Grants Program

Request for Proposals -- September 11, 2009 Application Deadline

The Penn STI Mini-Grants program invites current and past participants (MCEP or MISEP) or MCE Graduates to apply for grants of up to $1,000 to purchase equipment, materials or supplies for middle and high school science teaching.

For the coming school year (2009 – 2010), we anticipate awarding approximately 20 grants to enable teachers to initiate a new curriculum or innovative, inquiry-based lessons in their classrooms. The information sheet can be viewed and downloaded here. The application form is available here for viewing and downloading.

Examples of the projects funded in 2008-9 are:

• Personal response systems used to enhance science lessons at the middle and high school levels

• Podcasts providing students in a conceptual science track with the opportunity to express their scientific understanding in alternative ways

• A portable visual presentation device allowing teacher to model directions for activities, present information, and enhance objects used in lessons

• Flip* video cameras to be used by students to explore and record science labs from their own perspectives (*Registered Trademark)

• Probeware allowing middle school students to investigate Newton's Laws of Motion through the integration of science, math and technology

• An evaluation of the use of molecular models for the purpose of improving students’ understanding of matter at the particulate level

• Digital video cameras for recording conversations and activities, encouraging co-generative dialogues in high school science classrooms

Grant recipients make a presentation on the implementation and evaluation of their classroom projects on July 15, 2010. 

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