2004-2005 MINI-GRANT WINNERS

Cece Berger, Kevin Roemer – Scarsdale Middle School ($952.93)
Title: Moving into the Future: Powered Up PE
Purpose: To integrate the use of Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) into the Mid-dle School teacher preparation and physical education program.

Laura Chess, Melissa Demarest, Jennifer D’Amico, Sean Ford, Julie Co-burn, Lillie Blecker – Greenville School ($1000)
Title: K Through Life: Out of Hand or Out of Control Part 2-Facilitating Mature Pencil Grasps
Purpose: To investigate the effects of direct intervention on biomechanical pencil grasps in young students.

Kathy Connon, Andy Verboys – Scarsdale Middle School ($1000)
Title: DatelineSMS: Next Generation of Digital News Shows for Students
Purpose: To provide the Scarsdale Middle School television news student report-ers with mini-tape recorders to facilitate interviewing and story writing.

Jessica D’Antona, Judy Katz, Betsy Molisani, Kathleen Stevenson – Seely Place School ($300)
Title: Using Folktales to Enhance Learning Throughout the Curriculum
Purpose: To facilitate the teaching of folktales from around the world with the crea-tion of student-made puppets.

Seth Evans, Steve Mounkhall, Chris Renino, Greg Leong – Scarsdale High School ($1000)
Title: Creating a Teaching DVD
Purpose: To produce a DVD of excerpts from movies with curriculum application that includes an explanatory menu and a companion guide for classroom use.

Judy Famellette – Science Helping Teacher, Scarsdale Schools ($1000)
Title: Take a Closer Look
Purpose: To use iMovie technology in creating a DVD to supplement the fourth grade Pond Life unit and help new teachers become familiar with the life of the pond.

Jonathan Hansonbrook – Edgemont Junior/Senior High School ($350)
Title: Reading Eutropius: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Latin and Ro-man History
Purpose: To enhance the teaching of Level II and III Latin by applying the Pharr method of translation to the works of the Roman historian, Eutropius.

Ken Holvig - Scarsdale Middle School ($1000)
Title: Digital Storybooks to Go
Purpose: To introduce teachers to the capabilities of iPhoto and Shutterfly for organ-izing and completing a photo book project.

Pat McCallion – Greenville School ($840)
Title: Reading Strategies that Work
Purpose: To enrich fourth grade reading instruction by incorporating comprehensive skills that enhance understanding through the use of picture books and short texts.

Maggie McCormick, Rob Calabro, Louise Kuklis – Edgemont High School ($1000)
Title: The Greening of Edgemont
Purpose: To increase student awareness of the problems of global warming, to as-sess the school community’s output of CO2 emissions, and to make a for-mal recommendation to the Edgemont Board of Education to reduce CO2 emissions and adopt more environmentally friendly practices.

George Olivier, Larry Brown – Scarsdale High School ($1000)
Title: Dilemmas and Ethical Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Ap-proach
Purpose: To create an interdisciplinary senior course linking literature, language arts, film media, and other areas through the development of ethical dilemmas requiring decision-making.

Constance Shelengian - Scarsdale Middle School, Lisa Forte – Edgewood School ($1000)
Title: Integrating Technology into the Choral Music Classroom
Purpose: To integrate technology into the repertoire of choral music education and to broaden the resources available for choral musicians by finding alterna-tive ways to engage, challenge, and motivate the learner.

Paul Tomizawa – Elementary Computers, William Yang – Fox Meadow School ($1000)
Title: An Ear for Imagination
Purpose: To promote listening skills and aural literacy and to enhance the ability of students to communicate stories.

Steven Weiss - Scarsdale Middle School ($750)
Title: Integrating Mathcounts into the Everyday Math Curriculum
Purpose: To enhance the middle school math curriculum by incorporating stimulating and challenging problems from the Mathcounts program into daily class-room practice