Beth Thompson and Steve Koutoulas completed their “Chemistry Car Connection” ARI mini grant project in December of 2014. The power point detailing their project has been uploaded.

Stephanie Hammonds and I wrote our grant to purchase LiveScribe Reading Pens and Quicktionary Pens to use with our high school special education students. We had the most success with the LiveScribe pens. We mainly used the pens to record vocabulary words, definitions and classroom notes which were then uploaded to Evernote and emailed to…Read More

My name is Tyler Little and I am an ARI mini grant recipient and STEM Fellow. My grant went towards the purchase of the Robotslab Math Basketball. The idea behind my grant was to incorporate mathematical lessons with a real world application of basketball in my classroom. The ball is capable of bringing to life both physics and math concepts. It…Read More

It was wonderful to work with KVEC educators at last Friday’s Action Research workshop. Dr. Kenneth Anderson, who joined us for the workshop and shared some ideas from his action research classes at Howard University, will likely subscribe to this Holler soon but in the meantime, he can be reached at [email protected]

The science unit of instruction I implemented was entitled Wondrous Waves: A Study of Sound. Through the implementation of first grade Next Generation Physical Science Standards, students participated in collaborative, interdisciplinary, relevant investigations relating sound. This includes developing an understanding of the way in sound…Read More