The Cissna Park Education foundation Mini Grant program allowed for the purchase of a Student Response System in the high school science department. The students have enjoyed having a new “toy” to play with in class, and the instructor Brad Wacker has enjoyed having anew tool to monitor student understanding. The iClicker student response system […]
Summer School learns about wind
During summer school at Cissna Park Elementary School a total of 15 students, ranging in ages from 6 to twelve, were able to learn about wind with a windmill kit that was purchased through the gracious donation of funds from the Education Society. The windmill kit was used to explore the different uses of wind and […]
5th Grade Digital Projector
Since the winter break, the fifth graders and Mrs. Kollmann have been using a Dell 1210S projector. This projector Projector displays graphics and text in bright, high-contrast detail and has been incorporated with an Interwriter II Mobi to enhance note taking in science, diagramming sentences in English, building background information for stories in reading and […]
2nd Grade Learning Tools
Mrs. Denault’s second grade class was awarded a Classroom Mini Grant and purchased a Reader’s Theater Folk Tale set, a class pack of Judy Clocks, big magnetic money, and a subscription to the Daily Café website.
1st Grade Listening Center
The first grade class purchased a listening center with their 2012 Fall mini Grant. The listening center headphones allow multiple students to listen to the same audio without disturbing the rest of the class room. So far, the CD player has been used to listen to songs, stories, and poems as a class. It is […]
