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2004
RT NEWS - February 10, 2005
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In
this issue:
- RT
Program News
-
Deadlines
-
Resources
-
Opportunities
++++RT
PROGRAM NEWS++++
- I've
heard from a few RTs who had trouble hooking up via email
(school
servers going down, etc.) with their team mates to work on their
cookbook
labs. If this happened to you, but you have ideas that you want
to add
about your cookbook lab, go to "View Posters" in Activity 19 and
find
your team's poster. Scroll to the bottom and click on "Respond" to
add
your suggestions.
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There are several parts to Assignment #5:
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Activity 18: Revise a "Cookbook" Lab (team work)
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Activity 19: Share Your Ideas - cookbook lab revision suggestions
(team
work) & poster session (comment on other team posters
individually)
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Activity 20: Integration of Inquiry, Equity and the Internet: Read
Up! -
reading/discussion (individual - three comments)
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Activity 21: Integration of Inquiry, Equity and the Internet:
Reflect!
- reflection note (individual)
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Invitations to the IUPS RT/Host luncheon on Monday, April 4 will be
going
out soon. You (and your guests (if your spouse/family are coming
to San
Diego with you) are invited as well as your Research Host. If
there
are other researchers (post-docs, grad students) with whom you
worked
closely and you would like to invite, please let Kathleen know
via
email (kkelly@the-aps.org) as soon as possible (Remember, do not
reply
to this email...cut-and-paste Kathleen's address into a new
message).
- Why
wait? Get those travel plans and Mini-Grant Reports in early!
++++DEADLINES++++
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Today: WISE Assignment #5 due - all of it, not just the team work
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February 28: Submit IUPS travel plans to Brooke
(bbruthers@the-aps.org)
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March 1: Mini-Grant Reports due
(http://www.the-aps.org/education/2004rts/mini-grant.htm)
++++RESOURCES++++
- How
does your garden grow? Now's the time to check out the Teacher's
Section
of KidsGardening http://www.kidsgardening.com/teachers2.asp .
They
list many gardening grants and donations available to schools,
several
with March 1 deadlines:
* The
National Gardening Association will award 100 Youth Garden Grants
to
schools, organizations, community centers, clubs, and
intergenerational
programs throughout the U.S. Each grant consists of a
$500
gift card from The Home Depot toward the purchase of supplies,
tools,
and plants, as well as educational publications from NGA.
Deadline:
March 1
*
National Gardening Association, with support from the Mailorder
Gardening
Association, awards 200 premium Dutch flower bulbs for fall
planting
to 500 schools across the continental United States. Deadline
April
1
*
Remember Me Rose School Awards will help 20 schools establish rose
gardens
to commemorate the events of September 11th, 2001. Each garden
must also
be catalyst for education in conflict resolution and mediation
skills,
preparing students to seek and achieve fair and peaceful
solutions.
Deadline:
March 1
* Wild
Seed Fund Grant The National Wildlife Foundation offers $250
mini-grants
to help young stewards get their habitats growing. There's a
link
to their info sheet on fundraising for building a schoolyard
habitat
(PDF)
http://www.nwf.org/schoolyardhabitats/pdfs/syh_fundraising_infosheet.pdf
.
KidsGardening
also has a great Resources page
(http://www.kidsgardening.com/resources/resource.asp
) where you can
search
by region for free materials, grants, technical assistance, etc.
++++OPPORTUNITIES++++
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CDW-G and Discovery are giving away three wireless computer labs plus
30
additional technology prizes. On-site setup and training from CDW-G
and
Discovery Education are provided to all three "Win a Wireless Lab"
sweepstakes
winners. K-12 teachers, administrators, and school and
district
technology specialists are eligible to apply. The application
is
online and simple to fill out. The rules indicate that you can submit
more
than one application into the sweepstakes. Deadline: May 1, 2005.
http://school.discovery.com/cdwg/
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Check out the Jordan Fundamentals grant
http://www.nike.com/nikebiz/nikebiz.jhtml?page=26&item=jordan
. Four
hundred
grants of $2500 will be awarded to teachers in underprivileged
schools
who strive beyond challenges and limited resources to achieve
excellence
through instructional creativity, innovative teaching and
high
learning expectation for students. New this year, teachers of
Grades
1-6 are eligible to apply in addition to Grades 6-12. Deadline is
June
15th.
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Best
regards,
Kathleen
_____________________________
Kathleen
H. Kelly
K-12
Programs Coordinator
American
Physiological Society
9650
Rockville Pike
Bethesda,
MD 20814-3991
T: 301
634 7231 F: 301 634 7098
E:
kkelly@the-aps.org
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