Chaminade College Preparatory School (Chatsworth, CA)
Project Dates: February 15, 1999 - June 15, 1999

$2,200 for 100 students to demonstrate the relationships of the sides of a right triangle using the Pythagorean Thoery; to find the area and perimeter of rectangles, squares, and parrallelograms; and to explore the concept of symmetry by creating and manipulating geometric and mathematical models using an interactive geometry software program.

Gifford Middle School (Vero Beach, FL)
Project Dates: December 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$3,550 for 100 students to study plant processes by performing measurements to relate how plant growth is affected by temperature, nutrient solution concentration, water and light by setting up chambers in which they will grow and monitor Brassica Rapa, Apogee, Super Dwarf, and Astro plants to simulate the process of space farming on the moon.

Queens Vocational Technical High School (Long Island City, NY)
Project Dates: November 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$1,805 for 55 students to utilize math and science skills (percents, mathematical notation, scientific notation, significant figures, Ohm’s Law) to complete a series of experiments in electronics.

Mountain View High School (Vancouver, WA)
Project Dates: January 1, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$2,510 for 50 students to apply the relationship between circumference, diameter, perimeter, and apothem to determine area; to use area formulas for triangles, circles, parallelograms, and regular polygons; and to determine the volume of three dimensional spaces utilizing formulas for the cylinder, prism, sphere, cone, and pyramid as part of their design and enhancement of a local park.

Central Falls High School (Central Falls, RI)
Project Dates: October 15, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$2,150 for 70 students to monitor the pH, dissolved oxygen, mineral and toxic substances, temperature, and water turbidity of a local river, utilizing scientific probes to collect and use data to interpret the results of various experiments.

St. Anne’s School (Porterville, CA)
Project Dates: November 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$3,000 for 52 students to culture mushrooms, yeast, and mold to determine the factors necessary for each to mature and reproduce; to investigate atomic/molecular structure as the basis for the further study of the principles of chemistry, including pH, ionic and covalent bonding, isomerism and balanced chemical equations; and to explore the structure of the DNA molecule by building a two dimensional model.

Alcott Academy (Wichita, KS)
Project Dates: November 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$1,200 for 90 students to observe, touch, and study real fossils, create a mold and cast new fossils, conduct a lab simulation to discover how ice functions as a preservative in forming fossils, and to conduct research using laser discs and the internet to prepare descriptive reports and journals.

Arrowhead West (Lake Havasu City, AZ)
Project Dates: November 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$2,500 for 40 students to hone their math skills using software as part of a field survey of plants, soil types, and desert tortoises in which they will use math to extrapolate the approximate number of plants and animals in the area.

    •   September 1998

Alhambra High School (Alhambra, CA)
Project Dates: October 1, 1998 - October 1, 1999

$13,000 for 108 students to use electrophoresis to construct a DNA fingerprint, and to perform bacteria transformation as part of a hands-on forensic and medical detection labs that culminate in solving a crime and identifying the mystery pathogen of a disease outbreak.

Los Angeles Southwest Middle College High School (Los Angeles, CA)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - September 15, 1999

$10,000 for 120 students to conduct 24 hands-on physical science experiments and investigations covering topics such as force, energy, momentum, time constraints, applied mechanics, and applied hydraulics, making use of existing computers with new interfaces, probes, and sensors.

Trinity Lutheran School (St. Louis, MO) Project Dates: November 1, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$11,860 for 70 students from three schools to learn the relationships among force, drag, lift, and gravity; hypothesize the effects airplane wing-shape and surface area will have counteracting the effect of gravity when in an atmosphere and in a vacuum; predict the effects that different avionics will have upon the direction, motion, and speed of an airplane in flight; and use Charles' Law to explain decreased lift capacity of an airplane wing as air temperature increases, by cooperating in the construction, testing, and flight of an ultralight airplane.

Forsyth County Public School System (Cumming, GA)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$6,110 for 1000 students to work cooperatively to make sense of abstract math; to identify the use of a variable as a place holder in algebraic expressions, equations, and inequalities; and to solve singe- and multi-step algebraic equations by selecting and using appropriate problem solving strategies and tools.

Cypress Fairbanks Independent School District (Houston, TX)
Project Dates: October 10, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$12,400 for 8,300 students from 10 middle schools to measure the effects of the atmosphere on the cooling rate of the earth’s surface; to examine the salinity, depth, and temperature of the ocean; and explore the pulse, respiration, and blood pressure of the human body using calculator-based lab units and probeware.

