1997: Elementary Science Project Kits (EL-SCI) Grades K-6

Excerpt from Fall 1997 Poland Schools Foundation Newsletter...

The Trustees of the Poland Schools Foundation for Educational Excellence have announced that the major project for 1997-1998 will have a continued emphasis on science in the Poland Schools, with the acceptance of a science proposal from the Elementry Schools. The next logical step following the completion of the Technological Advanced Science Laborartory at the Middle School and the opening of the 1996 school year with a new high school science lab is to upgrade the Elementary Science Program. This project will enrich the elementary science experience and prepare young students for the upgraded Middle School Laborartory environment.

The Poland 5th and 6th grade science teachers, K-4 elementary teachers, and administrators have prepared recommendations for the purchase of new science textbooks for use beginning in the 1997-1998 school year. The new textbooks will be purchased by the Poland Board of Education as part of the regular ongoing upgrade of textbooks. The Foundation will provide CD-ROM software and the supplemental science kits will enhance the instruction of Life Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Physical Sciences, which are major components of the elementary science cirriculum.

As elementary schools are constructed without science labs, the CD-ROM software and supplemental kids will provide materials for fundamental "hands-on" experience rather than just teaching out of a text, which is commonly the case in most elementaries. Such an enhancement not only will upgrade the teaching of science in the elementary grades K-6, but also will better prepare the elementary for the high tech computerized science lab they will use at the Middle School. The project is consisent with Goals 2000 proposed nationally by the Federal Government to make the United States the first in science and mathematics by the year 2000.

The total cost of the elementary "EL-SCI" project will be in excess of $30,000.

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