Grants for Science

Robotics Module – Phase II: NXT Robotics

Amount: $6,364 | Year: 2008 | School:

In 2004, utilizing a NPEF grant, the NP Middle School introduced a Robotics module “RoboChallenge: Race Against Time”, a challenging, hands-on, minds-on, standards based science unit designed to instill teamwork and problem-solving skills. The module builds on the experiences of the 4th grade ‘robotics’ and 6th grade ‘models and designs’ curriculum units and helps nurture […]

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Micro Dome – A View Port to the Universe

Amount: $2,400 | Year: 2008 | School: ,

For the last three years the students at NP Middle and High Schools have been able to view the power of the Hayden Planetarium by having Aram Freidman, the former engineering director of the Hayden Planetarium, produce the three dimensional universe in the classroom. The program helps students understand the 3D relationship of the Earth […]

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Investigating the Biological Sciences using ProScopes

Amount: $4,499
 | Year: 2008 | School:

The NPEF has awarded several grants over the last four years for the purchase of ProScopes (digital microscopes) and Vernier Probes that help increase the technological skills of the students, bring a more modern and realistic setting to the classroom laboratory, increase the students’ observational, analytical, and drawing skills, and raise the students’ critical thinking […]

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Science Days ’08

Amount: $1,291 | Year: 2008 | School:

The grant was used to develop and present seven Science Days, one for each grade level from K through 6, at Allen W. Roberts School. Students rotated in small groups from station to station in order to study and experience exciting scientific experiments and hands-on activities that support and enhance the science curriculum.

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Increasing the Scope of Understanding through Science Technology

Amount: $1,800 | Year: 2008 | School:

The goal of this program was to increase the students’ use of technology within the science class and provide them with the opportunity to further develop scientific process skills and technological literacy. By integrating ProScope Digital Microscopes into the curriculum, it allowed for more productive, accurate, and higher quality resolutions and images when studying macro- […]

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