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Application Process - It's simple to apply:
Section 1 – Contact Info:
Please help us stay in touch by supplying school and direct contact info. Please consider sharing contact info for your peers so they can apply as well. You will receive a password and personal link to your application after your contact info is received. From that point you submit the sections of your grant, as they become ready, and at your own pace, up until our deadline of Nov. 12th for completed applications.
Section 2 – Narrative:
Please use our online submission form. Use approximately 2 pages of text for this section (~6600 characters, in 12 point, single-spaced, typed test, with 1" margins). The online form will accept a fixed amount of text. Your narrative should focus on the following 2 areas. Please use the following questions to fin-tune your narrative.
1. Design:
Describe your lesson plan based on this project design. The project should include the following:
- A visit from a scientist to talk about local water sources and concerns and age appropriate conservation actions the students can take at home and school. The curricula for the classroom portion would be planned out with the Department of Environmental Education and focus on math and science requirements.
- The second part would be the hands-on study and analysis of a local creek, stream, pond, or any local water source, using testing materials. Students would prepare reports on their research they would present to other classes in their school, their principal, their parents or even community leaders.
- The third portion is where the students take what they have learned home "on assignment". They will give their parents a quiz about water saving steps that can be taken at home, as well as facts about water sources in North Carolina they have learned at school.
- The fourth portion of the project is the reports prepared by the teachers, with their students, about the impacts of their project...how much water conserved, how water was conserved, water quality, how many people touched. These reports with pictures could be shared with other schools, PTA, and community groups to spread these programs throughout the state.
2. Project Evaluation:
Identify other project personnel, their roles and responsibilities, their position in school or community and how these individuals will help ensure project success and sustainability. Feel free to include a bio (as a part of your supporting documents) that show the knowledge or innovative thinking that key project personnel could contribute to the success of your project.
Section 3 – Budget:
Please include a line item budget detailing materials (e.g. water testing kits, etc.) you will need and other expenses you expect to incur. This should be no longer than 1 page. All expenditures must be receipted and documented. All unexpended funds for the grant duration must be returned with the final report.
Section 4 – Commitment letter:
Please print out the Commitment Letter from our online application to be signed by the applicant and school principal. Please scan and upload as a .jpg or .pdf attachment. Or you may fax it into our office. Receipt of this letter completes the required portion of the grant submission process, but you have until Nov. 12th to supply supporting information which you think will assist our reviewers to better understand your project.
Section 5 – Supporting documents:
Using our online service, please feel free to submit (optional) .jpg or .pdf files with drawings, photos and letters of support from your fellow teachers or community partners. In order to keep the amount of info judged by reviewers to a manageable level, please understand that we can accept only one .jpg/pdf for each of these subjects. The size of the files are limited to <300kb each.
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