Kettering Middle School (Upper Marlboro, MD)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$4,000 for 1500 students to identify structures and functions of plant and animal cells, explain the processes by which cells exchange substances with their environment , and describe the processes of mitosis, meiosis, genetic recombinations, and end products with the aid of flexcam microvideo packages that will enhance images from microscopes.

Burlington High School (Burlington, WI)
Project Dates: January 15, 1999 - January 15, 2000

$13,560 for 130 students to apply mathematical skills to vectors; solve problems that involve motion under constant acceleration, define and apply Newton’ Three Laws of Motion with the use of free body diagrams; use rotational equilibrium to calculate the sums of the torques about a given point; use the Law of Conservation of Momentum to solve problems on rocket propulsion and object collisions; and solve circuit diagrams using Ohm’s Law and Kirchoff’s rules, with the aid of new equipment such as a pendulum, engraved precision force tables, introductory dynamics systems, and wave tank sets.

Fort Bend Independent School District (Sugar Land, TX)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$11,620 for 9032 students from four schools to determine the effects of pH change under different biological conditions; illustrate the significance of the heat absorbing capacity of water to biological systems; and will examine the significance of temperature changes in a compost pile as it relates to the destruction of pathogens in human waste composting, by modifying and updating existing labs with instrumentation similar to that used in industry and research labs.

St. John the Baptist School (Plumboro, PA)
Project Dates: November 1, 1998 - November 1, 1999

$8,480 for 115 students to explore mathematical and scientific relationships between distance, velocity, acceleration, and time, using data collected from activities they perform with the aid of a calculator-based laboratory system and microscopes.

Wildlife Conservation Society’s New York Aquarium (Brooklyn, NY)
Project Dates: October 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$9,000 for 525 students to study taxonomy, zoology, water chemistry, ecology, and marine invertebrate ecology by conducting in-class experiments in preparation for testing and application at a local wildlife center and living laboratory.

Eleanor Roosevelt Intermediate School 143 (New York, NY)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - July 1, 1999

$9,500 for 150 students to explore the interactions between organ systems in the human body; investigate the design, materials, and forces that keep structures standing; and examine waste management as part of a cooperative, inquiry-based science program which carefully baances between orderly, structured lessons and freedom of investigation with the aid of accessible, traditional laboratory materials.

Arlington Career Center (Arlington, VA)
Project Dates: October 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$6,000 for 150 students to participate in highly interactive, constructivist, developmental internet biology, earth science, and physics programs that will allow them to make changes to the simulated dynamic systems; and through observation and measurement, determine the impacts of those changes.

The Lab School of Washington (Washington, DC)
Project Dates: October 1, 1998 - May 15, 1999

$8,000 for 125 students to investigate the effects of water level on the growth of wetland plants, and study the processes of evapotranspiration, heavy metal absorption, toxin filtration, nitrate processing, and oxygen release in a wetland that will be restored on school grounds with wildflowers and native grasses selected and grown in the campus greenhouse.

Chazy Central Rural School (Chazy, NY)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - May 15 1999

$6,300 for 30 students to research: the effects of phosphates and nitrates as pollutants in Lake Champlain, and their source from the surrounding watershed; the effects of acid rain in the region; the soil types in their watershed; the impact of dissolved oxygen in bodies of water, and the effect of water treatment systems on water that passes through them before entering the lake.

Troy High School (Troy, OH)
Project Dates: September 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$1,020 for 165 students to relate molecular structure to intermolecular force, strength, and properties; to determine the relative viscosity of oil samples with different carbon chain length; and explain the petroleum refining process and the isolation of the gasoline fraction in terms of intermolecular forces, boiling point, and carbon chain length of alkane molecules using CBL probes.

Post Falls High School (Post Falls, ID)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$2,800 for 105 students to develop an ease with number relationships, and to explore the concept of combining like terms, distributive property, and polynomial multiplication using algebra tiles and other manipulatives.

James Martin High School (Arlington, TX)
Project Dates: October 1, 1998 - February 15, 1999

$3,800 for 230 students to develop their understanding of transformation, chromatography, electrophoresis, and molecular biology by performing innovative biotechnological experiments and interactive laboratory activities using local researchers as resources.

