Grants for Equipment

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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A Sound Idea – Capturing Audio with Quality

Amount: $4,151 | Year: 2007 | School: ,

The Music and Performing Arts Department is granted money to be used for purchasing and installing stationary high quality hanging recording microphones in the High School/Middle School Choral, Orchestra and Band Rooms. These microphones will stay in each room. In addition, a secure, mobile cart will house a Multi-Channel Digital Track Recorder which can be […]

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LabQuest Interfaces for Motion, Forces and Energy

Amount: $3,741 | Year: 2007 | School:

In alignment with the current application of technology in the physics classroom, the next phase of implementation in the program is to allow for students to measure and record data outside of the bounds of the classroom. A brand new technology has been introduced by Vernier in the form of the LabQuest interface. The LabQuest […]

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Camcorder Collaboration – Preschool Disabilities Class

Amount: $750 | Year: 2006 | School: ,

This grant will enable teachers in the pre-school class for children with special needs, housed at Salt Brook school, to use a digital camcorder and tripod to accurately record student progress in given areas of development over time, in reference to various Individualized Education Plan goals and the acquisition of typical pre-school skills, as well […]

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Proscopes & Video Presentations

Amount: $6,894 | Year: 2006 | School: ,

The Biology Department will expand on the success of probes that were purchased with NPEF grants over the past two years, this year adding digital microscopes, called ProScopes, that provide digital images that can be displayed on a computer monitor or projected onto a screen.  These digital microscopes create immediate images that can be captured, […]

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