Grants in Action

Maximizing Literacy Learning: SMART Boards & Projector

Amount: $4,280 | Year: 2008 | School:

The NPEF awarded a grant towards the purchase of a Smartboard to allow high school language arts teachers to maximize the learning environments of their classrooms. The use of the Smartboard provided enhanced teacher and student presentations, increased the amount of information and interdisciplinary awareness that comes into the classroom, and maximized the use of […]

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SMART Presentations: Television Production

Amount: $2,575 | Year: 2008 | School:

The interactive whiteboard seamlessly blends conventional class learning strategies at the board with the ability to interact, save and edit digital images on a computer. Visual learners see what is taking place as it unfolds, whereas those with poor visual skills benefit from the large display and the ability to highlight parts of an image. […]

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Phase III Smartboard Integration: Social Studies

Amount: $2,150
 | Year: 2008 | School:

Smartboard technology enhanced the Social Studies instruction through the use of interactive projection technology, provided a means to deliver specialized academic support, and allowed students to present research and historical analysis through programs such as PowerPoint, ABC-Clio, and Safari Montage.

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Mathematical Patterns as they Relate to the Real World Through the Use of Technology

Amount: $7,245 | Year: 2007 | School:

Patterns are one of the most important ideas studied in all disciplines. We are now recognizing the connection between biology and mathematics and how patterns discovered in math, for example, are directly related to the way viruses regenerate themselves. With the addition of new, advanced technology and Internet access, students from ninth grade through twelfth […]

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