, imagination and cooperation that goes into creating theater. |
$7,500 |
| Dows Lane |
K-2 |
Starlab |
Utilizing the Starlab study guide, kindergarten students will use the introductory unit, Patterns in the Sky - Simple Constellations, which will provide an overview of the stars visible in this area and would support a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction titles used at this level. First and second grade have reading activities that center on myths and legends and Starlab has programs for both Greek and Native American mythology. The students will gain a dramatic visual understanding of our solar system and universe along with activities directly related to the classroom curriculum. |
$2,415 |
| SUB-TOTAL Grades K-3 |
$28,049 |
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| Multiple Schools |
K-12 |
Wireless Theater Microphones |
Currently, the district owns two wired microphones, and any performing group or lecturer who requires the use of sound amplification in the theater is required to bring microphones and cables with them. Purchasing wireless microphones will also allow for greater student involvement. If wireless microphones reside in-house, students will be given the opportunity to perform in the role of sound engineer and will be able to take part in professional, true-to-life experiences in designing sound schematics and in taking part in pre-production decisions. |
$5,000 |
| SUB-TOTAL Multiple Schools |
$5,000 |
| 2009-2010 GRAND TOTAL |
$90,158 |
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