I would like to purchase 16 boxes (2 per group) to use for storage of dry-erase markers and small erasers that my students can use with their whiteboards. I would also like to purchase the items to fill the boxes with. These include dry erase markers and erasers.

I have witnessed the TouchMath program make math education accessible to the most challenged students. I have seen TouchMath empower students who did not believe in themselves, did not think they could count, and did not think they had the power within themselves to be successful at math. To say

Over the last nine years, SWEP has developed and hosted STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art & math) styled Science Festival and Family Science Nights at many of Tahoe Truckee Unified School District’s elementary and middle school sites. The Science Festival and Family Science Nights have become a highlighted event for

Kiwi Co. Crates are hands-on kits that arrive monthly with a focus on science, art, and engineering for children ages 5-8. These crates come with all the necessary materials needed to give students a project based experience that fosters creativity and collaboration in order to build a science and art

Students in third grade have a difficult time conceptualizing fractions when comparing them and when creating equivalent fractions. We have circular fraction tiles but when students need to make the relationship from physically moving the fractions to beginning to draw them (as necessary in the progression of understanding) students struggle

Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, has a Citizen Science project to research the correlation of snow flake shapes and weather conditions. Tahoe Lake Elementary was one of the schools selected to be part of their sponsored project this past year. As such we were able to borrow a number

Part of what Measure AA sponsors are the elementary science labs. Glenshire Elementary's Science Lab benefits from having a class set of The Laws Guide to the Sierra Nevada. Tahoe Lake Elementary would also benefit from a set of these, as I work at both elementary schools, and have used

Weekly newspapers covering Social Studies, Science and current events to enhance our literacy and knowledge of given topics. The topics all correlate to what is being taught in kindergarten.

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

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.