Mini-Grant Winners 2003

Marilyn Chappell, Let There Be Light
Let There Be Light is a hands-on third grade curriculum of 26 experimental activities on light and the Solar System. Students will use the USB scope to capture the experiments in pictures/video and incorporate those into a slide presentation. They will create text and add commentary. Students learn best by experimenting, retrying, creating, and evaluating their own work.

Susan Gibson, Student Digital Portfolios
This project is based on a current program using videocassettes for student portfolios. Each month the students in third grade prepare speeches on a given topic and record their speeches onto cassettes. By the end of the year, the students become confident, poised and polished speakers. Now that VHS video cameras are becoming obsolete and DVD players are readily available, this project will use a digital camcorder and DVD burner to continue recording the students' monthly speeches.

Kim Moya, Ellis Music Makers
Intermediate students in grades 3-5 will experience weekly music appreciation lessons that use Making Music software lessons to teach theory and music composing both visually and aurally. By the end of the school year students will compose their own compositions.

Sharon Regner, What It Means to Be An American
Fifth grade students will appreciate what it means to be an American in their social studies class via using computers, the Internet, and PDA's. They will design their own web pages for an interactive game, Colonial Jeopardy, and write persuasive articles posted at http://www.loma.k12.ca.us/LPS/regner/index.html.

Donna Taylor, Talking Links
Project "Talking Links" will involve 7th and 8th grade web publishing classes from Graham Middle School in creating interactive , individualized web sites to promote English language learning for dual immersion Kindergarten (K) students at Castro Elementary School.

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