Dreambox learning is an online adaptive program that is completely common core standards based. Students are able to login and interactively practice standards that adapt automatically to their needs or their acceleration. Teachers are able to assign by skills and standards or can just allow students to "play" without knowing
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Donner Trail Elementary
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Mathematics & Science
Technology
The 1st Grade STEAM grant will give students access to weekly STEAM activities, directly boosting their understanding of core mathematical and science concepts, allowing teachers to more effectively hit engineering standards, and increase Spanish oral and written production.
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Kings Beach Elementary
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Mathematics & Science
These kits will whole class to invent and build simple solar-electric machines that run on light. This is for the purchase of two classroom kits of 15 Solardrive components, with additional tools and materials. Renewable and re-usable, the SolRun kit enables students to explore and invent solar-powered machines. Hands-on Solar
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Donner Trail Elementary
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Mathematics & Science
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This larger than life way to teach young people the power of maps and the limitless depth of geography using a half court-sized map of a continent or a classroom-sized state map on which they can explore, travel around, compete, collaborate and have lots of fun. The National Geographic Giant
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Donner Trail Elementary
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History/ Social Science
Mathematics & Science
Weekly newspapers covering Social Studies, Science and current events to enhance our literacy and knowledge of given topics. The topics are all what is being taught in the Kindergarten Classrooms.
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Truckee Elementary
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History/ Social Science
Literacy
Mathematics & Science
This grant is being written for all Donner Trail Elementary students to be able to observe the live feed from the International Space Station all day, everyday using ISS-Above! The ISS-Above tracks the International Space Station and displays information screens and live video from the external cameras on the ISS.ISS-ABOVE
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Donner Trail Elementary
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Mathematics & Science
Technology
The 2nd grade team at Tahoe Lake for the 2018-21019 school year will have 3 classrooms. We have loved using the Mystery Science program along with the Stemscopes program the district is providing to enhance student learning. We have all already received a free year of Mystery Science as a
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Tahoe Lake Elementary
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Mathematics & Science
Every other year the Sierra Expeditionary Learning School (SELS) takes its second and third grade students on a tour of historic, downtown Truckee. This tour exposes the students to sites on Commercial Row, Jibboom Street and the surrounding areas, which contain rich historical resources. The purpose of this tour is
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Sierra Expeditionary Learning School
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Mathematics & Science
This grant seeks funding to purchase a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine for classroom use in biology and AP biology courses at NTHS. A PCR machine is a analytical instrument that precisely heats and cools small liquid samples to allow biological enzymes to copy DNA, generating millions of copies of
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North Tahoe High School
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Mathematics & Science
PASCO Smart carts will be used to study fundamental principles in physics such as kinematics, dynamics and energy conservation. The carts have built-in sensors that wirelessly transmit the data to the SPARKvue app on student’s Chromebook or the classroom iPad. The app will graph the data so that the physical
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Truckee High School
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Mathematics & Science