2019-2020 Innovator Grant Winners:
Innovator
Therese Brady-Tommie Kunst Junior High School, Santa Maria-Bonita School District
Who Am I?
Description: In this culminating project, students create an 8-slide presentation that gives clues such as where and when a famous person lived, their goals and what they were famous for without revealing the name of the famous person until the last slide. The presentation serves as a review of famous people that have been studied in the history curriculum wrapped up in a fun, game-like presentation called Who Am I?
Innovator
Anita Guizar-Diaz- Jimenez Elementary School, Santa Maria-Bonita School District
Reading, Speaking, and Writing about Early European Explorers with a Little Help from Technology!
Description: With the help of technology, this project connects language to content, so that language instruction is not disconnected from what happens during social studies instruction in the homeroom classroom. In the following lessons, students will be reading, listening, speaking, and writing about the early European explorer, Christopher Columbus.
Innovator
Jeanet Herrera- Jimenez Elementary School, Santa Maria-Bonita School District
Students CAN be Authors too: Early European Explorers & Book Creator
Description: Through these lessons, students will work in collaborative groups to learn about an early European Explorer. Students will share what they have learned by creating an informational book with Book Creator.
Innovator
Alicia Sage- Fesler Junior High School, Santa Maria-Bonita School District
NaNoWriMo and Me: Marketing and Publishing a Self-Written Novel
Description: For the past two years, my students have been participating in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November by writing a novel with a story they create, while also completing a novel study as a model for their own work. This year, to make the project more engaging, students created a marketing package for their novel, as well as created a publishing house to decide what marketing packages were the best.
2019-2020 Ready-Set-Tech Grant Winners:
Ready-Set-Tech
Nicole Brady- Ontiveros School, Santa Maria-Bonita School District
Athens vs Sparta!
Description: In ancient Greek times, would you rather have been an Athenian or a Spartan? Athens vs. Sparta! invites students to think about and answer this question by creating a poster to advertise either Athens or Sparta’s strengths by closely examining elements of civilization to convince an audience to live there.
Ready-Set-Tech
Jason Naczek- Santa Ynez Valley Charter School, College School District
Literary Device Power Point Presentation
Description: The Literary Device Power Point Presentation is a fun, flipped classroom mini-project where students teach each other about various literary devices. Students use two teacher-selected, reliable websites to gain an understanding of and create a Google Slide Power Point Presentation about selected literary devices.
Ready-Set-Tech
Anna Silva- Goleta Valley Junior High School, Santa Barbara Unified School District
Here's Journey Podcasts
Description: Students read a variety of “hero’s journey” books in groups (as book clubs). After reading the book and meeting several times to discuss it, they create podcasts in which they review the book and explain whether or not it meets the criteria of a hero’s journey as established by Joseph Campbell’s Hero with a Thousand Faces.
Ready-Set-Tech
Tracy Womack- La Colina Junior High School, Santa Barbara Unified School District
Andy's Coming!
Description: The beginning coding/robotics class is designed to be the first coding/robotics class a student will take. The robotics portion of the class is designed to put robots into the hands of students who have not had the opportunity to use them. It is intentionally created to offer equity to students who may not have had the chance to explore robotics previously
