Creating Healthy Hearts | Animal Studies Grant | Virtual Business Management Program

Small Grant Program in Action

Creating Healthy Hearts

The Creating Healthy Hearts project, developed by Melissa Ohngren, South Lake High School, and Jill Riedel, South Lake Middle School, supplies heart rate monitors to 7th - 12th grade students, providing feedback on the intensity of their physical activity in sports and general exercise. These monitors give students valuable information to achieve cardiovascular fitness. The goal of the project is to teach students the value of a healthy lifestyle. The 2006-2007 school year marks the second year that students are benefiting from the monitors.


		Photos: Jeri Griffin Buboltz

Animal Studies Grant

The Animal Studies Grant, under the direction of Laurie Wood, Avalon Elementary, will enable second grade students to take virtual field trips from "All Aboard the Learning Express," created by several zoological parks. Highlights include learning about the Arctic and Antarctica, following a dog sled team in the Iditarod, and gaining hands-on experience dissecting owl pellets and reassembling the remains of their prey, among other activities.

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Photos: Jeri Griffin Buboltz

Virtual Business Management Program

Teacher Jason Kasparian, South Lake High School, will help his students develop and manage their own virtual company in the Virtual Business Management Program. Students will face the realities of business management, make critical business decisions and evaluate those decisions. Thirty lifetime computer lab licenses ensure that this program will have a far-reaching impact on South Lake students for years to come.

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Photos: Jason Kasparian