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Request for Proposals -- September 10, 2010 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 (2010 – 2011), 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 downloaded here. The application form is available here for downloading.

NOTE: This year all applications must be typed (not hand-written)and submitted electronically (pdf or MSWord) via email to Jane Horwitz (janeh@sas.upenn.edu).

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 28, 2011. 

 

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Dr. Larry Gladney, Director
University of Pennsylvania, Department of Chemistry
231 South 34 Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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