Highland View Academy (Hagerstown, MD)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - May 15, 1999

$3,000 for 40 students to reinforce core concepts in chemistry by conducting experiments with materials and situations that relate to their lives, such as determining the pH of swimming pool water after a heavy rain, after several people have been swimming, or after ‘shocking’ pool water.

Leakesville Junior High School (Leakesville, MS)
Project Dates: September 15, 1998 - May 15, 1999

$1,950 for 108 students to work cooperatively to investigate the density of water, viscosity, and the three stages of matter by conducting a series of hands-on experiments with household materials.

    •   August 1998

Guilderland High School (Guilderland Center, NY)
Project Dates: September 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$4,050 for 200 students to collect samples of pH, temperature, and conductivity on a local stream, and to determine dissolved oxygen, phosphate, and nitrate concentrations using CBL’s and Assay Kits, analyzing the data over long periods of time to show trends using
statistical software.

Mayo High School (Rochester, MN)
Project Dates: September 1,1998 - March 1, 1999

$2,650 for 150 students to explore the geology, wildlife, oceanography, and meteorology of Antarctica by conducting in-class experiments (on fish physiology, sensory deprivation, heat transfer) and communicating
with their teacher during her six week research expedition to Antarctica in which she will exchange results and answer questions via an e-mail journal, a web site with digital photographs, and a real-time discussion by video teleconference.

David Lipscomb High School (Nashville, TN)
Project Dates: August 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$3,850 for 500 students to study sound, light, temperature, pH, and the change in dissolved oxygen as temperature is changed using sensors, an interface module, data acquisition and analysis software.

Central Senior High School (Cape Girardeau, MO)
Project Dates: August 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$4,200 for 96 students in Missouri to measure and analyze differences in the E. coli contaminant levels of the water of the Mississippi in cooperation with students at a school in Minnesota, using water sampling measurement kits, pH probes, and CBL’s.

Kettering Senior High School (Detroit, MI)
Project Dates: August 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$2,000 for 150 students to study the dynamics of weather fronts, the jet stream, and atmospheric processes, applying common themes that connect math, science, and technology, employing the school weather station and
an LCD projection system.

    •   July 1998

National Science Teachers Association (Arlington, VA)
Project Dates: July 15, 1998 - October 15, 1999

$150,000 for NSTA to conduct a national competition to assist science and mathematics teachers in their utilization of laptop omputers, now and in the future, by identifying and selecting best practices for using laptop computers in teaching science and mathematics in situations where
laptop computers are prevalent.

National Science Teachers Association (Arlington, VA)
Project Dates: July 15, 1998 - July 15, 1999

$50,000 to enable 48 regional teams to participate in the Exploravision Awards program in which teams of young people project and communicate their vision of a current technology twenty years into the future.

Overton County Board of Education (Livingston, TN)
Project Dates: July 1, 1998 - May 31, 1999

$4,700 for 150 students to reconstruct a profile of a local stream to determine how variations in the temperature, velocity, and plant life affect the amount of water available for use, as part of a comprehensive study of the causes and effects of pollutants on their local watershed.

Christ the King Regional School (Haddonfield, NJ)
Project Dates: July 15, 1998 - November 6, 1998

$1,250 for 52 students to explore the physical and chemical properties of substances, the atomic world, chemical reactions, and compounds by performing small group and individual presentations and hands-on experiments with the aid of a portable science demonstration cart and everyday household materials.

Byram Hills High School (Armonk, NY)
Project Dates: July 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$4,300 for 450 students to dedicate three years to pursuing a scientific hypothesis of their choosing, working with professional scientists to make public presentations of their research to their class, school district, and at regional and state-wide symposia utilizing aa desktop projector and digital camera.

    •   May 1998

Rice High School (New York, NY)
Project Dates: June 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$5,000 for 300 high school students to explore biology, chemistry, and physics by computing a water budget, examining the formation of acid rain, and investigating the structure of the atmosphere and its effects on the transmission of electromagnetic radiation around the world, generating and analyzing data of atmospheric phenomena at a school observatory.

California State University (Hayward, CA)
Project Dates: June 15, 1998 - June 15, 1999

$4,500 for 600 students from 9 high schools to obtain hands-on experience with polymerase chain reaction activities using gene cycler thermal cyclers in conjunction with other biotechnology experiments, such as pGLO bacterial transformation.

