The District 112 Foundation is pleased to announce that we’ve funded 8 grant requests for a total of $15,000. We received over 30 worthy submissions for thoughtful, innovative projects to take student learning to the next level in Eastern Carver County Schools! These 8 grants are spread out among 2 of the high schools, all of the middle schools, and 2 elementary schools.
The District 112 Foundation is excited to support these grants: 1. Chanhassen Sensory Room (Chanhassen High School) and 2. The Reset Room (Chaska High School) These grants support the creation of rooms where staff could encourage students to go for a quick reset when they are dealing with anxiety, high stress, or high emotions. The rooms will give students the opportunity to regain composure and assist them in self-regulating behavior in an appropriate space. 3. Extending Makerspace: Circulating Makerspace Kits (Chaska Middle School East) This grant provides for expansion on the weekly offering of Makerspace sessions during WIN time. By creating mini Makerspace kits that can be checked out by staff or learners, CMSE will expand the Makerspace Learning Center program into classrooms and exponentially increase learners’ opportunities to enrich and extend their learning. 4. Next Generation of Music Education (Chaska Middle School West) This grant enables the music department to go beyond the traditional scope of teaching band, choir, and orchestra. Students will have the opportunity to study other genres of music like rock, hip hop, and pop. Students will learn instruments like drum set, guitar, and piano. Students will use technology to create music like it sounds today. 5. Harmony Bridge: Bridging Generations through Music (Pioneer Ridge Middle School) This grant supports bringing the Harmony Bridge program to the music department. Harmony Bridge is a multi-faceted program which connects elementary through high school students to elderly people through musical performances and fellowship. It would be a sustained program intertwined with the schools’ curriculum and students’ service to the community. 6. Gizmos and Gadgets: Coding through Physics (Carver Elementary School) This grant funds Little Bits Code Kits to be used as another tool to build student skills in coding, block programming, electricity, and physics. With Little Bits Code Kit students are able to code using snap together circuits, lights, and sensors to allow students to code and build their own inventions while learning the code behind the functions of the kit. 7. Diverse Resources for Diverse Learners (Bluff Creek Elementary School) This grant offers the 3rd/4th/5th grade team, who work together in a PBL (Project Based Learning) and IBL (Inquiry Based Learning) model additional authentic materials and books for all science and social studies learning target areas. 8. Growing Curiosity in the Winter Garden (Bluff Creek Elementary School) This grant supports the BCE school garden committee in turning their garden into a cold weather growing space. Students will have access to the garden and can see things in various stages of growth for a longer period during the year. Students will be able to use the garden for STEAM and service projects, to conduct growing experiments, and to spend more time outside during colder months while engaged in hands on learning. |
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