Project Description We are asking for funding for 1 Vex IQ Robotics starter kit to be used in our Information, Literacy, and Technology classes, reaching 686 BIS students as extension […]
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3rd Grade STEM
Project Description The funds from this grant would be used to purchase the Engineering is Elementary (EIE) curriculum kit called, “To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges”. This is […]
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We Like To Move It, Move It!
Project Description This project aims to inspire young scientists and engineers. Students will experience a hands-on, engaging unit of study on forces and motion. This cross curricular unit will address […]
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SeaPerch Marine Robotics
Project Description The Sea Perch program has developed kits and lessons for students to construct their own ROVs (remotely operated underwater vehicles). Students can enter their Sea Perch ROV into […]
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RMS Maker Space
Project Description Media Centers (the school library) are now a hub of learning at our school. In addition to taking out books and reading, students learn how to research, how […]
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Makerspace 3D
Project Description In an effort to continue in our priority to maintain a strong 21st century community of learning and college readiness, both the STEM Lab and the school library […]
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Shark Tank
Project Description ORRHS has created a new course in our ELA Department titled “Creativity, Innovation, and Inspiration”. The course is a half-year elective scheduled to begin in January. Creativity, Inspiration, […]
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Gathering Up STEAM
Project Description STEAM is the integration of Art into traditional STEM education. In the 2016 school year we are piloting an interdisciplinary STEAM program the connects upcycling school waste to […]
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Competitive Robotics with STEM Network
Project Description Build a competitive robotics team with the financial support to build robots for three different competitions that occur in the spring. Students will work as a group to […]
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Student Garden
Project Description At the start of Spring semester 2015, on behalf of a group of teachers, the principal of Nauset High School (Ed MacDonald) requested that my class design a […]
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Making Music with Sound Science
Project Description The objective of our project is to incorporate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) into the General Music curriculum by examining the way musical sound is created. This […]
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Dash and Dot Programming Robots
Project Description Three years ago, our students began Computer Science Coding courses on the Code.org website (www.code.org). Students have continued to amaze me with their stick to it attitude to […]
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Movies about Making in Mashpee with HUE Animation
Project Description The goal of getting HUE Animation Studio and creating portable green screens is for students to gain 21st century skills by collaborating with each other to communicate and […]
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Empowering Students to Globally Connect
Project Description The goal of this project is to provide items to make the lives of Laos high school students easier. High School students in Mashpee will collaborate with 1st […]
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Vernal Pools: Restoring Wetlands Habitats
Project Description For the past three years, the Lawrence School 7th grade Science teachers have partnered with the Massachusetts Audubon Society to provide classroom instruction to approximately 250 7th graders […]
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Lego Exhibition Wall
Project Description The goal of this project is to create Lego wall that will be housed in our bus lobby which houses our interactive Imagination Playground. It is our objective […]
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Creating, Designing, and Building in Kindergarten
Project Description We have planned a year-long project in which we will choose structures from around the world that draw attention to different types of architecture. Our vision is to […]
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Morse Pond Wishing Tree
Project Description The goal of this project is to create a large scale response to the topic of Arbor Day and our shared responsibility to the earth’s resources. Each school […]
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Everybody Designs, Engineers and Makes with Children’s Literature
Project Description The goal of this project is to get as many children involved in exploring their creative and inquisitive natures. Children will be designing, engineering and making using well […]
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All About Bourne-Service Learning Project
Project Description The goal of this project is to provide an authentic learning experience for high school students. Utilizing the resources at the Bourne Historical Society, students will research a […]
Read moreMosaic Wall
Project Description I would love to have my students create a large scale mosaic that can be shared with the community because it would be hung in the high school […]
Read moreBody Biology Project
Project Description Explore a rigorous interdisciplinary capstone project called the Body Biology Project. In this project, students design and implement their own investigation based on one or more body systems. […]
Read more3D Printing for Arduino Prototypes
Project Description Goals: 1. Students will learn how to use CAD software to design custom parts for mounting motors and sensors on Arduino Prototypes. 2. Students will learn to use […]
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Together we can MAKE a difference
Project Description Nauset Regional Middle School technology classes will require the 6-8th grade students to utilize all of their multimedia skills in a project-based learning activity where they identify a […]
Read moreThank You Cards
Project Description All the seventh grade students will create and write thank you cards. Polite ways to accomplish this often forgotten task are discussed. The activity is done in January, […]
Read moreSunny Times
Goals, objectives, and activities We wish to create a live sundial using attractive plantings bought locally. The Algebra and Pre-Algebra classes will design and engineer the sundial so as […]
Read moreSidewalk Mapping
Goals, objectives, and activities To draw and paint a map of Cape Cod and a map of Sandwich on the sidewalk at the entrance of the Oak Ridge School. […]
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Rocketry Club
2014 Update: Last year, with a Cape Cod 5 mini grant, I was able to engage a group of 15 students in an after school rocketry program. We spent the […]
Read moreManufacturing with Legos
Goals, objectives, and activities I have written and been using a curriculum unit that teaches manufacturing technology for the past two years. The content aligns with the Mass State […]
Read moreLighting Up Lawrence
Goals, objectives, and activities The purpose of this grant is to purchase Squishy Circuit kits and circuitry supplies for our Grade 7 Engineering Program. These supplies will allow us […]
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