Walters Public Schools (Walters, OK)
Project Dates: May 15, 1998 - November 15, 1999

$4,500 for 100 students to explore intracellular structures and DNA, the process of cell division (mitosis and cytokinesis), and the 4 stages of the cell cycle by making individual wet mount slides and producing fixed and stained slides of onion root tip cells during cell division with the aid of a microscope video system and interactive software.

University of Houston (Houston, TX)
Project Dates: June 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$4,300 for 15 middle and 55 high school students to use geometric principles to plot and compare paths of two hurricanes; to investigate potential and kinetic energy by constructing rollercoasters; and to explore force, acceleration, gravity, and action-reaction using catapults, kites, planes, and rockets.

Intermediate School 302 (Brooklyn, NY)
Project Dates: May 15, 1998 - May 15, 1999

$4,000 for 60 students to study circumference, radius, area, slope, incline, friction and electricity as part of the construction and operation of electric train cities, in which they will find solutions to problems that railroads face daily in real life.

Lawrence Middle School (Lawrence, NY)
Project Dates: June 1, 1998 - June 1, 1999

$3,500 for 90 students to conduct tests on soil, water, and the atmosphere of their school, and to experiement with organic farming as part of an interactive, interdisciplinary exploration of how air, water, and land interact, evolve, and change.

Eleanor Roosevelt Intermediate School 143 (NY,NY) Project Dates: May 15, 1998 - August 15, 1999

$3,300 for 100 students from two schools (one in New York, the other in Arlington) to test their neighboring river for biotic and abiotic
factors as part of a series of classroom activities and site visits, culminating in an exchange in which students will teach their peers and share results.

    •   April 1998

Fyffe High School (Fyffe, AL)
Grant Date: April 1, 1998

$4,000 for 50 eleventh grade chemistry students to use mathematical, statistical, and graphing models to express patterns and relationships determined from sets of gathered data by conducting a series of diverse chemical investigations that will employ both qualitative and quantitative studies of various elements, the major classes of chemical reactions, and basic chemical principles.

St. James School (Houston, TX)
Grant Date: April 1, 1998

$3,750 for 27 middle school students to monitor the quality of their local water supply and measure the effectiveness of wastewater treatment, testing samples using various water monitoring kits and electronic colorimeters with data logging capabilities at a wastewater treatment complex and testing laboratory.

Escuela Secundaria Federal No. 1 (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico)
Grant Date: April 1, 1998

$5,000 for 1200 middle school students to learn concepts of energy and biomass, aerobic and aerobic respiration, and fermentation by participating in a school-wide recycling project in which they will separate paper, metal, glass and organic material from trash for use in school activities such as composting.

Wakefield School (The Plains, VA)
Grant Date: April 1, 1998

$5,000 for 125 middle and high school students to participate in a comprehensive (physical, biological, geographical, and geological) environmental impact evaluation of their school's watershed. In the seventh grade, geography students will focus on the physical geology and geography of the property, studying weathering, erosion, topography, soil profiles and run-off by conducting soil studies and using CBL sensors to collect barometric data and relative humidity.

    •   March 1998

Benton Consolidated High School (Benton, IL)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$6,000 for 120 physics students to explore the Bernoulli Principle, Newton's Laws of Motion, the magnetic field of the atmosphere, geographic wind patterns and water cycles by developing and testing a flight plan on FAA-approved flight simulation software.

Wilmington Christian School (Hockessin, DE)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$5,200 for 110 biology students to learn the effect of pollutants on water quality using dissolved oxygen probes to record oxygen levels in an aquarium over a period of several days, among many activities that use experimental design and data collection to enhance critical thinking.

Escuela Preparatoria "El Chamizal" (Ciudad Juarez, Mexico)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$8,400 for 500 students to monitor the quality of the Bravo River in conjunction with students from other schools in the surrounding area; and to teach their peers about energy efficiency and solar energy by building solar ovens and preparing information booklets for a community-wide exposition.

Battle Creek Academy (Battle Creek, MI)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$9,000 for 75 physics students to increase their understanding of Newton's laws of motion, kinetic friction, rotational inertia, resonance, Ohm's Law, simple harmonics, conservation of momentum and buoyant force using motion sensors and a free fall adapter to change variables, in one case to see how mass affects acceleration and momentum.

