educator micro grants / sponsored project grants

Both innovation and practicality are evident in the thousands of micro grant applications the EPAK Board has reviewed since 1993. The following activities, many with links to letters from students and teachers, illustrate the range and diversity of how EPAK micro grant monies are used.

• Microscopes to study microscopic life
• Scholastic books for "silent reading" in the classroom
• Leap Pad learning systems reinforce reading and writing activities
• Library books for students to check out and take home
• Young Interpreters field trip to the Hall of Justice and Stanford Hospital
• Field trip to the Exploratorium in San Francisco
• Inference games and phonics phones
• Math manipulatives for kindergarteners
• Books for speech, language and special needs students
• Math and science puzzles, reading and spelling games make learning fun!
• Samuel shares his favorite books
• An "Artistic" Thank You Note from Estefania Cervantes
• Classroom dictionaries
• Interactive white boards
• Science Experiment Supplies
• Ano Nuevo State Reserve Field Trip
• ocean commotion assembly by the National Center for Science Education
• hydroponic green houses to build a 3-D model of a Mars habitat
• lab materials for genetic study of mayflies
• display boards for science fair projects
• math and science puzzles and games
• field trip to Hidden Villa
• stamps, envelopes and transportation for pen pal program with Stanford students; after four letters, students meet their pals for a tour of campus
• biography books to for a writing project
• trip to the Baylands led by Environmental Volunteers, with preparatory classroom presentation
• listening centers with storybooks on tapes
• DNA Fingerprinting Electrophoresis kits for a middle school science lab
• math software and flash cards; language, handwriting and spelling workbooks
• calculators for high school physics and geometry classes
  
  

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