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New Haven Elementary School
teacher Norma Griffin shows her students a carcass
that was found hanging in a tree by the trail
at SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek Field Station
April 20. |
The Entergy Charitable Foundation has recently granted
a third year of funding, $25,000 per year, to SUNY Oswego
to support the Project SMART—Science and Math
Applied Resources for Teaching— “Kids at
Work” program.
Project SMART is a 20-year K-16 professional development
initiative that involves college community personnel
with area teachers to develop hands-on, inquiry-oriented,
equity-based teaching connected to the real world.
Project Coordinator Sue Witmer
’02 has engaged a team of teachers from
Oswego and Onondaga counties to work on this project.
Over the past two years, this dynamic group of educators
has worked to integrate math, science and technology
themes and activities like rocket launches, field excursions,
wind energy, forensics, simple machines, alternate energy
sources, global positioning systems (GPS), geo caching
and problem solving into the classroom for hundreds
of area school children.
New Haven Elementary School teacher Karen
Griffin ’79, M ’83 took a class of
beginning scientists to SUNY Oswego’s Rice Creek
Field Station April 20 for some springtime exploration.
With another year of funding, the “Kids at Work”
program will participate in SUNY Oswego’s Project
SMART Summer Institute, which will include up to 100
contributing teachers and guests from across New York
state.
In an effort to demonstrate its commitment to raising
community awareness of the need for math, science and
technology advancement in area schools, the Entergy
team will be reaching out to pre-service teachers on
the SUNY campus during the 2007-2008 academic year in
addition to working on new and continuing projects.
Entergy Corp., a $9 billion company, is the second-largest
nuclear generator in the United States delivering electricity
to 2.6 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas. |
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