Summary of Projects Funded For Grades 7 - 12
2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996

•    September 1996

National Science Teacher's Association (Washington, D.C.)
Project Date: September 1996- August 1997

$20,000.00 to facilitate the production of a teacher's manual that will be distributed to teachers free of charge in order to demon- strate how the Toshiba/NSTA Exploravision competition can be utilized as a teaching tool to further educational ideas.

Fund for New York City Public Education (New York, NY)
Project Date: September 1996- July 1997

$18,180.00 for eight "Toshiba Science Grants" that will be provided to teachers interested in changing their classrooms into active learning math and science laboratories where students learn to ask questions, test their ideas, draw conclusions, and solve problems.

Discovery Science Center (Santa Ana, CA)
Project Date: October 1, 1996- June 30, 1997

$13,500.00 to improve math and science education for 2600 middle and high school students by providing students with two Resource Enhancement Modules that focus on earthquakes and water quality, thus exposing students to real life investigations and a forum for interactive learning.

Girls Incorporated (New York, NY)
Project Date: September 20, 1996- July 31, 1997

$12,000.00 to implement a non-traditional math and science program that will allow 150 girls in grades 7-12 to learn various math and science principles via hands-on activities i.e., understanding the mechanics of a bicycle, and designing and building a solar car.

Ulster County Board of Cooperative Educational Activities (New Paltz, NY)
Project Date: September 1, 1996- June 30, 1997

$10,590.00 for a interdisciplinary project that will encourage 100 junior and senior students to utilize techniques of cooperative learning during their construction of a "hybrid" electric car, thus exposing students to various aspects of pre-engineering, electronics, small engines, automotive technology, and welding.

Pahokee Middle Senior High School (Pahokee, FL)
Project Date: October 15, 1996- October 14, 1997

$10,000 to engage 250 high school students in a field study where they will monitor and conduct research about the water and soil quality of a local lake, thus preparing students to determine the level of contaminants in the water and identify the lakes polluted areas.

Broadway Middle School (October 1996-September 1997)
Project Date: October 1996- September 1997

$10,000.00 to benefit 720 seventh and eighth grade students via the implementation of the Math/Science Greenhouse project where students will conduct interdisciplinary, student driven, real world math and science experiments as they explore topics such as, pollination, vegetation types, and land use and composting.

High School For Leadership and Public Service (New York, NY)
Project Date: September 1996- June 1997

$10,000.00 to facilitate the implementation and adaptation of the regents chemistry curriculum by providing students with a plethora of chemicals and equipment which will be used to conduct various science experiments.

Friendship Christian School (Lebanon, TN)
Project Date: September 23, 1996- June 1, 1997

$9,000.00 to improve math and science education for 284 students in grades 7-12 by promoting interdisciplinary investigations through interactive technology i.e., Galileo Interface Software that will facilitate student understanding of the relationship between pressure and temperature.

Tallwood High School (Virginia beach, VA)
Project Date: October 3, 1996- June 12, 1997

$7,960.00 to improve math and science learning for 220 students by implementing a Calculator Based Laboratory where students will use graphing calculators, collect, analyze, and incorporate data obtained during science labs and change the information into graphical and mathematical forms.

Ganesha High School (Pomona, CA)
Project Date: September 1996- June 1997

$7,370.00 to improve science education for 170 ninth grade students by providing them with the opportunity to conduct a water quality analysis of San Antonio Canyon where they will participate in various activities i.e., test the water for its level of nitrate, phosphate and oxygen pH.

Cheltenam High School (Wyncote, PA)
Project Date: October 1996- June 1997

$7,200.00 to enrich the science curriculum for 300 tenth grade biology students by integrating the use of software, interactive probeware, and CD-ROM programs to offer students the opportunity to engage in a myriad of experiential activities i.e., using computer simulation to age themselves and predict the changes that will occur.

Arlington High School (Riverside, CA)
Project Date: September 23- June 15, 1996

$4,280.00 to help improve science learning for 100 Advanced Placement Biology Students in grades 11-12 during their field study at James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve where they will investigate and explore nature using the techniques of a professional field biologist.

James Martin High School (Arlington, TX)
Project Date: November 4, 1996- January 15, 1997

$3,610.00 to enhance the Advanced Placement biology program for 280 students in grades 10-12 by providing students with the opportunity to utilize interactive technology such as software that includes Genetic Engineering, Karyotypes/ Genetic Disorders to conduct research and create a multimedia presentation.

Muskegon Area Intermediate School (Muskegon, MI)
Project Date: September 1996- November 1997

$5,000 to improve science learning for 1,500-2,000 students by facilitating their comprehension and recognition of the laws of physics during a trip to the amusement park where they will collect, analyze, and evaluate data relating to physics concepts that were learned in the classroom.

      •   August, 1996

Lanier Middle School (Houston, TX)
Project Date: August 16, 1996 - June 30, 1997

$5,000 to submerge 30-40 eighth grade students into an active and dynamic learning environment that starts with the most basic concepts of solar energy, gradually changes to electricity, and finally focuses on motorized transportation.

Villa Park High School (Villa Park, CA)
Project Date: October 1, 1996 - June 1, 1997

$2,450 to provide 300 10th and 11th grade Biology students with improved classroom teaching of evolution by encouraging them to conceptualize and visualize the changes that have occurred in humans via the examination of various skull models.

New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, NY)
Project Date: August 16, 1996 - October 15, 1997

$5,000 to provide 2000 students with the opportunity to learn botany and ecology via a Forest Tour Program that will allow students to explore New York botanical Garden's forty acre tract of first-growth forest.

Central High School (botanical, PA)
Project Date: August 16, 1996 - June 30, 1997

$2,600 to improve science learning for 32 students in grades 11-12 by providing them with practical experience in using selected forms of biological instrumentation to make measurements, collect data and solve biological problems.



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