Yay Ukulele!
Leslie Kurzweil, Cayuga Heights Elementary School
Students will learn basic chords, strumming patterns, and simple songs on the ukulele.
Water Justice
Stephen Anderson, Beverly J Martin Elementary School
Our district continues to import water jugs every week into schools. My students will test the water coming from the pipes and in local streams to determine levels of lead in the water and make a recommendation to the board of education as to the continued use of water jugs in our buildings.
Kindness Rocks at IHS
Marie Sadusky Ithaca High School
The Yoga & Self Care for Every Body (Physical Education) students will design rocks with kind messages and either hide their rocks around campus or place their rocks in the IHS rock garden to help spread kindness around Ithaca High School to both students and staff.
Missing COVID Rockets!
Spencer Hill Cayuga Heights Elementary School
Our current 4th & 5th graders missed Rocket building and launching at CHES due to COVID and we want to get them caught up, one year at a time.
Science Olympiad Registration Fees
Matthew Fellman Ithaca High School
Our Registration Fees for competitions are increasing every year as our team grows and succeeds.
The Girl Who Swallowed A Cactus- Syracuse Stage ( Virtual)
Maureen Gilroy Fall Creek Elementary School
A virtual performance by the Syracuse Stage draws on elements of traditional storytelling and explores themes of courage, friendship, and environmental preservation.
Contemplative mural space Michelle Harty Fall Creek Elementary School We are creating a quiet contemplative space to install a mural created by incarcerated youth which commemorates black men and women murdered by police.
A taste of Spain
Claudia Miettunen Ithaca High School
Walking field trip to La Bodega in Dewitt Mall
Kinder Yogis
Jessica Custer-Bindel Beverly J Martin Elementary School
Kinder Yogis is a mindful based yoga program that aligns with social emotional learning.
Edison Robots for our Elementary Engineers
Megan Hulburt Northeast Elementary School
"Our project will give our elementary school students the ability to engineer solutions like real robotics engineers with Edison robots that are simple enough for students to work with independently but versatile enough that our students will be able to really engineer robots with lego attachments and coding to “help humans” just like career robotics engineers!"
Independent Music Production.
Harry Nichols. Dewitt Middle School
Using online tools to foster student creativity through music production
I currently run an indie music production club at school. Students in the club write and record original music using the technology provided by the district, and materials that I have supplied. The club will use this grant money to purchase Melodyne, an application to help produce their music, turning rough demos into professional-sounding products.
3d Printer for our Elementary Innovations.
Megan Hulburt. Northeast Elementary School
Northeast’s 4th and 5th-grade students are learning to engineer 3-dimensional creations with Tinker Cad. With our own 3D printers, our students will be able to bring their designs from a model on a screen to a creation they can hold in their hands!
Hoophouse growing facilitation for IHS
Robert Tuori. Ithaca High School
I would like to purchase a weed wacker to simplify clean-up of the hoop house in the spring before planting; I would also like to purchase a black tarp to cover our cover crops after they are weed whacked.
SEL Onstage at Northeast
Brian Goodman. Northeast Elementary School
Students will engage with our social-emotional curriculum through theatre arts.
I See You, You See Me: Diverse Books for the Fall Creek "Share-a-Book"
Shelf Sarah Smith. Fall Creek Elementary School
Imagine a bookshelf at Fall Creek school from which all children can take books home. And imagine that this shelf is always full of a beautifully diverse collection of books in which all children see themselves and see others. The FC Pre-K class is starting a giveaway bookshelf for the whole school, and we need books with BIPOC characters to fill the shelf.
Breakout EDU
Michelle Lee. Ithaca High School
Escape-room like boxes that are content-driven for use in small groups - each Breakout EDU game requires collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and communication.
Field and Contemporary Small Group Activities
Justin Carr. Ithaca High School
This PE elective aims to increase student engagement by offering traditional back yard style games that promote movement, challenge, and teamwork.
Diverse Needs, Flexible Environment
Michelle Szymczak. Northeast Elementary School
Students' diverse academic, social, cultural, neurological, and sensory needs dictate that a classroom environment should have flexibility in seating and a diverse array of tools to help all students be successful.
Loom Knitting with Kids
Kelda McGurk. Cayuga Heights Elementary School
Teaching students to use knitting looms to make hats as an activity to build self-regulation in the classroom and fine-motor skills and confidence.
Vacuum Pump
Andrew Lesser. Ithaca High School
A vacuum pump is an amazing tool to make ideas like pressure/volume relationships and the effect of pressure on a substance's boiling point real for students.
Anansi Does The Impossible- A Fifth Grade Play
Maureen Gilroy. Fall Creek Elementary School
Chris Bell and I will work with 5th graders at Fall Creek School to craft a script, design a set, and perform based on the book Anansi Does the Impossible an Ashanti Tale by Verna Aardema.
Solar Power!
Perry Gorgen. South Hill Elementary School
Solar power engineers will visit our classrooms, explain their work and the science behind it, and provide a hands-on experience building a solar-powered fan for the class.
