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

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

Valuing Probeware and Energy in Biology (9-12th Grade)

In this particular proposal, I plan to purchase materials, lab and probeware basics, for students to complete an investigation and analysis on the major biological concept of cellular nutrition and energy obtainment.
In the investigation students will understand that fundamental life…Read More

My class is already having a great time implementing our grant resources. We are using a 3D printer–a Flashforge Finder, which is a great 3D printer. My students can’t believe that a printer can produce a tangible 3D object. This is a great project! The following is a overview of our grant–Redefinition–the Next Dimension: One of my teacher…Read More