Opportunities for Classrooms
Renewable Energy Alaska Project (REAP) has two classes scheduled so far this spring! Both are 1 credit through UAA and the $79 cost will be reimbursed when you successfully complete the course.
REAP is once again partnering with Alaska Project Learning Tree (PLT) to offer an asynchronous online “Clean Energy in Your Environment” Training for K-8 educators (other educators welcome however content is geared towards K-8). 1 continuing education credit through UAA, curriculum, and a kit of supplies are included in this course. Register by February 19 and complete course work by May 8.
Clean Energy Engineering: Online February 9th through April 5th. Prepare your 4th-12th grade students for the Clean Energy Olympics and receive wind kits to use in the classroom! Register now.
FIELD TRIPS AND OUTREACH PROGRAMS
Come visit the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center for a fun and engaging learning experience! We are currently booking field trips for the Spring 2023 school semester. The AWCC hosts hundreds of school children in the fall and spring from all over the State of Alaska. Our naturalist staff provides educational programming that captivates students with exciting facts and information about Alaska’s wildlife. Program descriptions are available on our website at https://alaskawildlife.org/education/field-trips-presentations/.
Can’t make it to AWCC in person? Join us for a virtual field trip. Our naturalist staff provides educational opportunities for students near and far. During a virtual field trip, students will be engaged by a walking tour of AWCC or a show and tell with one of our animal ambassadors. Students will learn new information about Alaskan wildlife and have an opportunity to ask our naturalist staff their questions in real time. Learn more about virtual field trip opportunities here https://alaskawildlife.org/visit/visit-awcc-virtually/.
Let the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center come to you! The AWCC education staff can visit your school or organization. Find information about the outreach programs that can travel to you on our website at https://alaskawildlife.org/education/outreach/.
KPBSD is sponsoring the first Indigenous Language Film Festival! Consider getting your classes, students and families involved!
KPBSD is also partnering with ASTE to take the film opportunity statewide! Check it out below!
The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2023 @ Midnight
From the website...
The Alaska Society for Technology in Education presents the 23rd Annual iDidaContest.
ASTE recognizes the best photos, movies, documentaries, podcasts, music, books, and things through its annual digital media contest.
Once again, ASTE has partnered with the Alaska Council for Social Studies to offer several Social Studies themed categories.
New this year, in conjunction with KPBSD Title VI, there will be an Indigenous Language iDidaMovie theme. Indigenous Language movies must be more than fifty percent in an Alaskan native language and include English subtitles.
MORE INFO ON THE WEBSITE HERE!
The deadline for submissions is January 31, 2023 @ Midnight
From the website...
The Eighth Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest is now open for submissions! Teachers, submit your students’ work through our Submission Portal.
We’re inviting poetry submissions from all US and international high school students, grades 9–12, to participate in our Eighth Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest! Is that you?
Contributing students in last year’s Seventh Annual Narrative High School Writing Contest covered the globe: indeed, we received submissions from twenty-eight countries, including South Africa, India, China, Serbia, Poland, and Taiwan. Within the United States, we heard from young poets in forty-one states and 298 cities and towns—an amazing outpouring of poetry. This year, we hope to hear from YOU!
MORE INFO ON THE WEBSITE HERE!
The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2023 @ 4:00 AST
Grant funds for learning experiences with Exxon Valdez oil spill region youth!
The request-for-proposals can be found here: https://www.pwsrcac.org/announcements/funds-available-for-educational-projects/
The deadline for proposals is November 18, 2022.
Contact PWSRCAC outreach coordinator Maia Draper-Reich with any questions at maia.draper-reich@pwsrcac.org
The Prince William Sound Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council (PWSRCAC) is inviting proposals for facilitating learning experiences with Exxon Valdez oil spill region youth. Youth in this case can include students from K-12 formal education, homeschool students, informal education programs, and either formal or informal college-level education. In the past, the PWSRCAC has also sponsored projects for teachers that benefit area youth.
Projects should result in better understanding of such topics as: citizens’ oversight, environmental impacts of the operation of the Alyeska Pipeline Service Company oil terminal in Valdez and the oil tankers that call there, oil spill prevention and response planning and operation, and/or other topics related to the Council’s mission.
Past and ongoing projects have included:
· Youth stewardship expeditions into the marine environment via sea kayak and other vessels
· Youth monitoring for aquatic invasive species
· Public oil spill science discovery labs
· Oil spill science and technology outreach
· Oil spill education website development
· K-12 oil spill curriculum writing and testing
· Travel funding for youth presenting oil spill projects at conferences
· Oral history projects related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill
· Other marine stewardship programs for students with an oil spill connection
Working with area youth is vital to fight complacency through educating new generations of citizens on the need for ongoing oil spill prevention.
Carrs Safeway Alaska Education Grant Program
Deadline to Apply is September 19th, 2022
Contact Person: Dominique Johnson with any questions at djohnson@alaskaacsa.org
*If you are awarded a grant, you must follow the procedure outlined below.
Grant/Donation Application Form
Any KPBSD staff that wants to apply for a grant (or receive a donation over $2000) needs to fill out the Grant Donation Application Form. This ensures that the district is aware of all money coming in, and ensures that principals are aware of what is occurring on their campus.
Procedure:
Complete the Grant Donation Application Form.
After the application is reviewed, the applicant will receive an e-mail approving the grant, or requesting more information.