| Literature in Math & Science |
Vickie Clark |
Lakewood Elementary |
| Students
will have the opportunity to read individually and in groups while exploring
math and science themes. |
| |
| GIS in Action |
Ben Johnson |
Bob Jones High School |
| Students will learn how to
procure field data and utilize GIS software in the hopes of collaborating
with the city of Madison |
| on projects to enrich both the
city and the students. |
| |
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| Teaching Science Through
Children's Literature |
Jennifer Lindsey |
J.E. Williams Middle School
|
| The students will be able to
use the age leveled readers to learn
about plants and animals to integrate science concepts into reading. |
| The literature is augmented
with directed stations for extension activities. |
| |
| Lights, Camera, Action! |
Nancy Honea |
New Hope Elementary |
| An
iCam Digital System will be used to project images of slides and lab
experiments from the classroom. By
viewing a |
| smartboard
the students will be able to bring textbook pictures to life through this
exciting 3D technology. |
| |
| Listening to Science |
Gena Davis |
Legacy Elementary |
| A
listening center will allow students to listen to the science text that is
being covered in the classroom. |
| This center will be particularly useful for
the inclusion students who are not in the classroom during the science
lesson. |
| |
| Live, Love & Learn |
Carla Smith |
Legacy Elementary |
| Students will be building a
butterfly garden complete with a compass rose. This outdoor classroom will be
available for the whole school |
| to enjoy and study. |
| |
| Math & Science
"Hands-On" Supplies |
Paula Kilgore |
McDonnell Elementary |
| Manipulatives
will engage 1st graders while
learning concepts ranging from adding, subtracting and comparing lengths to |
| understanding how flowers
grow. Sharing with her fellow team
teachers will further the benefits to the students. |
| |
| Sherlock Bones |
Belinda Sewell |
Bob Jones High School |
| Students
will perform the techniques of forensic anthropologists on sets of skeletal
remains to determine race, sex, height, and |
| approximate age at time of
death. They will have the opportunity
to use precision instruments in their investigations. |
| |
| Making a Small World |
Angela Bennett |
Rainbow Elementary |
| Students
will be using their architectural skills and knowledge of metric measurements
and scales to plan and construct a |
| home, classroom and outdoor
park for a group of tiny people who live in a centimeter oriented world. |
| |
| FUNdamental Math &
Science |
Carol Lindstrom Caruso |
Madison County Career Technical Center |
| 10th-12th grade students
enrolled in TEACH ALABAMA will have
12 manipulatives to utilize while working with kindergarten and first |
| graders on math and science
objectives. High schoolers will learn
the importance of interactive instruction in math and science. |
| |
| Look What I Can Do |
Elizabeth Orbison |
Riverton Elementary |
| The
space glove exploration box allows students to experience activities that
astronauts encounter while using their gloves. This |
| hands-on
space exploration will bring an astronaut's experience not only to her
students, but to the entire school. |
| |
| Hooked on
Science |
Elizabeth Orbison |
Riverton Elementary |
| Science stations to include
skeletal puzzles, prisms, magnets, rock collections and more will encourage
young scientists to develop their |
| inquiry
process and increase their observation skills. |
| |
| Out of This World |
Elizabeth Orbison |
Riverton Elementary |
| An
inflatable solar system experience complete with an shuttle and space suits will provide a fun environment to study
how the earth |
| revolves around the sun. Puzzles of the system and shuttle as well
as models of space exploration vehicles heighten the experience. |
| |
| "Seeing" Quantum
Numbers |
Carol Bohatch |
Bob Jones High School |
| Using a lab kit, students will
construct quantum numbers and build models for particular atoms. The ability to visualize the shape, size
and |
| location of the atomic orbits
will help students describe atoms using electron configurations. |
| |
| Hands-On Math |
Mary Davis |
Mt Carmel Elementary |
| Instant
reinforcement is the goal for the manipulatives which will be used to teach
math concepts ranging from place values, geometric |
| patterns and figures,
categorical and numerical data, equivalent fractions and tables and graphs. |
| |
| Get the Picture? |
Teresa Tarter |
Bob Jones High School |
| Calculus students will benefit
from the document camera by projecting their presentation images onto the
board directly from their work |
| rather
than tediously copying previously completed steps. They will also be able to visualize 3D concepts such as volumes
of solids. |
| |
| Thrills & Chills Without
the Spills |
Penny Hill |
Mountain Gap Middle School |
| After
researching the physics of roller coasters online, students will make a
PowerPoint presentation covering design, force and motion |
| and statistics. They will then collaborate with classmates
to build a replica roller coaster using K'NEX building sets. |
| |
| Hands-On Science for Lifelong
Learning |
Marilee Wade Ward |
Hazel Green Elementary |
| Materials such as mirrors, lens
kits, and prisms will help students contrast the way light is bent by concave
and convex lenses. Cylinders, |
| scales and beakers will allow
students to calculate the density of objects and engage them in their science
curriculum. |
| |
| Students' Brains
"POP" with Knowledge |
Leann L. Childers |
Roger B. Chaffee Elementary School |
| A years subscription for the
computer lab will provide students with more than 600 learning opportunities
on topics from the food pyramid |
| to telling time. "Brain Pop Jr." provides
animated movies and supporting quizzes, word walls, comic strips, games and a
writing notebook. |
| |
| Rithmatic Rap |
Bertha Massey |
West Madison Elementary |
| Students
will learn to act out number stories and then join sets of objects, applying
addition and subtraction signs. They
will use number |
| cards
to make up number sentences and will participate in the "Rithmatic
CD" to memorize addition and subtraction facts. |
| |
| Hands-On Standards
Intervention Kit |
Teresa Denman |
Hazel Green Elementary |
| Special
needs students in 1st and 2nd grades will use blocks for counting and
patterns, scales for weighing, and fraction pieces to put |
