Thirty teachers from fifteen schools have been awarded STEM Mini-Grants to develop new curriculum for projects that will engage students in hands-on projects during the 2011-12 school year.
Click on the schools below to see a description of their Mini-Grant project.
Al-Amal School: Creating a Schoolyard Wildlife and Pond Habitat with Weather Station.
Central MN Christian School: Foss Hands-On Science and Night of Science Community Event.
Community Christian Middle School: Keeping Our Pond Water Quality Investigation.
Cotter Jr. High School: Modeling Renewable Energy Sources.
Gethsemane Lutheran School: Bridging the St. Croix: The Stillwater Bridge Project.
Hillcrest Lutheran Academy: Modeling Physics.
Maranatha Christian Academy: Rocketry: Blast-Off to Success.
Mayer Lutheran High School: Simple Machines!? Not Really!
Minnehaha Academy: STEM Human Anatomy and Physiology.
St. Croix Lutheran High School: Indoor Aquatic Ecosystem.
St Francis-St. James United School: From Greenhouses to Growing Green Plants.
St. Mark’s School: Growing STEMS of Creativity.
St. Pascal Baylon School: T.E.A.M. (Together Exploring About Math).
St. Paul Preparatory School: Robot Design: From Concept to Construction.
Academy of Holy Angels: Make the Connection.
Benilde-St. Margaret’s: Mobile Applied Learning Project.
CREATING A SCHOOLYARD WILDLIFE AND POND HABITAT WITH WEATHER STATION – Al-Amal School
We will create a schoolyard habitat and learning area for our students to learn about wildlife, water and soil quality, plants, aquatic life, and weather.