From: Karen A. Mendelow (karenm@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 19 2001 - 15:06:15 PST
Message-Id: <l03130304b846cda26027@[192.174.3.212]> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:06:15 -0800 From: "Karen A. Mendelow" <karenm@exploratorium.edu> Subject: toyota tapestry grants
just passing this along in case someone might be interested.
This grant deadline is Jan. 17, 2002.
Toyota TAPESTRY Grants Enhanced - Now Two Levels of Funding
The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) recently announced
enhancements to the Toyota TAPESTRY grant program.
In addition to awarding 50 grants of $10,000 each to teachers so that
they can implement improved science teaching in their schools, 20
mini-grants of $2,500 each will be awarded this year.
"The mini-grants provide an excellent opportunity for less experienced
grant writers to take advantage of this great program," NSTA president
said in a statement. "The mini-grants can be used for smaller projects
that take less time to complete and have smaller budgets, so teachers with
various project sizes and levels of experience in grant writing are
encouraged to apply."
The TAPESTRY (Toyota Appreciation Program for Excellence to Science
Teachers Reaching Youth) program is funded by Toyota Motor Sales, USA
and administered by NSTA. Over the past 11 years, the program has
awarded nearly $4.5 million to 443 teams of teachers to implement creative
science teaching in their schools.
For both levels of grants, successful applicants will propose innovative
science projects that can be implemented in their school or school
district over a one-year period. Projects must demonstrate creativity,
involve risk-taking, possess a visionary quality and model a novel way of
presenting science.
Also new to the popular program this year is a new category in which
applicants can compete: science and literacy. Under this category,
projects that highlight techniques and practices that embed literary
strategies in inquiry-based science instruction and support improved
science achievement will be funded.
Teachers can also compete in previous categories: environmental education
that gives students an increased awareness of the terrestrial, aquatic
and/or atmospheric environment, and an understanding of their own
interdependence with the natural world; and physical science education
that relates to the laws, principles and concepts of science (physics and
chemistry) to phenomena and events relevant to students' lives.
Interested U.S. K-12 science teachers (those who spend at least 50
percent of their classroom time teaching science or teach a minimum of
two science classes per day) should send an application to NSTA by
January 17, 2002.
Contact: NSTA/Toyota TAPESTRY, 1840 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
22201-3000. Applications are available via fax at 888-400-6782 (request
document 591). Download an application, learn about previously funded
programs, or e-mail questions at: www.nsta.org/programs/tapestry
Karen Mendelow Nelson
Program Manager and Educator
Exploratorium Teacher Institute
3601 Lyon Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
karenm@exploratorium.edu
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