South Jones Middle School (Ellisville, MS)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$11,500 for 1035 science students to study cell function, structure, and reproduction by investigating the various cell components and the processes of meiosis and mitosis by implementing fully interactive CD-ROM programs and videomicroscopes.

Stratford High School (Houston, TX)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$8,500 for 300 students to apply mathematics to real life situations utilizing spreadsheets and ledger systems to set up and calculate a loan repayment schedule and to investigate the effects of different interest rates and monthly payments using interactive software and a computer projector.

Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$25,000 for thousands of middle and high school students to engage in open-ended, hands-on explorations of scientific phenomena using tabletop versions of Exploratorium exhibits which are tailor-made for each classroom to reflect a solution to the difficulty each teacher has encountered using conventional tools and techniques to convey scientific principles.

New Visions for Public Schools (New York, NY)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$18,200 for eight grants that provide New York City teachers with resources to engage their students in hands-on inquiry and experimentation with real world applications (at one school, students research and analyze local weather conditions using a weather station; at another school, students investigate the construction and function of bridges by making scale drawings, and constructing their own model bridges.)

IMPACT II/The Teachers Network (New York, NY)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$8,500 for a series of collaborative projects in which 500 students from four schools will study the effect of pollution on microorganisms found in bodies of water in the path of aircraft arriving and departing from Kennedy airport.

Blacklick Valley Jr.-Sr. High School (Nanty Glo, PA)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$14,700 for 426 students in grades 7 - 12 to supplement science class experiments (on acid rain deposition, catalytic cellular reaction of glycolysis, solar radiation, human circulatory and transport systems, Newton's Laws) with hands-on activities that involve the measurement of real-life systems using digital and analog sensors connected to computers through an interface.

Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto, Ontario)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$16,000 to engage approximately 6,900 students and their teachers in advanced science and technologically-based cognitive and affective programming which features the theme "Exploration of Flight," and includes an examination of all types of flying creatures from insects to flying mammals.

Kennedy Middle School (Barstow, CA)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$10,000 for 380 students to study solar and wind energy, pH and chemicals of soil and water, vernal pools, atmospheric conditions, and the seismography of the desert through laboratory experiments, field research, and preparation of lessons for second and third grade students.

Olle Middle School (Houston, TX)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$14,600 for 950 students to locate and identify selected stars, and explain their daily and annual motion; they will also locate and analyze global weather occurrences utilizing a latitude and longitude coordinate system on a portable planetarium.

Franklin Regional Junior High (Murrysville, PA)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$12,100 for 300 ninth grade students to participate in a series of interactive, hands-on activities in the areas of astronomy, geology, meteorology using a portable planetarium that provides scaled versions of natural phenomena.

J.E.B. Stuart High School (Falls Church, VA)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$12,800 for 300 ninth grade biology students to investigate the biochemical principals for life, including the structure and function of macromolecules, the nature of enzymes, and the relationship between photosynthesis and respiration during lab activities with an interactive series of computer programs on compact disc.

Tides Center/Project del Rio (Las Cruces, NM)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$20,000 for 500 science students from 13 schools in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to monitor the water quality of the Rio Grande watershed comparing data upstream and down, as part of a collaborative, binational environmental education program operating throughout the border region.

Lindenhurst Middle School (Lindenhurst, NY)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$9,000 for 1500 seventh and eighth grade students to research and experiment with solar energy and aerodynamics by designing and constructing a full size solar electric vehicle.

Communities in Schools (Dallas, TX)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$10,000 for 50 students to develop an understanding of the hydrologic cycle, gravity and force; aeronautics, robotics, geometry, weights and measures through a series of hands-on experiments and field work with local professionals.

University of Detroit Jesuit High School (Detroit, MI)
Grant Date: March 23, 1998

$7,500 for 400 students to research plant germ cell development and differentiation as seen in the root, stem, and leaf development of some common bulbs such as the hyacinth, tulip, and daffodil, preparing slides and digitized photos at key developmental stages for a final presentation.

    •   January 1998

Wayne Community Schools
Grant Date: January 9, 1998

$4,500 for 440 students to study the fundamentals of mathematics, applied math, pre-algebra, beginning and intermediate algebra under the tutelage of a teacher and para-professional who will individualize instruction for each child using software that provides for self-pacing, and self-analysis.


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