Recipients of 2008-09 Social Studies Grants by SRP

SRP approved grant proposals from nine high schools to participate in the 2008-09 Social Studies Grants by SRP program. /p>

SRP awarded grants to the following schools:

  • Gilbert Traditional Academy - Neely Elementary (Gilbert), $1,000: Children's author Conrad Storad (Don't Call Me Pig!, Lizards for Lunch, Life in the Slow Lane) will give an interactive presentation to five first grade classes (120 students). The students will then write their own stories relating to Arizona themes.
  • Basha High School (Chandler), $1,000: Funds are to be used for purchasing equipment for recording oral histories. The oral histories are transcribed and archived in the school library. These oral histories are then used as primary resources by other students throughout the Chandler School District.
  • Raymond S. Kellis High School (Peoria), $800: Grant funds will be used to purchase a video projector that would interface with over 400 existing power point lessons and activities and over 3,000 stored maps and graphs. The school currently uses a TV scan-converter, making it difficult to view Power Point and is ineffective in viewing mapping simulations.
  • Kyrene del Milenio (Tempe), $1,000: Grant funds will be used for the fifth grade students to participate in the "Our Nation" program, a hands-on, activity based program that provides students with the opportunity to understand and then develop their own businesses. Students will develop a business strategy, capitalization, product development and advertising then prepare a Web site aimed towards their business endeavor.
  • Kyrene del Cielo (Tempe), $1,000: Grants funds will be used for fifth grades students to participate in the "Our Nation" program with Kyrene del Milenio students.
  • Coronado Elementary School (Higley), $900: Funding to be utilized for "Kids Know! Kids Vote!" program for kindergarten through eighth grade students. Multi-grade social studies concepts will be used to teach students about the voting process and support the Social Studies Strands of Civics and Government.
  • Carol Rae Ranch Elementary School (Gilbert), $900: Funding will be used to purchase interactive materials and books (literature) for second grade students. Programming will include geography and mapping skills while also reading literature of the colonization and the American Revolution to the westward expansion, and economics.
  • Patterson Elementary School (Gilbert), $500: Funds will be used to purchase a variety of fiction and nonfiction books for 3rd grade classes. These books will be used a supplementary materials as each unit of history is introduced. Students will then have a writing assignment on each topic.
  • Madison #1 (Phoenix), $1,000: Funds will be used for the seventh grade preparation and presentation at the Annual Civil War night hosted by Madison #1. Students are immersed in the Civil War and spend time studying the battles and outcomes. The topics that students re-enact for the event include military encampments, live presentations and exhibits.
  • Superstition Springs Elementary School (Gilbert), $860: Funding will utilized by second grade teachers to purchase the series of books If You.... Topics covered include the Civil War, George Washington, Martin Luther King, Colonial Times, American Revolution, Traveling West and the Constitution.
  • Tempe High School (Tempe), $1,000: AP history class is studying period music - the music connects the students with the topics they are studying.
  • Mesquite Elementary School (Gilbert), $720: The second grade class will be utilizing maps for geography. The key events will be Colonization and the American Revolution, Civics and Government, the Westward Movement, Early Asia and Economics.
  • Greenway Middle School (Paradise Valley), $1,000: Twice Exceptional students in the eighth grade will participate in the Museum Youth Curator Experience at the Arizona Historical Society. This program lasts the entire academic year. Students will research, design, fabricate and install exhibits in the Museum.
  • West Wing School (Peoria), $1,000: Eighth grade students will conduct interviews the residents of Royal Oaks Lifecare Community. The students will learn about interview techniques and skills, compose a historical abstract and summary then they will analyze the relationship between historical evidence and memory of an event.
  • Page Middle School (Page), $1,000: Funds will used to pilot an environmental traveling trunk about the carbon footprint on the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau.
  • Deer Valley Middle School (Deer Valley), $1,000: Funds will be used to pilot a traveling trunk entitled "Explorers of the Grand Canyon." Through artifacts, primary sources, photos and mass publications students will learn about the "voices of the canyon" from the American Indians, Spanish Explorers, miners, Santa Fe railroad executives and the Harvey girls.
  • Tempe High School (Tempe), $1,000: Funds will be used to develop freshman AP curriculum for World History Students. Tempe High School is in the process of being certified as the first IB school in Tempe. The instructor is attending a workshop to plan this curriculum and will have students organize their work using CISIP - an embedded structured oral and written discourse.

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