2019-20 Grants Awarded

Grant Awards 2019-2020

Salish Coast Elementary

Sailing Aboard the Adventuress
As a part of the Maritime Discovery School, 5th graders explore the topics of renewable energy and climate change. Their studies culminate with a trip aboard the schooner Adventuress relating their knowledge on this topic through place-based and experiential learning.

Salish Coast Elementary Children’s Film Festival & STEM Night
Students showcase their thinking as researchers utilizing stop-animation film techniques. Focusing on Project Based Learning (PBL) this grant reaches the greater community through an evening of film and presentations.

YEA Music!
These five-week after-school sessions engage and stimulate students’ academics through music instruction. These sessions include tutoring, snacks and transportation. Introduction to music fluency includes choir, fiddle, ukulele and social dancing. Public performances to the community build confidence in these budding musicians.

Collaborative Writers in the Schools Program (WITS)
Students are immersed in a two-week program working closely with published authors to develop confidence in their writing and in themselves as they work on the creative and rigorous assignments delivered by WITS. Student work is published in a class anthology and selected writings are published in the annual Seattle Arts and Lectures Anthology publication.

Kindergarten Guided Reading Leveled Books
This grant provides quality instructional materials to support foundational early literacy skills.

Eureka!
Purchased biographies about the lives of scientists, engineers, and inventors inspire budding scientists while expanding their understanding of what scientists do and why science is important. Coupled with a K’nex engineering model system, students connect their readings through modeling their investigations and theories.

Eureka Too!
Discovering the importance of science through exploration and readings, students extend their learning through field work linking their biographical readings to active investigations. This grant provided for the purchase of 30 binoculars.

Hoops for Student Health
These hoops support instruction in the Physical Education classes and offer a fun option for exercise and play at recess. This grant will fund a community "Make a Hoop Take a Hoop" event in Spring.

Enriching 4th Grade Classroom Library
We know that a robust classroom library motivates students to read. This grant supports the need for a wide range of reading materials that reflect abilities and interests. Providing choices for self-selecting reading materials encourages authentic literary discussions among students.

Blue Heron Middle School

Through the Lens: Photography
This grant funded two of each - large DSLRs, Go Pros, and point and shoot cameras. Students use this equipment throughout the year in the yearbook program. Not only does this equipment support introductory photography, but also expands their understanding of digital photography, videography and publication design.

Writers in the Schools (WITS)
With an emphasis on the writing process and clear, concise writing students participate in a 10-day program WITS (Writers in the Schools). WITS provide for professional writers to share their expertise with students by modeling, sharing, and collaborating.

Maritime Discovery Program
This inclusive and engaging interdisciplinary opportunity provides every 7th grader eight days of core academic classes through maritime experiences. Long boating, boatbuilding, local naturalists, and maritime businesses inform these students as they learn about their local maritime community.

From Pigments on a Palette...
This grant gives students exposure to a real-life application of ratios with color. 6th grade students learn about light and color, while integrating science and math concepts. The collaboration of science and art deepens their understanding through a hands-on project.

Equity in Shakespeare
100 copies of “The No Fear Shakespeare” versions of Julius Caesar provide for challenged readers access to the complex text of Caesar. Shakespearean on one side and modern English on the opposing side of the text allows for the range of reading levels found in most classrooms.

ROADS challenge –Middle School STEAM classes
This growing program was assisted by a grant award of an additional robot. Competing at the NASA Roads challenge, students will be performing a variety of tasks that simulate Martian exploration - flying a drone, programming a robot, erosion testing, as well as identifying microscopic life, gases in the air, and water in the soil.

YEA Music!
These five-week after-school sessions engage and stimulate students’ academics through music instruction. These sessions include tutoring, snacks and transportation. Introduction to music fluency includes choir, fiddle, ukulele and social dancing. Public performances to the community build confidence in these budding musicians.

Port Townsend High School

Increasing Equity in College Access: Offering PSAT to All Juniors
This grant removes barriers to access and help students gain confidence in taking the SAT. Awarded to the entire Port Townsend High School’s 11th grade class, students will take the practice SAT during the school day offering invaluable insight into areas of strength as well as improvement opportunities.

Amplifying and Analyzing Student's Personal Genomes
Biology and AP Biology students harvest, amplify and copy their own DNA from cheek cells using a MiniOne Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) System purchased through this grant. Additional equipment from prior grant awards provide students the ability to analyze and compare their genotype and phenotype (PTC taster or PTC non-taster).

What the Eyes Don't See
Students participate in local field trips to learn about Port Townsend's watershed and water treatment facilities. Integrating their reading of the novel "What the Eyes Don't See" (a nonfiction book focused on a lead poisoning health crisis), students learn to critically assess the influences and pressures on communities and their failing infrastructures.

Lift your Voice Unit
Contemporary biographical readings inspire students to lift their own voices to create change. The books purchased for this unit provide the platform for the learning objective to understand how impactful messages are crafted, executed and purposed.

Humanities Library Expansion
Students in Social Studies classes are encouraged to read and engage with non-fiction texts beyond those used directly in class. This grant provides for the purchase of up-to-date titles that engage students with the larger world and world of ideas around them.

T.A.C.O. Program
Teaching Academics through Culinary Opportunities (T.A.C.O.) as a component of the PTHS Spanish program introduces to students the cultural and historical aspects of Spanish culture through food. Students will steward a maize varietal adapted to the Quimper Peninsula while practicing their Spanish communication skills.

Gears to Gizmos
The title says it all. Students in this conceptual physics class develop hands on experience as they tweak their invention to understand ratios, electrical output and power transfer. Students use gears, wheels, and laser cut chassis to study speed, velocity, and acceleration as well as energy transfer from the vehicles built.

Updating and Expanding Science Technology
This grant provides for the purchase of portable devices that attach to probes. This will allow students to take a variety of precise and accurate measurements of temperature, acidity, oxygen levels, motion, acceleration and more.

College Inspiration Day
High school students will have the opportunity to envision and realize their possible future as a university student. Students will spend a full day on a college campus, providing a better understanding of what lies ahead and how they might best plan for it.
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