Sentences with phrase «science classroom fund»

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With the expected cuts to the Department of Education's budget, Wilson said targeted funding, especially for teacher training, is crucial to make sure computer science takes root in the nation's classrooms.

Whether it is helping a teacher to troubleshoot a kit in the classroom, helping a fellow scientist to find an age - appropriate science activity to do with an eighth - grade classroom, or telling funders why our programs are worth funding, writing and communication skills are key to our work.

With current national and state science education standards emphasizing hands - on and applied science learning, teachers need, more than ever before, materials they can use with students to foster and support active learning, but finding funding to pay for supplemental classroom science materials can be difficult.

To date, 20 classrooms in 20 schools have benefited from Science Buddies kits funded by grants from the VWR Foundation, the Carson Foundation, Boston Scientific, Southern California Edison, and the Charitable Foundation.

In 2015, the council funded 15 new classrooms at Sandringham School, which included three large science laboratories, a computer science room, preparation rooms and seminar rooms to accommodate 30 new pupils per year.

The latest data collected by the National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education (a project funded by the National Science Foundation) indicates that just 16 minutes a day in the typical K 3 classroom is dedicated to social studies and just 19 minutes to sScience and Mathematics Education (a project funded by the National Science Foundation) indicates that just 16 minutes a day in the typical K 3 classroom is dedicated to social studies and just 19 minutes to sScience Foundation) indicates that just 16 minutes a day in the typical K 3 classroom is dedicated to social studies and just 19 minutes to sciencescience.

It's when you start seeing how science in the classroom is used, within the community and within industry, that they actually begin to see what's possible and I think there really does need to be continued governmental support and funding to support teachers in being able to access and utilise some of those resources in order to redevelop their curriculum.

She is working on a project funded by the Institute of Education Science, U.S. Department of Education, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, using multiple approaches such as using eye - tracking technology to investigate growth of silent reading, video - taping and coding classroom instruction, and coding thousands of children's oral language and writing samples.

«We've been blessed with numerous grants that have brought us state - of - the - art technology for our math and science classrooms,» Green said, «but we're in need of more technology tools for language arts and social studies, where external funding isn't always easy to acquire.»

Examples of the schools students can «choose» include: a Milwaukee school that accepted $ 2.3 million of taxpayer funded vouchers but abruptly closed in the middle of the school year; a school in Florida where classes were held in public parks once the school was declared unfit by the fire marshall; or hundreds of schools that teach creationism in science classrooms.

I secured funds to reduce overcrowding and improve the quality of education by upgrading outdated classrooms and science labs, repairing deteriorating schools to improve student safety, and creating new, smaller neighborhood schools so students are better prepared for college and to get the job skills they need to work in a 21st Century economy.

Two EEF - funded projects that encourage higher order thinking and develop better classroom talk have shown positive results on science outcomes and are listed as EEF Promising Projects:

MPA received funding to provide teachers with materials and supply budgets to cover «the little things» — markers, paper, binder clips, as well as books, equipment for science experiments, and journals — in order to design quality daily lessons for students, while valuing teachers as professionals by providing needed classroom supplies and materials.

With generous funding from the Greater Good Science Center and working in collaboration with the New Teacher Center, Owen has been creating articles to help educators implement gratitude successfully in the classroom.

Then they could expound on their vision for science policy in the US, including methods for improving science education in the classroom and to the general public (such as by promising to reallocate funding to public broadcasting) as well as outlining a vision for space exploration / evelopment, medical research (e.g. vaccine research), etc..

«a well - funded effort has skillfully rebranded that ideology as «creation science» and pushed it into classrooms across the country.