Reaction based training is a concept that is hugely important to athletes at all levels. The blaze pod system can be used as a sport specific training tool or simply a fun way to get varied cardio based training. The variability of the exercises are endless and the creativity it allows students is a great way to get kids competitive and involved in their training. The state of the art Blaze Pod system will continue to advance our Basic PE programs in our station work as well as serve as sport specific movements for our highest level athletes.
Orton-Gillingham Explicit Phonics Instruction and Remedial Reading Instruction
Orton-Gillingham is an explicit reading and phonics instructional approach that is structured for struggling readers. The approach is combined with multi-sensory teaching strategies paired with systematic, sequential lessons focused on phonics. These lessons are geared towards not only struggling readers but our students with disabilities and students with dyslexia as well. The Orton-Gillingham approach breaks down reading and spelling into smaller skills involving letters and sounds to then build these skills overtime while using sight, touch, hearing, and movement to build on these connections.
PLTW Biomedical Innovation (Capstone)
PLTW Biomedical Innovation is the final course of the Biomedical Science Series. This is considered a Capstone course where students take all of their learning from their previous three courses (Introduction to Biomedical Science, Human Body and Medical Interventions) and apply their knowledge in a number of real-life problems. The course centers around 8 problems that include these topics: Design of an Effective Emergency Room, Exploring Human Physiology, Design of a Medical Innovation, Investigating Environmental Health, Combating a Public Health Issue, Molecular Biology in Action, Forensic Autopsy, and an Independent Project. If ever there was a course that connects to the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic, this is it! We are asking for the supplies to get the course off the ground.
Working on our Lifetime Fitness
The Young Adult Program is built for community involvement and life skill growth. Our students thrive on exercise and have shown that they need to move their bodies in order to focus in the classroom and on the job site. Our project is asking for exercise equipment that we can use with our students DAILY so that they can learn how to exercise their bodies and learn more about personal health. Our young adults would benefit from learning different exercises and routines that they can use in their everyday lives!
Adulting Through Life Skills
The Young Adult Program is built for community involvement and life skill growth. Our students need an alternative for daily Community Based Instruction (CBI) during distance learning, and for those that have or will return to the classroom. Our project is asking for activities that mimic CBI to help students work on their skills and then applying them to the community when ready. Our young adults would benefit from using these life skills activities by applying them to their everyday lives!
Media Whiteboard=Endless Innovative Experiences
I am requesting funding for a large magnetic white board and additional manipulatives for the media center at Harvest. The board will be the home to many experiences in the media center for all of the learners, including makerspace activities, supporting literacy skills and enhancing our ability to engage in all of the four c’s that we focus on throughout the media curriculum. Through the sharing of ideas, collaboration while in the process of completing a task, and critically thinking about the most innovative ways to work through a problem, the learners at Harvest will be allowed to grow and develop in many ways.
Engaging All Communicators
The goal of this project is to increase staff and peers to feel comfortable communicating and engaging with a student who utilizes an Augmentative Assistive Communication (AAC) device.
a.) Grant funds will be used to purchase 3 IPads and an iPod. Proloquo2Go will be placed on the devices. The iPod will also have music on it so that students can practice commenting about music and youtube videos.
b)Monthly mini-presentations (10-15 minutes) will be held in 6th-grade homerooms/7th/8th-grade science/social studies room with AAC users to provide staff/students strategies/visuals/activities to engage. The IPads will be used to provide general education students to practice using the communication devices prior to engaging with the AAC students so that communication interactions will be more natural and engaging. Afterschool, monthly mini-presentation (10-15 minutes)will also be held for interested staff. Mini-presentations will contain information about strategies/activities including modeling, aided language stimulation, extension/expansion, utilizing visual supports, and recasts which are evidence-based strategies that facilitate learning for AAC learners.
The Impressionable Brain of the Developing Child
The Brain Architecture activity will be used as an introductory lesson to engage students in the intellectual development of children. This simulation experience was created by Harvard University Center on the Developing Child to cultivate a hands on, visually engaging lesson for students to understand how early experiences are built into our brains and bodies. This activity teaches students the science of early brain development and the importance of a positive, safe environment for children to develop to their fullest potential.
Making the Carbon Cycle Visible
I am requesting the funds to obtain 7 carbon dioxide sensors for the purpose of hands-on, NGSS-based labs. These will allow students to “watch” the carbon cycle in action in both cellular respiration and photosynthesis—two of the most complicated things that we discuss in Biology A. This also links directly to the idea of global warming, and allows students to investigate human impact, while practicing using graphs and numerical data… and it is engaging!
Community Based Experiences
The Young Adult Program focuses on providing students with these opportunities to fulfill a healthy and independent lifestyle in the community upon graduation at 26 years of age.. Instruction is focused on a more functional approach to provide students with the skills necessary to build their level of independence to the greatest extent possible. Students are given real life experiences that they can apply in their daily lives outside of the classroom walls. With the help of this grant, students will be given new experiences in their community that do not put the financial burden on parents.