| together and separate. The manipulatives assist these special
learners with their math skills and classroom success. |
| |
| One Small Step for a Teacher;
One Giant Leap for Students |
Carla Smith |
Legacy Elementary |
| Students
will construct rockets, launch them from a launch pad, and recover their
rockets to encourage love of science and space |
| exploration. They will measure speed, distance and
direction of their rockets using stopwatches, meter sticks and
compasses. |
| |
| States of Matter for All
Learners |
Melissa Mann |
Madison County Elementary |
| Students
will make ice cream using blocks, beakers and balloons to conduct experiments
on melting, freezing, condensation and
|
| evaporation. This hands-on approach will help students
identify the three common states of matter. |
| |
| Composting |
Heather White & Barbara O'Guin |
Academy for Science & Foreign Language |
| The
students will research waste disposal and food chains while developing ideas
for best and worst additions to a compost pile for the |
| school. Each week students will stir the compost
bed and once materials are composted they will add them to the school's
garden beds. |
| |
| I'm a Fan of Acceleration |
Jane Caudle |
Discovery Middle School |
| Students will produce a data
table after determining speed, time and distance of a plastic car raced along
a track. They will show positive |
| and
negative acceleration on a real timeline and explain the effects of adding
mass and/or force to the car using Newton's Laws of Motion. |
| |
| Twenty-First Century
Classroom |
Philip Givens |
Huntsville Middle School |
| Using
an Elmo (an updated overhead projector) will allow teachers to use class time
more effectively by eliminating the need to copy |
| graphs to a transparency or
write numerical or word problems on the board. It will also provide clearer images of numbers and graphs. |
| |
| Bizworld |
Karen Colvin |
Heritage Elementary |
| Students
will learn basics of money management and entrepreneurship as they design,
manufacture, market and sell their products in the |
| Bizworld marketplace. Students work together to start and run
their own small business in a simulated friendship bracelet industry. |
| |
| Real Life Math: Cash or
Credit? |
Kelly Reasner |
Monrovia Elementary |
| Games
will be used to teach the pros and cons of credit cards, balancing checkbooks
and grocery and department store math.
Students |
| will work in small groups and
rotate stations daily to encourage active participation. |
| |
| My Tree |
Jim Montague |
Central School
|
| After a photography lesson from
a local expert, students will take up to 10 pictures of trees, have them
developed and choose one to |
| present for a class
publication. They will complete a
research paper and will be revisited by the photography expert for photo
critiques. |
| |
| Math Sounds Good to Me |
Crystal Wright |
Challenger Middle School |
| Students
collaborating with a classroom in Canada use their counterparts to reinforce
math learning. Through an online
program they |
| bounce
ideas for solving problems and correct peer mistakes using the computers and
headsets to instantly communicate. |
| |
| Get Real! Real Life Math for
Middle Schoolers |
Martha Brooks |
Whitesburg Middle School |
| Using
projects to integrate math concepts of geometry, algebra, and data analysis
will help middle school students remain engaged in the |
| classroom. These books provide numerous activities
and break them into ability level appropriateness. |
| |
| Learning About Light and
Lenses |
Jackie Smith |
Columbia Elementary School |
| Students
will use light boxes to make observations of the effects of lenses on
light. Students will gather data
and create charts. |
| They
will build a functioning periscope with PVC pipe and mirrors to direct a beam
of light around the room and out the door. |
| |
| Elmo in the Science Classroom |
Barbara A Murphy |
Stone Middle School |
| |
| Menu Math and More |
Rebecca Campbell |
Lincoln Elementary School |
| Enrichment math centers will
engage students through using real-life shopping situations using menus,
store prices, and music. These |
| stations
will introduce consumer math through practical applications. |
| |
| Graphic Display Calculators |
Julie Summers |
Columbia High School |
| Graphic
display calculators will be used to perform tasks during lab and fieldwork
experience and value based investigations as well as to |
| analyze
data with standard deviation, probability, linear regressions, and
interpreting frequency charts. |
| |
| LOL |
Karen Hill |
New Hope Elementary |
| Using mini-labs to introduce
science concepts such as moon phases, ocean floors, groundwater contamination
and weather studies; these |
| students will be able to have a laboratory experiences in the
classroom even when their school is without a lab. |
| |
| Make-It Relate |
Tanya Clement |
New Hope Elementary |
| Games
and activities will help middle school students with real-life math concepts
like allowance, bank accounts, measurement, |
| geometry, fractions, decimals
and graphs. All materials are
non-consumable and will be made available to all teachers in the school. |
| |
| Let's Go Shopping |
Tysha Douglass |
Riverton Elementary |
| Students
will use local menus to solve different scenarios and navigate sales tax, tip
and discounts. They will also create
a mini grocery |
| and
develop a budget as well rotate to staff the necessary positions for
operating their grocery store. |
| |
| Teaching Innovative Math Skills |
Jennifer Steele |
Weatherly Heights Elementary |
| Preschoolers will get a jump on
math skills while playing with the TouchMath kit. They will have a tactile avenue to show comprehension |
| of math concepts. |
| |
| The "Write" Keys
for Me |
Dawn Davison Brown |
Farley Elementary |
| Scholastic
Keys is the child friendly version of Microsoft Office and will be used to
enhance a science unit on butterflies by allowing |
| students to write about the
metamorphosis process, make a slide show, and record daily data into a
spreadsheet. |
| |
| Human Reproduction and
Development |
Tracy Chastain |
Monrovia Middle School |
| Life sized models of babies in
stages of development from fetus to birth will be used to introduce human
reproduction and development. |
| In addition to the models, the
kit also provides teaching guides, study guides and a multimedia presentation
of subject matter. |