Project Title: The “IncrEDIBLES” Cooking Club

LBJ Elementary School’s MSD students are creating a cooking club. The students will perform tasks such as meal planning, budgeting for groceries, food preparation, cooking, and clean up. The hopes of this club is to help build self-confidence in students who have a moderate to severe disability. Th…Read More

Students have begun to Size It Up Right as they research some of the tallest buildings in the world. To increase their understanding of scale models, students are creating scale models of Willis Tower, Burj Khalifa, Lotte Tower, etc.

I Like to Move It, Move It! Brain-based Classroom Redesign

Research Question: Does flexible seating and student choice help to engage the learner, help students become more responsible for their choices, and become better problem solvers?

With this grant I plan to purchase new, updated, comfortable seating for my classrooms. I want to redesign…Read More

Each year, I try to think of innovative ways to encourage students to become life-long lovers of reading. Through the ARI grant, I have been allowed to purchase a wide variety of literature circle reading materials. I know the reading materials I purchased will be high interest. How do I know this? Student voice. Students chose the titles…Read More

Think About It, Then Talk About It: Content Driven Inquiry Leading to CER Strategies in Science

This grant has been designed around multiple investigations in which students will focus on core concepts of Cell Biology. First they will discover patterns of diffusion, which results from the random movement of molecules and other small particles.…Read More