Hughes Grant Projects
			1) Salt Water Aquarium This project at Cascade Elementary in Elyria will involve all grade levels (K-6) in activities based on hands-on experiences with setting up, maintaining, and studying a salt-water aquarium. Teachers Maria C. Penwell and Jennifer Baughman would like college students to help with both research and teaching. 2) Photograms This project at Meister Road Elementary in Lorain will work primarily with first graders to develop a rigorous first grade curriculum around experimentation with photograms. The teacher Bonnie Schubert will focus on the interdisciplinary nature of science. Her work will include career exploration, community awareness, art design and techniques, and the writing process while focusing on the scientific study of photography. 3) The Earth and Solar System This project at Meister Road Elementary in Lorain will work with special education students in grades K-6 on units about weather, seasons, the earth's rotation, and the earth's place in the solar system. The teacher Christine Lucey will focus on hands-on activities, especially the creation of models. 4) Outdoor / Environmental Education This project at Meister Road Elementary in Lorain will work primarily with fourth graders on units about leaves and trees, birds and their habitats, and insects. The teacher Willy Arriaga focuses on hands-on experiences that help students learn scientific principals and develop respect for their environment. 5) A Cascade Habitat...and More This project at Cascade Elementary in Elyria is in its second year and works with first and second graders to study the natural environment surrounding the school. Teachers Linda Sweda and Pat Sudy-Solomon will integrate arts into this environmentally based curriculum. 6) Science Museum This project at Eastwood Elementary in Oberlin will work with first and second graders in a multi-age classroom to explore scientific careers, color and light, pollution, energy, and conservation. Children will also be developing web sites. Teachers Sharon Blecher and Kathy Jaffee will guide students in the creation of an in-class science museum to display the students' efforts. 7) Inventions in the 1800s and Today This project at Prospect School in Oberlin will work with third graders to study the history of machines, simple machines, the uses of machines, inventions and inventors, and careers for inventors. Teachers Jean Ebosh, Jan DeMarinis, and Christine Marquis will lead this hands-on study of machines that will culminate in an Invention Convention, where students will display their own inventions. 8) Applying Scientific Inquiry through Plant and Animal Labs This project at Eastwood School in Oberlin will work with first and second graders to study plants and seeds, animals, states of matter, weather, magnetism and electricity, and environment and conservation. Teachers Rachael Koch and Gail Burton will infuse this curriculum with many hands-on experiences in their shared plant and animal labs. 9) Earth Science - Weather This project at Westwood Elementary in Wellington will work with third graders who are studying the characteristics of weather, the forecasting of weather, and the relation of weather to humans. The teacher Shirley Johnson will focus on using scientific instruments, designing and building forecasting instruments, and exploring the validity of old wives tales that deal with weather predictions. 10) Community Garden This project at Eastwood Elementary in Oberlin will work with first and second graders in a multi-age classroom that helps care for a community garden. The teacher Sarah Lee will use this community garden and the hands-on experiences it offers to study seasons of the garden, parts of the garden, cultural aspects of gardening, wildflower gardens, community, and the arts. 11) Inventions and Inventors and Our Changing Earth This project at Prospect School will work with third and fourth graders in a multi-age classroom who will participate in an inquiry-based science program. Teachers Gail Wood and Barbara Enos will lead students in a study of simple machines, magnetism, and electricity during their inventions and inventors unit and the forces that change the earth's surface in their unit Our Changing Earth.