BCScTA Roots Grant

What question about teaching science do you have? If you could get an answer to that question, how would it improve your teaching practice?

The BCScTA is pleased to offer the Roots Grant to help you get an answer for your question. Do you need time to collaborate with others, or attend a conference, or bring in a specialist to do some training? Are you looking for resources or expertise in an area of science teaching? With funding up to $2500 the Roots Grant can provide financial assistance in your quest to become a better teacher. The only requirement is that you agree to share the results of your project or quest with others at a future Catalyst conference.

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Please Note: The Roots Grant cannot be used to buy equipment, supplies, chemicals, or other materials that would be used directly in a classroom by students.

Hear From Past Recipients

Examples of past Roots Grant projects

A group of BCScTA members used a book study with the intent of developing more inquiry opportunities for students in kindergarten, Grade 1 and Grade 5. Members anchored their inquiry with Totem Pole Carving by Vickie Jensen. Using the concepts and ideas in Jensen’s book, the project team connected students to a better understanding of place and their environment through an indigenous lens. Students built an understanding of the importance of cedar trees to Salish communities and culture. Essential questions for these grades were created to inspire and guide students in their inquiry of First Nation scientific concepts and relating them to establishing a richer understanding of scientific competencies and ecological interconnectedness.

A secondary science department found that they have had little time to implement meaningful and thoughtful ways to address and assess the curricular competencies at the Grade 8 and 9 levels. This very collaborative science department plans to use release time to create useful resources that they will use collectively as a whole. They are working towards creating meaningful and useful assessment tools, such as rubrics, of those curricular competencies. The assessment tools are meant to be customized and used with all labs and inquiry activities that students already perform. Further to the assessment tools, they are planning on looking at the new resources available for inquiry activities and build those into their repertoires and pair them with the correct assessment tools.

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