2024 Creative Classroom Grant Recipients

Students will create promotional items related to concepts learned in class, such as branding and licensing. Grant provides an automatic heat press and a stock of various types and/or sizes of merchandise suitable to transforming into promotional samples.

To create an accessible outdoor for students to have a place to participate fully in science, math, reading, daily living, communication , and social studies activities. This outdoor classroom will provide a space for our special education students to participate in various activities along with the general education students.

The glass program will provide students with hands-on experience in various glass techniques, including stained glass and fused glass. Through a combination of theoretical instruction and practical application, students will develop technical skills, creative problem-solving abilities, and an understanding of the historical and cultural significance of glass art.

To purchase a blood pressure and radial pulse simulator. This simulator will allow assessment of the students' ability to perform radial pulse measurements and manual blood pressure readings as well as provide real time feedback to help the student successfully perform the skill, which are common entry level skills required in the healthcare field.

To provide microscopes for Forbush Middle School 7th grade science students which provides hands-on opportunities for students to explore and understand microscopic organisms and structures, and fosters curiosity, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of scientific concepts. Currently students do not have access to this hands-on learning opportunity.

To purchase a washing machine and dryer for special education students to operate a “Care Closet” and launder donated clothes; thus ,learning and applying independent living skills as part of their curriculum and transition goals. Special education students will have practical application of extended content standards and provide a resource for others in need.

The Panther Sensory walk is a kit that provides a fun and vibrant walkway for students to explore new or different sensory experiences. The sensory walk will support children with sensory processing issues or help children develop motor skills, balance, hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness.

To purchase a type of living ecosystem with critters and organisms as a STEM activity that will help to foster critical thinking, problem-solving, and creativity. It will engage students in hands-on learning, sparking curiosity and promoting a love for exploration and science.

To fund materials to create a set of 26 unique costumes, each representing a different letter of the alphabet, for use in the first-grade classrooms. These costumes will serve as an innovative educational tool, enhancing literacy, phonics, and vocabulary instruction through interactive learning and play. The project will culminate with a Letterland parade in costume around our school.

To purchase costumes and props for students to use when dressing up as the characters in the Letterland phonics program. Letterland will come alive as students connect with the characters and their stories.

To purchase “The Day the Universe Exploded My Head” by Allan Wolf for each 3rd grade classroom and Elementary School Media Center in the county. Students will visit the Yadkin Arts Council and hear Allan Wolf perform and speak about writing. Students will create a model of the solar system and a class book of space poems using an online book publishing site. A copy of the poetry book will be purchased for each classroom and media center.