This grant seeks funding to purchase a shaking incubator for classroom use in biology and AP biology courses at NTHS. This instrument allows the growth of live bacterial cultures for classroom experiments. This incubator is the last foundational piece of a modern molecular biology laboratory that the NTHS biology lab

The purpose of this grant is to continue to implement the previously funded interactive aquatic tanks that have been set up in our 4th grade classroom. The aquatic tanks in our classroom require upkeep and maintenance to support. This includes tank maintenance (filters, filter components, heaters, gravel, rock, lights, plants

Each week our third grade students have free choice time where students can create, imagine, and build. We’d like to increase our high-quality toys to rotate through our classrooms. Open-ended and engineering play is beneficial for all of our students and gives opportunities to explore and improve fine motor skills

Our school began a “rolling start” aka "soft start" schedule this school year, which means students arrive between 8:50-9:05 every day. The school day technically starts at 8:50, but we do not start our morning meeting and direct instruction until after the school wide breathing, which is usually about 9:10

This grant request seeks funding to purchase snowshoes for Transitional Kindergarten (TK) through 5th-grade students at Glenshire Elementary School, enabling weekly winter Science Enrichment activities. This initiative directly supports the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District's (TTUSD) Outdoor Education/Environmental Literacy strategic plan, fostering a deeper connection with nature and promoting environmental

FOSS (Full Option Science System) kits are recognized for their hands-on, inquiry-based approach to science education. For 2nd grade, these kits are designed to engage students in active exploration and discovery. Here's a general overview: Key Features of FOSS Kits: Hands-on Investigations: FOSS emphasizes direct experience with materials and phenomena

Truckee Elementary currently has a dilapidated, large school garden that was constructed 20 years ago but has not received any improvements since then. The garden currently features a broken irrigation system, 12 rotting garden beds, uneven grown with unsafe paving stones, and outdoor classroom bench seating that needs to be

The Math Department at North Tahoe High School requests a grant to purchase TI-84 CE Plus Graphing Calculators

This grant is asking for a full set of Marcy Cook time, money, application and world problem packets. They are interactive, hands-on activities where students use the visual information provided to manipulate number values to make true equations. They progress from 1st through 8th grade level difficulty.

Weekly newspapers covering Social Studies, Science and current events to enhance our ELD program. The topics all correlate with what is being taught in transitional kindergarten.