Visiting the museum will give students hands-on experience and see firsthand the exhibits to help create a background and reinforce what they are learning in the classroom. In addition, this is an excellent opportunity for students who may need more means to visit a museum.

This project will allow Special Education and 504 students to engage in self-stimulating, gross motor, and/or fine motor activities to help increase the student's skills in all areas. This will also promote an efficient academic environment while regulating self-stimulating behaviors.

The grant will enhance student learning by implementing TEKS and research-based STEAM experiences, providing an innovative and engaging learning environment with arts integration for their 4th and 5th-grade students.

Students will experience virtual reality, augmented reality, and gamification. With ClassVR, students will be able to learn by taking part in an interactive experience with the Virtual Reality headsets that reach all types of learners (tactile, kinesthetic, visual, and auditory). 

Middle School Maker-STEAM Stations will encompass aspects of Makerspace and STEAM to invigorate the middle school library experience.

It will bring new, innovative hands-on learning opportunities for students through technology. Cosmo is a set of interactive and multi-sensory controllers (called Cosmoids) that work with the Cosmo apps. Cosmo offers an ever-growing selection of activities that motivate learners to develop motor, cognitive, math, science, and communication skills through play and music. 

This project will create a sensory-based learning environment where Boshears students will access musical instruments in an engaging setting designed to enhance the learning of musical concepts- high sound/low sound, loud/soft, fast/slow, and other vocabularies.

This grant will bring Makerspaces that help prepare students with critical 21st-century skills in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). These spaces will allow students to create and build projects with their own hands.

This project will support classroom lessons and foundational skills while in the library. 

The "Foundation Fun Zone" will engage students by helping stories come to life with interactive pieces and give a fun way for students to work on their foundational skills, such as colors, shapes, numbers, and letters.

All aboard the Literacy STEAM Station as it makes its way around campus, visiting classrooms and learning areas to bring a literacy connection at the beginning of lessons. The mobile Literacy STEAM Station will bring elements of science, technology, engineering, art, and math to students. 

This project will build the foundation of learning to love reading and love the library with their youngest patrons, their PPCD (Preschool Program for Children with Disabilities), and Pre-K students.

This grant will bring the Daily Math Fluency Centers Kit from Hand2mind for each grade level. The kits work on building number sense starting in kindergarten and going through 5th grade.

This grant will increase agricultural literacy by featuring 12 different crops and livestock and samples of these commodities and their by-products. They will utilize Be Ag Smart, which details the crops, livestock, and people who grow them. The Texas Farm Bureau developed the curriculum.

This Day at the Museum will provide a hands-on experience for students. The project will allow them to visit a science museum giving the students exposure to an educational environment that can add to their wealth of knowledge.

A decodable library that allows teachers to check out books to support their early literacy learners in small group reading instruction and during intervention. Bringing this new life into the literacy library will provide students and teachers with research-based resources that promotes quality instruction.

It will provide funds to assist in the growth of their after-school music program providing in-depth piano and percussion lessons to students in a 1:1 to 1:3 small group setting at no extra cost to Title I families, with the instructional focus tailored to their personal strengths and musical interests. Funds will provide instruments, equipment, and piano curriculum books needed for the lessons.

Happiness Hangouts are monthly meet-ups designed to equip students with the tools needed to develop skills and strategies for social-emotional health. Each month will focus on a specific topic. Students will learn strategies for dealing with a variety of topics and engaging in creative activities that they apply in their life. 

Enhance the STEAM lab's student learning experience by adding more Makerspace materials, flexible seating, and innovative projects. The additional materials will provide students with more opportunities to discover things that they are passionate about and expose them to a higher level of thinking in problem solving situations.

A few years ago, Owens won a Grant for Great Ideas called Future Ready Makerspace. It provided robotic, coding, and Makerspace items. Currently, it’s hosted in the library, where students have access during their library time. With 1:1 devices, they removed the old computers from the computer lab and transformed the space into a STEM, Makerspace, and Sensory lab all in one.

This will complete their STEM Project Based Community Center by purchasing STEM project-based learning kits (STEM in Action-Hands2mind). This community center will provide students with opportunities to construct new knowledge and develop problem solving skills introducing STEM project based learning activities while developing an interest in STEM careers. 

An adventure in literacy! Adults and students have loved the experience of The Literacy Bus during its multiple stops this year at campuses. Students can choose a book to take home, read a book while relaxing on the bus, and enjoy having books read to them by a volunteer. This grant will help extend learning by adding games, puzzles, alphabet activities, sensory toys, and an area rug for outdoor activities. 

The program teaches middle school girls what it means to be loved, worthy, and true to who they are. The goal is to create a club for any 6th-8th grade girl to attend once a month.

They will be getting ClassVR headsets to use in various ways. These virtual reality headsets will allow students to "become" a character in a story and create their own worlds that they write about.

Tyler Legacy students will learn to maintain and take responsibility for checking on the bees, feeding them, and making sure the hive boxes stay clean. They will even harvest the honey the bee hive boxes produce each spring and fall. Harvesting the honey will help sustain the future of beekeeping on campus.

A student organization will work with the Alternative Fuel Foundation by redesigning and rebuilding an engine optimized for ethanol-based fuels. The student organization requested funding to purchase the required components for the conversion and optimization process.

The Practical Application of Science Technology and Engineering (PASTE) initiative aims to connect STEM concepts across the curriculum through practical applications and project-based learning. The PASTE Engine Lab provides the required infrastructure to permit the assembly, modification, and testing of automotive and light industrial engines on campus.

This grant provides cameras and equipment for high school journalism, photojournalism, and yearbook students to work as communications and marketing engines (Campus Content Creators) for their campus through social media and website news. 

Gamification includes game design materials in non-game environments to increase user experience, motivation, and interest. They have been applying gamification to their Math classes and during Benchmark and STAAR reviews. The students loved it; it showed in their faces and test scores! Starting this school year, they will level it up and hopefully spread the virus of change to the whole Math department and across other disciplines or courses in their school. 

This will add an expansive literary element to all of their English classrooms. Teachers will be able to create small group instruction through literary circles.